What is it about the fire? So calm and peaceful but inside, all power and destruction. It´s hiding something. Just like people do. Sometimes you have to get close to find out what´s inside. Sometimes you have to get burned to see the truth.

Tekkonkinkreet

2006 111m 2.35:1

a STUDIO4°C film directed by Michael Arias voices by Kazunari Ninomiya / Yū Aoi / Yusuke Iseya / Masahiro Motoki / Min Tanaka screenplay by Anthony Weintraub based on the manga by Taiyō Matsumoto animation supervisor and character design Shojiro Nishimi art director Shinji Kimura co-director Hiroaki Andō animation supervisors Chie Uratani and Masahiko Kubo computer graphics supervisor Takuma Sakamoto music by Plaid sound design Mitch Osias

Selected Awards and Honors

2008 Japan Academy Prize for Best Feature Animation
57th Berlin International Film Festival Generation 14plus and Best First Feature nominations
40th Sitges Film Festival—Gertie Award Jury Special Mention
Anima 2008 festival in Brussels, Belgium—Gran Prix
2007 Fantasia International Film Festival—Golden Prize for Best Animated / Stop Motion Film
31st Hong Kong International Film Festival—Animation Unlimited screening
2007 Deauville Asian Film Festival—Panorama Selection
2007 Nippon Connection Film Festival in Frankfurt, Germany
2007 Camera Japan Festival in Holland
2006 Mainichi Film Concours Noburō Ōfuji award for excellence in animation
2010 Nippon Connection Film Festival in Frankfurt, Germany—Nippon Cinema program
2008 Future Film Festival in Bologna, Italy—Lancia Platinum Grand Prize Special Mention
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)—North American Premiere (April 25, 2007)
Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF)—World Premiere (October 21, 2006)

Tekkonkinkreet, for all its architecturally grimy virtuosity and flourishes of anime cool, remains the story of a damaged city that can still point to one mighty example of brotherly love.

— Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times

By the end of this phantasmagorical journey, I was as wrapped up in the precarious fate of these two wounded kids and the honorable yakuza warlords of Treasure Town as I've been in any film all year.

— Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com