A Wind Named Amnesia Movie Review

A strange amnesia wind sweeps away all of mankind's knowledge and human civilization vanishes. Humanity is ignorant, innocent, and brutal. Then a mysterious young man is miraculously re-educated and searches for those who destroyed man's memories. He wanders a mostly deserted landscape searching for anyone else who might have retained or regained intelligence. He finds a woman who can speak, and a lethal robot, reminiscent of the Walkers in Return of the Jedi, that seems driven to attack him. While that could be the basis for any number of B-movies, writer Hideyuki Kikuchi, animator Satoru Nakamura, and director Kazuo Yamazaki take time to speculate on the larger questions raised by the story: the philosophical implications of pure innocence, the nature of men and women, and the evolution of religion. In Japanese with English subtitles.

1993 80m/C JP D: Kazuo Yakmazaki; W: Hideyuki Kikuchi. VHS CPM