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49-454: The anime film's premise involves an advanced robot police squad trying to recover a hijacked prototype tank. The film is an early anime presentation for a slightly older audience, at a time when there wasn't much competition and before the clichés were established for this genre of action. The anime was made during the Cold War and so the tank was hijacked from a futuristic cargo plane and

98-473: A music engraver and arranger. He has been associated with director and animator Hayao Miyazaki since 1984, having written scores for all but one of Miyazaki's films. He is also recognized for his music for filmmaker 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano , including A Scene at the Sea (1991), Sonatine (1993), Kids Return (1996), Hana-bi (1997), Kikujiro (1999), Brother (2000), and Dolls (2002), and for

147-584: A Shellfish ( 私は貝になりたい , Watashi wa Kai ni Naritai ) , a post- World War II war-crime trial drama, based on the 1959 Tetsutaro Kato novel and film currently being remade and directed by Katsuo Fukuzawa, starring Masahiro Nakai and Yukie Nakama . In August 2008, he arranged, performed in, conducted, and played piano in a concert with the World Dream Symphony Orchestra to observe his 25 years of collaboration with director Hayao Miyazaki. Featuring over 1200 musicians, it sold out

196-720: A certain way, or dismiss dissent. However, some people repeat them, even to themselves, out of habit or conditioning , or as a defense mechanism to reaffirm a confirmation bias . Joe Hisaishi Mamoru Fujisawa ( Japanese : 藤澤 守 , Hepburn : Fujisawa Mamoru , born December 6, 1950) , known professionally as Joe Hisaishi ( 久石 譲 , Hisaishi Jō ) , is a Japanese composer , musical director , conductor and pianist , known for over 100 film scores and solo albums dating back to 1981. Hisaishi's music has been known to explore and incorporate different genres, including minimalist , experimental electronic , Western classical , and Japanese classical . He has also worked as

245-554: A chase of a hijacked MBT-99A tank , designed by the United States Air Force . The hijackers, who appear inside the tank after getting away from a recently committed bank robbery, were hired by a shadowy group backed by a foreign nation seeking an edge in their military. The tank carries six ATGM launchers, three to each side of the turret, and a laser-based machine-gun-esque installment, in addition to its rifled main gun. The tank's treads are dual-mounted (the tread

294-401: A computer has to be trained to do everything. Ken's, Blader, is blue and white and equipped with a projectile handcuff, much like C.O.P.S.' LongArm . Eleanor's, Scanny, is red and has a female figure, but whose face is composed entirely of blinking LEDs, and which has two cables streaming from the neck, and which plug into computer sockets. Gora's robot, Vigobus, is bigger, and is stronger than

343-554: A culture's folk wisdom and are tempting to say because they sound true or good or like the right thing to say. Some examples are: "Stop thinking so much", "here we go again", and "so what, what effect do my [individual] actions have?" The term was popularized by psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton in his 1961 book, Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of "Brainwashing" in China . Lifton wrote, "The language of

392-523: A mock comic-book-on-video format. Both issues were released in 1983. The American market would not get to see Blader (now known as just Blade) in action until 1987 when Techno Police found its way to the shelves thanks to Celebrity's Just For Kids label ( Battle for Earth Station S/1 , Revenge of the Ninja Warrior ), and later from Best Film and Video. The Best Film and Video version is slightly less edited, featuring some mild swearing. Outside of

441-660: A music engraver. In 1974 Hisaishi wrote music for the anime series Gyatoruzu , and composed some of his other early works, under his given name. He also composed for Sasuga no Sarutobi (Academy of Ninja) and Futari Daka (A Full Throttle). In the 1970s, Hisaishi's compositions were influenced by Japanese popular music , electronic music and New Age music , and by the Japanese electronic band Yellow Magic Orchestra . He developed his music from minimalist ideas and expanded toward orchestral work. Around 1975, he presented his first public performance. His first album, MKWAJU ,

