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Now and Then, Here and There Season 1, Ep. 1 "A Girl Admiring the Sunset"

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Meet happy-go-lucky boy Shu. He lives the typical life of a kid, until one day on the way home from Kendo practice when he sees a mysterious girl admiring the sunset from the top of a factory exhaust pipe.
  • Starring: Akemi Okamura: Kaori Nazuka
  • Directed by: Akitaro Daichi
  • Runtime: 26 minutes
  • Original air date: January 02, 2002
  • Network: Starz
 
  
 
 

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1. A Girl Admiring the Sunset
  January 2, 2002
Meet happy-go-lucky boy Shu. He lives the typical life of a kid, until one day on the way home from Kendo practice when he sees a mysterious girl admiring the sunset from the top of a factory exhaust pipe.
 
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2. A Boy and a Mad King
  January 2, 2002
Lala-Ru is captured by Abelia's men, but her magical pendant escapes with Shu at the last moment. Meanwhile, Shu is discovered and captured by Nabuca, one of Abelia's men.
 
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3. A Feast in the Dark
  January 2, 2002
While imprisoned, Shu meets a fragile blue-eyed girl named Sara who found her way to this hellish future under similar circumstances. Meanwhile, King Hamdo confronts Lala-Ru, desperate to find the location of her pendant.
 
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4. Discord
  January 2, 2002
The young soldiers have their marching orders: Search the entire ship from top to bottom for Lala-Ru's missing pendant. Shu recovers, and is forced to join their ranks as a soldier of Hellywood.
 
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5. Murder
  January 2, 2002
Sara continues to suffer unspeakable horrors as a prisoner turned concubine. King Hamdo’s frustration reaches a boiling point as the mission to recover the pendant continues to be fruitless.
 
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6. Disappearance in a Sandstorm
  April 30, 2002
After suffering from horrible brutalities for too long, a hardened Sara breaks free from her prison shackles. The young soldiers are now faced with a tour of duty as they leave Hellywood to seek more soldiers.
 
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7. Night of Flight
  April 30, 2002
Shu is court-marshaled for his interference during the mission to recruit more soldiers from the villages that surround Hellywood. While in prison, he uncovers an unbelievable mystery and the fate of this hellish future suddenly falls squarely in his hands.
 
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8. Two Lone Souls
  April 30, 2002
As King Hamdo recovers from Shu's incredible attack, Lady Abelia discovers that Hellywood suddenly has the ability to mobilize itself across the desert. Now that Shu is on the run, he must face a whole new set of dangers in the wild.
 
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9. In the Chasm
  April 30, 2002
Shu and Lala-Ru's journey takes them to a new village. Meanwhile Lady Abelia succeeds in preparing Hellywood for war, but King Hamdo is more interested in revenge than tactics.
 
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10. Prelude to Chaos
  May 14, 2002
Shu and Lala-Ru are tentatively welcomed by the villagers of Zari Bars. Just when they think that Hellywood is just a mere memory, a lone injured soldier from the fortress hobbles into town in desperate need of care.
 
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11. Eve of Destruction
  May 14, 2002
Sis, one of the citizens of Zari Bars, finds Sara in the desert, on the verge of death.. As Sis and the other villagers nurse her to recovery, they realize that she is pregnant.
 
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12. This Bloody Earth
  May 14, 2002
Sara warns the people of Zari Bars that an impending attack from Hellywood is eminent. The village decides that the best strategy is to leverage their possession of Lala-Ru in a negotiation with King Hamdo.
 
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13. Now and Then, Here and There
  May 14, 2002
Nabuca finds himself at a crossroad: Continue killing for the empty promise of going home after the war ends, or listen to his heart and put down his gun. Will King Hamdo satisfy his revenge and enslave the entire village of Zari Bars? Will Lala-Ru survive?
 
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Episode 1, "A Girl Admiring the Sunset"
Synopsis: Meet happy-go-lucky boy Shu. He lives the typical life of a kid, until one day on the way home from Kendo practice when he sees a mysterious girl admiring the sunset from the top of a factory exhaust pipe.
Original air date: January 2, 2002
Runtime: 26 minutes
ASIN: B001FBHV2I
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #384,479 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
Now and Then, Here and There Season 1
Synopsis: A Japanese boy named Shu tries to save a strange girl, Lala Ru, from kidnappers and is transported to an alternate Earth on the brink of being swallowed by the sun.
Starring: Akemi Okamura: Kaori Nazuka
Season year: 2002
Network: Starz
ASIN: B001FBD2KS
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Much Deeper Emotional Experience Than Castle in the Sky, September 14, 2008
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Safa Alai (St. Louis, MO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Now and Then, Here and There Season 1 (Amazon Instant Video)
This series borrows plot lines from Miyazaki's Castle in the Sky: the girl with an all-powerful pendant, a mad-man needing the girl and her pendant to work his flying doomsday fortress, and a boisterous boy flung into the middle of all this because he dared to help the girl. But that's where the comparison ends, for while this movie borrows plot lines from Castle in the Sky, it centers itself on the horrors of war.

Be warned. This is no kid's movie. The film treats without mercy the horrors of child soldiering, rape, murder, genocide, and the madness of war, and though viewing this was tough for me at times, it taught me much about its main subjects.

Though I found the main character Shu downright irritating in the beginning, I still could not fail to connect with him as the film progressed. The only character that I thought was a little flat at times was the mad King Hamdo's do-everything commanding officer, Abelia. But even here, you can still see some of her motivation in the few lines she's allowed to reveal her twisted devotion to King Hamdo.

The dynamics between the boy soldiers and Sara and Shu, is meticulously crafted and very believable. It is agonizing to see how desperately Nabuca hangs on to the lie of going home one day, or how his boyhood friend has become a madman himself. It is in the agony of these relationships that the movie happens.

So while the movie might have taken a plot closely resembling Castle in the Sky, its portrayal of its characters and its careful portrayal of what we read in newspapers but never actually connect to, that makes this series worthwhile, even if it is at times painful.
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