My dad rented this movie for me when I was about 6 or 7 and home from school with the flu. I remember watching it in a fever state and the thing has haunted me ever since.
This is NOT boring,very well drawn & very much creative.. A must see for anybody in their 30's + a great childhood memory.. I loved when he was in hell or rather hades & had every favorite desert & couldn't eat nothing.. And the part when he faced medusa! Greatness here,appreciate the fine arts of the 70's
I remember watching this movie, but damn it, I can't find it anywhere? I thought for sure someone would have posted the whole thing. thanks for posting this much though. makes me go roughting through my pile of movies for the VCR of this movie
As I watched this, I began to think back to the time frame of when the old TV show, "Emergency!," folded. I was sad about that type of thing. But I was happy the stars of that show got opportunities to do other acting projects. Mike Stoker went back to firefighting for Los Angeles County. He retired as a captain in 1996. Julie London did one final project before retiring in 1980. That was her rendition of, "My Funny Valentine," for the 1981 motion picture, "Sharky's Machine."
@eshakunamatata That scene of the man and women was from what was once known as "Metamorphoses" when it was being produced, and was used in the Japanese release, but removed from the US "Winds of Change" release.
@Blakefe I still don't know myself other than considering they were editing the trailer using the US version of the film they had at the time. The finish film in Japan used a small amount of Alan Constandinos' tracks mixed with original music and voice actors for their release.
Man this is some trippy stuff. I hope that this is one day released here. Commercially. Does anyone know if this was released at one time in the states?
@Blakefe They're pretty much using the English track from when they had Alan Constandinos scoring the music. Most of the music heard in this comes from the US release though in Japan only a scant number of Constandinos' music was used and was in all Japanese for the voices (using different voice actors for the characters unlike the US version having Peter Ustinov narrating it through).
Aha. I finally found it. Where else but RU-vid, right? I remember 'Winds of Change' when it got released back in 79' when I was a kid. I just remember my neighbor totally hating it, like it was beyond comprehension. Mainstream kids were expecting Disney in those days, or at least a movie not as abstract. I caught it a few years later on cable, didn't think much. It looks like a trip now though.
@todtubetod It certainly was a rather hard film to get into since it involved stories that weren't necessary kid-friendly the slightest. It's just another case of a Japanese studio misunderstanding what we like/want and delivering something that just goes nowhere and ends up nothing (some people would say this about TMS's "Little Nemo" movie, but it still has it's fans).
I remember seeing a commercial when I was growing up in Los Angeles, it was called Metamorphosis. That makes three different titles. I also heard too that it is boring, that all the good parts are here.
I wonder if the people at Disney saw this and were inspired to make "Hercules". There's a strong similarity in the artistic aesthetic here and Gerald Scarfe's fantasy drawings (particularly the ones he made in designing "Hercules"). Maybe the Disney animators saw this and "The Wall" and thought they could combine the flowy "Fantasia"-like mythology style and Gerald Scarfe's dark, scratchy, surreal character designs... Which this movie already (kind of) had both. Hmm...
I saw this movie on HBO as a kid. Is this movie available on DVD? How many different tittles does this movie have? Winds Of Change, Metamorphoses. Any others?
@tubesoda Kinda makes me feel a little sad thinking the trailer looked much better than the film itself as presented on that disc. It's as if they just stuck on an old analog master they had lying around someplace and not think to doing any kind of new digital mastering of the source material at all (perhaps it shows how much they could care less of what they did over 30 years ago).
@shanadelorme On the right there is a clip with the same trailer, but the account name that posted it is called sanrio film. on the trailer, there is a link that will take you to sanrio.com. you can find the film there, but unfortunately, everything is in Japanese
Greek mitology in anime movie with disney pinochios aestethic and funk & ghospel bso that remember a little a fantasia for some scenes ¿disney's feedback again in hercules?