490-415: A rose was a poet, the second, an imbecile." A cliché is often a vivid depiction of an abstraction that relies upon analogy or exaggeration for effect, often drawn from everyday experience. Used sparingly, it may succeed, but the use of a cliché in writing, speech, or argument is generally considered a mark of inexperience or a lack of originality. The word cliché is borrowed from French , where it

539-566: A series of popular animated educational films about the human body produced by NHK and the score for the Takeshi Kitano film Kikujiro , whose title track Summer became one of his most recognized compositions. In 2001, Hisaishi produced music for another Kitano film, Brother , and Hayao Miyazaki's animated film Spirited Away . The opening theme to this film, One Summer's Day , had great popularity, with over 62 million Spotify streams as of March 2024. He also executive-produced

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588-450: Is a past passive participle of clicher , 'to click', used as a noun; cliché is attested from 1825 and originated in the printing trades. The term cliché was adopted as printers' jargon to refer to a stereotype , electrotype, cast plate or block print that could reproduce type or images repeatedly. It has been suggested that the word originated from the clicking sound in "dabbed" printing (a particular form of stereotyping in which

637-404: Is a saying, idea, or element of an artistic work that has become overused to the point of losing its original meaning, novelty, or figurative or artistic power, even to the point of now being bland or uninteresting. In phraseology , the term has taken on a more technical meaning, referring to an expression imposed by conventionalized linguistic usage . The term, which is typically pejorative,

686-618: Is blue; when Eleanor starts to drive it back, everything on screen is red. Another scene towards the beginning has the Techno Police headquarters in blue. Set at the start of the 21st century, its main character is Ken, a motorcycle-mounted highway patrolman in what is presumably the American Southwest , who is called to join the police force in Centinel City (the name comes from centennial, not sentinel), where he

735-484: Is often used in modern culture for an action or idea that is expected or predictable, based on a prior event. Clichés may or may not be true. Some are stereotypes , but some are simply truisms and facts . Clichés often are employed for comedic effect, typically in fiction. Most phrases now considered clichéd originally were regarded as striking but have lost their force through overuse. The French poet Gérard de Nerval once said, "The first man who compared woman to

784-404: Is only expected to last six months. He can be described as flighty, although as the movie progresses, he gets more serious. He is also known to wreck his motorcycles frequently in pursuit of criminals; he is shown in the beginning of the movie leaping from one onto a truck, and as the movie proper opens, his cycle is yet again trashed, barely making it to the station. An African American partner eyes

833-632: Is split in half, making four sets of treads for the tank). Another tank involved is the MBT-90D, which are dispatched by the Army to take out the tank. Despite having at least a platoon of these, the MBT-99 still evades capture. The M-90Ds are armed with a three-barreled autocannon, three ATGM missile launchers and a main cannon, mounted on the front instead of on a turret. The MBT-99's hijackers are forced out by Ken and his team. Eleanor then enters to study

882-857: The Palais des Congrès de Paris . In May 2018, Hisaishi performed five sold-out concerts in his North American debut in California, US, at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts with Symphony Silicon Valley . He also wrote the soundtrack for the TBS Nichiyō Gekijō drama In This Corner of the World . On February 21, 2020, the album Dream Songs: The Essential Joe Hisaishi was released through Decca Gold , featuring 28 compositions from Hisaishi's career. On February 19, 2021,

931-558: The English speaking world unedited video versions of Technopolice 21C were seen in France, Germany and Spain with a theatrical run in Cuba, which were dubbed using the English dub. In Bulgaria, the movie received two separate VHS releases, one by Bulgarian Video in 1989 and a re-issue with alternate cover art by Multi Video Center a few years later, both featuring the English dubbed version of

980-680: The Impossible . On June 28, 2013, Hisaishi was among those invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , recognizing people "who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures." In 2016, Hisaishi was appointed art director of the Nagano City Art Museum. In 2017, he gave three concerts in Paris, similar to his 25-year Ghibli collaboration anniversary concert, performed in

1029-847: The Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award Music Prize for Howl's Moving Castle (2005); and the International Film Music Critics Association Award for Television Division Best Original Score Award (for the Korean drama Queen Shikigami ) (2008). In November 2009, he received the Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon from the Government of Japan . In November 2023, he received the Order of

