This movie is shown as 4 music videos in MTV and Cartoon Network. The four are “One More Time”, “Aerodynamics”, “Digital Love” and “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger”. These four videos are only the first part of the story. (top pic: Crescent dolls; bottom pic: cameo appearance of daft punk)
Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, thought of the idea during their early recording of their album “Discovery”. The concept of the film involved science fiction and entertainment industry. This was later developed by Cedric Hervet. The trio brought the story to Tokyo hoping to create the film with their childhood hero Leiji Matsumoto. After Leiji Matsumoto joined to supervise the film, production started in October 2000 and finished in April 2003.
The film doesn’t include any dialogue and has minimal sound effects. The film featured the tracks from the Daft Punk’s second album “Discovery”. Each song is made as a story and serves as chapters in the film. It was produced by Daft Punk and Toei Animation. Some of the scenes in the film are similar to Matsumoto’s earlier works.
The story is about an abduction of an interstellar pop band. A distress signal was sent to a nearby ship piloted by Shep. Shep is first seen daydreaming about the band’s bassist Stella. After receiving the distress signal Shep is determined to save the band. He followed them through a wormhole and his ship crashed landed on Earth. The band was brought to Earth and their captor, Earl de Darkwood, disguised band. Their memories were replaced, their blue skin is skin painted, they were dressed and they are implanted with mind control devices. The band is now called the Crescent Dolls.
I only saw this movie once on Wowow and that was a long time ago. So if there is someone that can tell me where to find a copy of this animated film please tell me. I want to see it again.
Or maybe a website that I can watch or download this, Onegai Shimasu!
originally posted: October 4, 2007
