Urusei Yatsura 2: Byûtifuru dorîmâ (1984)

User Rating:

8.0/10   

Director:

Mamoru Oshii

Writers:

Mamoru Oshii (screenplay)
Rumiko Takahashi (comic)

Release Date:

11 February 1984 (Japan)

Genre:

Animation | Comedy | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Plot:

Lum is a cheerful alien who now lives with her human fiancée, Ataru and her goods friends on earth. The night before the school festival...

Plot Keywords:

Alien | Dream | Sequel | Aquarium | Folk Tale

Cast

Fumi Hirano	...	Lum (voice)
Toshio Furukawa	...	Ataru Moroboshi (voice)
Akira Kamiya	...	Mendou (voice)
Kazuko Sugiyama	...	Ten (voice)
Saeko Shimazu	...	Shinobu (voice)
Mayumi Tanaka	...	Ryuunosuke (voice)
Shigeru Chiba	...	Megane (voice)
Akira Murayama	...	Perm (voice)
Shinji Nomura	...	Kakugari (voice)
Issei Futamata	...	Chibi (voice)
Kenichi Ogata	...	Ataru's Father (voice)
Natsumi Sakuma	...	Ataru's Mother (voice)
Michihiro Ikemizu	...	Onsen-Mark (voice)
Masahiro Anzai	...	Ryuunosuke's Father (voice)
Tomomichi Nishimura	...	Principal (voice)

Also Known As:

Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer

Runtime:

98 min | USA:90 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:Unrated

Company:

Kitty Films

Trivia:

The envisioning of Tomobiki riding on a turtle's back owes some to early Hindu conceptions of the universe.

Quotes:

[At Megane's Nazi-themed "Third Reich Decadent Cafe"]
Perm: But do you really think anyone'll come to a place that looks like this, Megane?
Chibi: Maybe we should have gone with the 'Hot Babes Coffee Shop' like Ataru suggested. Lum gave it her OK too, after all.
Megane: I won't have Lum acting like a bimbo. Besides, do you know how hard it was to collect money from everyone in class to open this place? I'll be damned if I'll let it be operated according to Ataru's weird tastes.
Perm: [Muttering] 'Weird tastes' he says...

Movie Connections:

Spoofed in Ranma ½: Kessen Tôgenkyô! Hanayome o torimodose!! (1992)

Simply The Best

It's hard to describe the effect that first seeing this movie had on me the first time I saw it five years ago, but it's something that's stuck with me at the very least.

This was the first bit of UY I ever saw, and I quickly became addicted to the series because of it. The animation is wonderful, the characters are all nifty, and the mysteries that abound in the story are all intriguing. I sometimes find myself just randomly whistling the music from this movie as it's so... so simply wonderful. The film is just beautiful in every chord, like a concerto or a painting. It's art.

This is one of my favorite movies ever. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

Rating: 10/10 - Perfect.