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1078-519: The Magic Angel: Curtain Call (1986), and Kimagure Orange Road: The Movie (1988). Hisaishi also developed a solo career, began to produce music. In 1989, he released his first solo album Pretender , on his new Wonder Land Inc. label. In 1998, Hisaishi provided the soundtrack to the 1998 Winter Paralympics . The next year, he composed the music for the third installment of The Universe Within (NHK スペシャル 驚異の小宇宙 人体III 遺伝子 ) ,

1127-1079: The Night Fantasia 4 Movement at the Japan Expo in Fukushima 2001. On October 6, he debuted as a film director in Quartet , having also written its music and script; it received excellent reviews at the Montreal World Film Festival . His first soundtrack for a foreign film, Le Petit Poucet , was released the same year. Miyazaki film Howl's Moving Castle was released on November 20, 2004, in Japan. Its main theme, Merry-Go-Round , became Hisaishi's most commercially successful movie score, with over 87 million Spotify streams as of March 2024. From November 3 to 29, 2004, Hisaishi embarked on his "Joe Hisaishi Freedom – Piano Stories 2004" tour with Canadian musicians. In 2005, he composed

1176-656: The Sky for Miyazaki's newly established Studio Ghibli ; then in the 1990s, scored the Ghibli films Porco Rosso and Princess Mononoke . Hisaishi's compositions (including eight theatrical films and one OVA ) become well-known as a style associated with early anime. He also composed for such TV and movie hits as Sasuga no Sarutobi , Two Down Full Base , Tonde Mon Pe and the anime Tekuno porisu 21C (all 1982), Oz no mahôtsukai (1982), Sasuraiger (1983), Futari Taka (1984), and Honō no Alpen Rose (1985). He also scored

1225-471: The Superpower , Leda: The fantastic Adventure of Yohko and Macross: Do you remember love? ). The company responsible for the commissioning this new English track is unknown, they also made a few changes to the movie, moving the title card to the very start and pausing the individual shots of the opening credits to remove the Japanese text without shortening the running time or messing with the music. Also

1274-417: The adjective. Thought-terminating clichés, also known as thought-stoppers, or semantic stopsigns, are words or phrases that discourage critical thought and meaningful discussion about a given topic. They are typically short, generic truisms that offer seemingly simple answers to complex questions or that distract attention away from other lines of thought. They are often sayings that have been embedded in

1323-604: The album in a live concert. The next year, Hisaishi composed and recorded the soundtrack for Frederic Lepage 's film Sunny and the Elephant , and for Miyazaki's film Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (both released in 2008), and the score for Jiang Wen 's film The Sun Also Rises (太阳照常升起). In 2008, Hisaishi composed soundtracks for the Academy Award-winning film Departures. He also scored I'd Rather Be

1372-416: The bike, and inquires "how many that is." Ken shrugs, and replies that it might be the sixth that month. Ken's team consists of a woman named Eleanor and a husky male named Gora Kosaka (whom, to the Japanese audience, has a feminine name) and who grows flowers. Each has a robot to direct for police work—not a Giant Robot that they would control from inside, but a robot that is crudely presented as stupid, as

1421-406: The block was impressed into a bath of molten type-metal to form a matrix). Through this onomatopoeia , cliché came to mean a ready-made, oft-repeated phrase. Various dictionaries recognize a derived adjective clichéd , with the same meaning. Cliché is sometimes used as an adjective, although some dictionaries do not recognize it as such, listing the word only as a noun and clichéd as

1470-587: The costs, the existing footage was compiled into an 80-minute movie and distributed by Toho. Set in a futuristic 2021 in the Hi-Tech yet violent and crime filled metropolis of Centinel City. A reckless young traffic officer Kyosuke (Ken) is hand picked by for a special assignment far from his countryside home. He was chosen to become one of the first officers of a newly created arm of the SCPD, one which uses robotic assistants, known as Technoids, to give them an edge over

