odysseus
Hikikomori
Hello all,
Finding this film has bugged me for years and years, and after sporadically searching for it on google, consulting ChatGPT, and posting on a couple subreddits, I’m almost convinced this thing is unsolvable. It’s very possible the title I’m looking for is an OVA or a short film or part of an anthology (in fact I'm becoming increasingly convinced that this is so) that has become hard to find over the years.
When I was a child in Kosovo, around 2008, I saw this intriguing anime film, probably from the late 80s/90s about a young man who’s the sole surviver of humanity in a sci-fi post-apocalyptic setting. His sole comrade is a robot who doesn’t provide much in the way of companionship, so in order to end his loneliness he attempts to commit suicide by shooting himself in the chest with a blaster pistol to no avail (which I guess meant he was special in some way?).
He explores the desolate and barren surroundings of his base (not sure if it’s set on Earth or not) in a speeder or ship of some kind, and in his travels finds a sealed coffin with a timer on it, which is set to expire in many years. While at first elated, since he thinks it might contain another human frozen or something, he grows desperate as he tries in vain to open it, and eventually the rest of the film finds him waiting for decades for the timer to finish. I can’t remember exactly what ends up being inside the casket or whether there’s anything in it at all, but it’s not something the audience would expect. By the end of the film, the young character is an old man with a long white beard, and his only desire in life is finding out what’s inside the casket. The central plot is derived from the coffin, as both us and the audience try to guess what’s inside, and eventually over whether it matters what is inside as this man spends his entire life waiting for it to open so his life is given meaning. Overall the tone is very abstract and the whole thing plays a lot like an art film trying to raise equations about humanity.
I don’t remember much else, but I’ll try to help answer any other questions. And before someone mentions it, it’s not Angel’s Egg, though the style is very similar.
Many thanks!
Finding this film has bugged me for years and years, and after sporadically searching for it on google, consulting ChatGPT, and posting on a couple subreddits, I’m almost convinced this thing is unsolvable. It’s very possible the title I’m looking for is an OVA or a short film or part of an anthology (in fact I'm becoming increasingly convinced that this is so) that has become hard to find over the years.
When I was a child in Kosovo, around 2008, I saw this intriguing anime film, probably from the late 80s/90s about a young man who’s the sole surviver of humanity in a sci-fi post-apocalyptic setting. His sole comrade is a robot who doesn’t provide much in the way of companionship, so in order to end his loneliness he attempts to commit suicide by shooting himself in the chest with a blaster pistol to no avail (which I guess meant he was special in some way?).
He explores the desolate and barren surroundings of his base (not sure if it’s set on Earth or not) in a speeder or ship of some kind, and in his travels finds a sealed coffin with a timer on it, which is set to expire in many years. While at first elated, since he thinks it might contain another human frozen or something, he grows desperate as he tries in vain to open it, and eventually the rest of the film finds him waiting for decades for the timer to finish. I can’t remember exactly what ends up being inside the casket or whether there’s anything in it at all, but it’s not something the audience would expect. By the end of the film, the young character is an old man with a long white beard, and his only desire in life is finding out what’s inside the casket. The central plot is derived from the coffin, as both us and the audience try to guess what’s inside, and eventually over whether it matters what is inside as this man spends his entire life waiting for it to open so his life is given meaning. Overall the tone is very abstract and the whole thing plays a lot like an art film trying to raise equations about humanity.
I don’t remember much else, but I’ll try to help answer any other questions. And before someone mentions it, it’s not Angel’s Egg, though the style is very similar.
Many thanks!
