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The Cockpit [VHS]

Ken'yû Horiuchi (Actor), Hikaru Midorikawa (Actor), Ryôsuke Takahashi (Director, Writer), Rated:
Unrated
Format: VHS Tape
3.6 out of 5 stars 9 customer reviews
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Product Details

  • Actors: Ken'yû Horiuchi, Hikaru Midorikawa, Stephen Apostolina, Kanetaka Arimoto, David Berón
  • Directors: Ryôsuke Takahashi, Takashi Imanishi, Yoshiaki Kawajiri
  • Writers: Ryôsuke Takahashi, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Leiji Matsumoto, Takashi Waguri
  • Producers: Haruo Noguchi
  • Format: Animated, Color, Subtitled, NTSC
  • Subtitles: English
  • Rated:
    Unrated
    Not Rated
  • Number of tapes: 1
  • Studio: Urban Vision
  • VHS Release Date: October 12, 1999
  • Run Time: 90 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00000JQV2
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #546,397 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Top Customer Reviews

2.0 out of 5 starsPoor image compression and authorship
By Raisuli the Magnificent on June 17, 2013
Format: DVD Verified Purchase
I just received my DVD a few hours ago of "The Cockpit" double billed with an anime feature "Digital Devil". I saw a clip of "The Cockpit" on Youtube, and it looked very intriguing, but the watching it now as I write this review, the DVD authorship is one of the worse I've ever seen for an anime title. Distributed by some company called Kiseki, I can only assume that they used bargain basement authorship equipment. Movic, an extremely well known anime company, is known for quality titles, and I'm surprised that they let their property get put on such a poorly authored disk.

I have lots of anime in my DVD collection, and even the b-movie titles, titles I don't like and don't watch, have better compression and authorship than this thing.

Seriously, it looks like all these people did was to transfer the VHS finished master to optical media, and then mass produce the disks, which is what the major studios did when DVDs first hit the marketplace. It's that bad.

Avoid this thing.

I'm sorry I bought it.
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4.0 out of 5 starsMesmerizing
By A Customer on January 28, 2001
Format: VHS Tape
My favorite segment in this story was the first, perhaps because it is about the war in Europe, and the writers attempts to depict charecters in that conflict, rather than to take the easy route of writing about the war in the pasific, the war thier country actually went through. It's about a Lufftwaffe pilot who is assigned to fly a special prototype fighter and escort a captured B-17-now bearing the german cross and Nazi swastica-which carries a special cargo-one that, if delivered succesfully, could turn the tide of war back into Germany's favor.
The neat thing about the second story is that it's shown from the perspective of both sides-an american aifcraft crew and a japanese bomber crew. They are two opposing sides determined to kill each other, (one of the japanese pilots has been ordered to fly a plane built specifically to fly into ships at the cost of his own life,) yet we see both groups are basically good men, hence the tragady of war, of men who under other circumstances could be the best of friends, out to kill each other simply because they've been ordered to.
The last story is ground-based, about two japanese motorcycleists who are headed back to base, and thier experiences in thier very breif odyessy. One nagging plot hole is the disapperence of a charecter at the beggining of this story.
My biggest complaint of this video was the interveiw with the directors at the end of each segment. I was hoping they would talk about the stories themsleves, about what drew each director to his own project, and comments about the charecters and events. Instead, they talked mainly about technical things, the machinery depicted in the stories, and so fourth. Still, this is a film well worth watching.
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4.0 out of 5 starsIt only works on a multi-region player...
By L'Etranger on October 20, 2012
Format: DVD Verified Purchase
I tried playing this disc on a normal NTSC player and it would not work. It then dawned on me this is an all-region PAL disc, so, unless you have a video player than can do PAL discs, you won't be able to see this video. I suppose you can also see it using a computer player.

Technical things aside, I bought this one solely based on the first feature directed by Kawajiri Yoshiaki ("Jubei Ninpucho"/"Ninja Scroll," "Wicked City," "The Running Man," "Cyber City Oedo 808," etc). The story might be a bit hard to take since it seems to be taking an accusatory tone against the allied use of the atomic bombs during the last part of WWII, but if you can manage to ignore that and focus on the quality of the animation and designs you will note this is some of the best animated OAV stuff out there bar none. It's true about the old cliche saying, "They don't make them like they used to."

The other features and the "Digital Devil" OAV I consider as filler material. They're good, but I suggest you check out "The Stratospheric Air Current" on YouTube to see the best segment of this video compilation.
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4.0 out of 5 starsVisually stunning, emotionally charged
By John A. Kuczma on July 17, 2000
Format: VHS Tape
"The Cockpit" is a collection of three animated vignettes depicting World War II stories from the perspectives of a Luftwaffe pilot, an Ohka (suicide bomb) pilot, and a Japanese motorcycle messenger.
The animation is spectacular, particularly in the aviation sequences. The last two episodes mix anatomically correct anime figures with cartoon grade caricatures, which takes a bit of getting used to, but becomes very effective once the viewer figures out what the two styles are being used to represent (the accurately drawn characters depict veteran pilots/aircrew, while the more cartoonish figures depict inexperienced, militarily naive characters).
The aircraft and other hardware are brilliantly accurate. The choice of a FockeWulf 190 as the German fighter rather than the better known Messerschmidt 109B/F reveals the degree of knowledge the creators brought to the board.
The single minor drawback is that the stories take extreme liberties with historical accuracy. First, the Germans did not develop a workable atomic weapon during the war. Second, no Japanese suicide weapon ever sank an Allied aircraft carrier or battleship.
That said, the power of these stories is in their emotional impact and the human perspective they bring to the inhumane practices of warfare. The bottom line is that the stories work and work well.
This collection is highly recommended for anyone who likes good movies and good storytelling, animated or otherwise.
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