| Title: | Hashire Melos!
Run Melos!
走れメロス!
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1992, Adventure, Drama, Historical, Movie
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Animation - Toei
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We are in Sicilia at the times of Magna Grecia. Melos is a good boy from Messina and has come to Siracusa, the magnificent city of temples, to buy a ritual sword for his sister's marriage ceremony. He meets a very talented sculptor and they become friends. After a while king's guardians arrest Melos, while he was having a walk in the castle's gardens and Siracusa's king, obsessed by the idea of anybody willing to kill him, sentence him to death. Melos is desperate, but most of all he wants to be present at his sister's ceremony, so he asks the king three more days to go to Messina for the celebration and then turning back to Siracusa where he will accept the death penalty. The king does not trust him, but, trying to demonstrate that nobody could trust him, asks him to find a volunteer substitute in case he'd escaped. The sculptor friend accept to be Melos' substitute in this case...
(Summary Courtesy of Anime News Network)
105-minute film that premiered on July 25, 1992.
Animated by Toei Animation. |
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We are in Sicilia at the times of Magna Grecia. Melos is a good boy from Messina and has come to Siracusa, the magnificent city of temples, to buy a ritual sword for his sister's marriage ceremony. He meets a very talented sculptor and they become friends. After a while king's guardians arrest Melos, while he was having a walk in the castle's gardens and Siracusa's king, obsessed by the idea of anybody willing to kill him, sentence him to death. Melos is desperate, but most of all he wants to be present at his sister's ceremony, so he asks the king three more days to go to Messina for the celebration and then turning back to Siracusa where he will accept the death penalty. The king does not trust him, but, trying to demonstrate that nobody could trust him, asks him to find a volunteer substitute in case he'd escaped. The sculptor friend accept to be Melos' substitute in this case...
(Summary Courtesy of Anime News Network)
105-minute film that premiered on July 25, 1992.
Animated by Toei Animation.
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Hashire Melos!
Run Melos is an animated adaptation of the famous 20th century Osamu Dazai Japanese novel focused on a Greek shephard named Menos who is sentenced to death by a mistrusting and tyrannical ruler for wrongly being suspected of planning to assassinate him, yet arranges a deal where a sculptor named Serinentius would take his place for the death sentence if he doesn't return in three days time from attending his sister's wedding. The whole idea of the film is being trustful of others with Melos and Dionysius serving as opposites to exploring this moral. While Melos is willing to trust others in aiding him in his plight, Dionysius is mistrustful of others due to fearing for his own life. The reactions both receive from others in response to their actions in the situation lead them to receive acceptance and detesting from others respectively as a result. The 105-minute runtime of the film is a good enough length to explore Melos' struggles to keep his promise to Serinentius and his character is fleshed out enough where viewers can relate to him. It's fairly straightforward as an aesop film, and one that could interest fans of Japanese literature or those looking for something a bit different for an anime.
Last updated Friday, April 13 2018. Created Friday, April 13 2018.
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