1519-428: The criminals. Together with his robot Blader and fellow Technopolice members Kosuga (Gora) (accompanied by the super strong Technoid Vigorus) and Eleanor (with the computer hacking female robot Scanny) Kyosuke take on the well equipped criminals that plague the city, including a runaway, prototype military tank. Of the staff that worked on the aborted TV show two are most notable. The first is Joe Hisaishi , who provides

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1568-900: The end credits are missing entirely but otherwise the content of the movie itself is unchanged. This English language version was released on video in the UK by Mountain Video ( Frankenstein , Dracula , Mazinger Z ) under the slightly shorter title Techno Police . With the advent of the 1984 Video Recordings Act the video was withdrawn from shelves and disappeared into obscurity never to be re-released. Re-edited and redubbed scenes from Techno Police also appeared in Mountain Video's obscure Flash! No.1 Video Comic and its spin-off Flash! Robot Issue . These two tapes, released on VHS, Betamax and V-2000, were intended to advertise their collection of children's by collecting short clips of them together in

1617-528: The film Soul Snatcher (赤狐书生)'s soundtrack album Red Fox Scholar (Original Soundtrack) was digitally released, with 34 compositions ranging from 25 seconds to nearly five minutes in length. In 2022, Hisaishi worked on the Royal Shakespeare Company theatre production of My Neighbour Totoro . On March 30, 2023, Hisaishi signed an exclusive recording agreement with Deutsche Grammophon , even though he released several recordings on

1666-529: The film with Bulgarian subtitles. In 1994/5 Techno Police was re-released by Best Film & Video Co on NTSC VHS to cash in on the popular rise in anime and cyberpunk with OAVs such as Bubblegum Crisis , Appleseed , Dangaioh , Patlabor , AD Police , Armitage 3 and Cyber City Oedo 808 . Release Date: April 15, 1995; run time: 80 minutes; ASIN: 6303388019. Clich%C3%A9 A cliché ( UK : / ˈ k l iː ʃ eɪ / or US : / k l iː ˈ ʃ eɪ / ; French: [kliʃe] )

1715-424: The idea into a TV series as a co-production between Artmic (then Wiz Corporation) and Studio Nue. The technology to be featured in the series was heavily researched with the intention of making the future as believable as possible. Unfortunately, the project hit problems. After 4 years in development there was only enough animation produced for a single episode. The series was scrapped and, in order to recover some of

1764-619: The label previously. Hisaishi composed the soundtrack for the film Silent Love , released on January 26, 2024. Hisaishi has won numerous awards, including seven Japanese Academy Awards for Best Music (1992, 1993, 1994, 1999, 2000, 2009, and 2011 ); the Newcomer Award from the Ministry of Education (Public Entertainment Section) (1997); the Art Choice Award for New Artist (Popular Performing Arts Division) (1998);

1813-453: The movie on both VHS and Laserdisc. Undeterred by Technopolice's failure Toshimichi Suzuki returned to his original idea, some years later reworking it as the OAV series Bubblegum Crisis , which fared slightly better but in the end suffered a similar fate. In 1983 Technopolice 21C was dubbed by those ubiquitous Hong Kong kung fu voice actors (see also Battle For Moon Station Dallos , Locke

1862-469: The other two (at one point in the movie, it lifts the tank that the anime is built around, and keeps it immobile for several minutes with some strain; it lets go only when the tank becomes active again). These robots ride in the back of a large, six-wheeled, roofless police car which is red and white. A trailer is attached to pull along Gora's robot. Ken sits in the middle to drive it; Eleanor on his right and his other partner on his left. The plot consists of

1911-532: The proposed TV show, had produced a number of tie-in plastic kits of Technopolice's vehicles and robots, including a few designs which never animated. These were still released, in hopes to make money from the movie instead. As well as 1/16 scale kits of the Techroids and 1/48 kits of the Mazurka, Temjin and Roadranger other items of merchandising included a soundtrack, on LP and cassette and the eventual release of

