Masashi AndoOne of the two directors of ‘The Deer King’, was fired as animation director or supervisor with the best anime. Associated with Hayao Miyazake -‘Porco roso’, ‘Princess Mononoke’ and ‘Spirited Away’-, Mamoru Oshii -‘Ghost in the Shell 2’-, Isao Takahata -‘Princess Kayuga’, her filmography in this area is enviable. – and Makoto Shinkai -‘Your Name’ and ‘Time with you’-. Ando, in his directorial debut, adopted his animation style. a different understanding of framing, color and movement regarding the filmmakers he worked with.
This is a film adventure and medieval fantasy it also speaks of an epidemic and, above all, of the bonds that strengthen between two hostile characters in a flight of vertigo. there is a veteran soldier held as a slave in some salt mines a girl who survived the massacre forged by wolf-shaped creatures. As the unlikely couple fights against time and all odds to find a cure, the disease spreads like the plague. Ando and his assistant director, Masayuki Miyaji -also from the Ghibli studios quarry-, tell the adventure in medium claritybut where these two hopeful socialites shine is sometimes in the angular line and the plasticity of the movements.