Kino's Journey I: Idle Adventurer

Review Date: 2005 April 28 17:38

Reviewed by: Spike

Released by: ADV Films UK

Age Rating: 12

Region: 2 - UK

Volume 1 of 4

Length: 100 minutes

Subtitles: English

Audio: English 5.1 Surround
Japanese 2.0 Stereo

Summary

Kino is a traveller, sitting astride the motorcycle Hermes through the countryside of a beautiful world, stopping at various countries along the way, sometimes for too long, sometimes for not long enough, but always three days.

Review

Kino's Journey is, at its core, a complex set of fables. Each episode finds Kino in a new 'country', each of which is around the size of a large town and is totally self-contained with only the travellers venturing in-between. Each of these countries is different, in many different ways, be it technological, religious or sociological, but there is usually something strange about all of them. Kino explores all of these different worlds, sometimes changing for better or for worse, sometimes just observing the myriad of cultural differences that these worlds provide.