Memories
Three boldly contrasting anime visions turn memory, accidental catastrophe, and endless warfare into a haunting science-fiction triptych.
Overview
A journey through the mind's eye reveals the power of memories and imagination.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Moderate
- haunting
- surreal
- darkly comic
- anime marathon
- science fiction double feature
What critics said
Critics broadly praised the film's stellar animation and the emotional and visual power of Magnetic Rose, while finding the other two episodes less complex or creative.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
The film contains three independent stories: a haunted spaceship mystery, a comic biological disaster, and a militarized city allegory.
Magnetic Rose centers on a spaceship environment generated from one woman's memories and emotional past.
Critics specifically praised the stellar animation, realistic outer-space physics, inventive cannon-city design, and high-quality visuals.
The three episodes shift from haunted heartbreak and horror to satirical disaster comedy and an allegorical military dystopia.
Films like Memories, and why
Neo Tokyo
experimental animated science fiction anthology combining technological anxiety, psychological unease, and striking visual design
Akira
Japanese animated science fiction with dystopian world-building, allegory, and kinetic spectacle
Fantastic Planet
anthology structure, surreal animation, and unsettling speculative visions of human society
Robot Carnival
thoughtful animated science fiction anthology balancing cosmic mystery, dark humor, and social commentary
Movie Details
- Directors
- Katsuhiro Otomo, Kōji Morimoto, Tensai Okamura
- Release Date
- 1995-12-23
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 (608)
Cast
- Tsutomu Isobe
- Koichi Yamadera
- Shozo Iizuka
- Shigeru Chiba
- Gara Takashima
- Ami Hasegawa
- Hideyuki Hori
- Kenichi Ogata
- Osamu Saka
- Hisako Kyoda
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
- Rent
- Amazon Video
- Buy
- Amazon Video
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is Memories about?
- Three boldly contrasting anime visions turn memory, accidental catastrophe, and endless warfare into a haunting science-fiction triptych.
- What is Memories like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Memories as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is Memories violent?
- Somewhat. Ember rates the violence in Memories as moderate.
- What did critics think of Memories?
- Critics broadly praised the film's stellar animation and the emotional and visual power of Magnetic Rose, while finding the other two episodes less complex or creative.
- Which films are like Memories?
- Films with a similar feel include Neo Tokyo, Akira, Fantastic Planet, and Robot Carnival.
- How long is Memories?
- Memories runs 113 minutes.
- Where can I watch Memories?
- In United States, Memories streams on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads.
