Anime Like A Day after a Hundred Years
A man wakes up a century later and immediately everything goes wrong. The film treats a literal impossible premise, a resurrected spirit piloting a Mars ship toward Buddhist enlightenment, like a logical problem to solve rather than a philosophical statement, which means it stays loose and genuinely fun instead of pretentious. Nobody remembers this one exists, but the audacity of a director using himself as his own protagonist across a hundred years of history, mixing real footage with speculative sci-fi, deserves at least one afternoon of your time.
SYNOPSIS
Mr. Ogino was supposed to die in war, but science yanks his spirit back into a world he no longer recognizes. A century has passed. It's 2032 now, and one of his descendants walks this strange future with him, showing him how much humanity has changed. When they board a ship bound for Mars, something goes terribly wrong. The vessel lurches off course, possessed by Ogino's own restless spirit, caught between two worlds and desperate to reach something beyond the physical realm entirely. Buddha's paradise becomes the unlikely destination as past and present collide in metal corridors hurtling through space. Director Shigeji Ogino crafted this film as both science fiction and personal testament, stepping into the protagonist's shoes himself and weaving real footage of his own life throughout the narrative. What unfolds is a meditation on survival, displacement, and what it means to truly belong somewhere when time itself has become your enemy. The result defies easy categorization, blending documentary, supernatural mystery, and speculative vision into something wholly its own.