1960-793: The sci-fi adventure series Mospeada (1983). Other films he scored included Mobile Suit Gundam Movie II: Soldiers of Sorrow (1981), Mobile Suit Gundam Movie III: Encounters in Space , (1982), Birth (Bâsu) (1984), Arion (1986), Robot Carnival (1987), Totoro (1988), Crest of the Royal Family (1988), Venus Wars (1989), Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) and Ocean Heaven (2010). He also did theme-song arrangements and composed other anime opening, closing, and insert title theme songs such as Mahō Shōjo Lalabel (1980), Hello! Sandybell (1981), Meiken Jolie (1981), Voltron (1981), Ai Shite Knight (1983), Creamy Mami,

2009-600: The soundtrack for the Korean film Welcome to Dongmakgol ( 웰컴 투 동막골 ), and participated in Korea's MBC drama series The Legend ( 태왕사신기 "The Story of the First King's Four Gods"), released in 2007. In 2006, Hisaishi released his studio album Asian X.T.C. , characterized by a significantly eclectic and contemporary Eastern style. Zhan Li Jun, the erhu player of the Chinese band 12 Girls Band , featured music from

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2058-461: The synth-jazz score and is well known in the west for having created the score for nearly all Hayao Miyazaki movies including Spirited Away , Princess Mononoke and Nausicaa and Takeshi Kitano's (Sonatine, Hana-bi, Brother). Working as part of the animation staff is Shoji Kawamori who is now famous for his mecha designs particularly on the seminal Super Dimension Fortress Macross . Scale model kit company Aoshima , in anticipation of

2107-428: The tank, and it starts up on its own, having been programmed by the hijackers to head for a pier and drive off its end so as to rendezvous with an enemy submarine. The rest of the movie is made up of the chase through the city, resulting in the destruction of another bank and various collateral damage. Techno Police 21C started out life in 1978 as an idea from Artmic founder Toshimichi Suzuki. Work began on developing

2156-402: The totalist environment is characterized by the thought-terminating cliché. The most far-reaching and complex of human problems are compressed into brief, highly reductive, definitive-sounding phrases, easily memorized and easily expressed. These become the start and finish of any ideological analysis". Sometimes they are used in a deliberate attempt to shut down debate, manipulate others to think

2205-648: The video game series Ni no Kuni . He was a student of anime composer Takeo Watanabe . Hisaishi was born in Nakano, Nagano , Japan, as Mamoru Fujisawa ( 藤澤 守 , Fujisawa Mamoru ) . He started learning the violin at the age of four using the Suzuki method , and began watching hundreds of movies each year with his father. He attended the Kunitachi College of Music in 1969, where he majored in music composition , and collaborated with minimalist artists as

2254-620: The world-famous Budokan . In 2009, Hisaishi released a solo album featuring tracks from Shellfish and Departures . In 2010, he became an invited professor at the Japanese National College of Music. In 2013, he composed the score for the NHK wildlife documentary Legends of the Deep: Giant Squid ( 世界初撮影! 深海の超巨大イカ ) , narrated by David Attenborough , for BBC's Natural World special Giant Squid: Filming

2303-430: Was designed to withstand a neutron bomb attack, even if its crew would be killed by that weapon, for the tank was computerized to continue to fight on its own. When out of ammunition, the robot tank would automatically explode. One point which marks the animation studio of this film is that to save money there are many scenes which are monochromatic . When the hijackers are in the vehicle they stole, everything on screen

2352-552: Was recommended by Tokuma , who had published Information , to create an image album for Hayao Miyazaki's animated film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind . It was the first of many of Miyazaki's films Hisaishi would score. (Their collaboration has been compared to that of director Steven Spielberg and composer John Williams . ) In 1985, Hisaishi founded his own recording studio, Wonder Station. In 1986, he scored Laputa: Castle in

2401-464: Was released in 1981; his second, the electropop-minimalist Information , was released a year later. His first major anime scores were for Hajime Ningen Gyatoruz (1974) and Robokko Beeton (1976). As he became better known, Hisaishi formulated an alias inspired by American musician and composer Quincy Jones : "Quincy", pronounced "Kuinshī" in Japanese, can be written using the same kanji in "Hisaishi"; and "Joe" came from "Jones". In 1983, Hisaishi

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