Redline (2009)
Director: Takeshi Koike Run Time: 102 min. Release Year: 2009 Language: Japanese
Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Takeshi Aono, Takuya Kimura, Tatsuya Gashûin, Yu Aoi
A daredevil driver is determined to compete in Redline, the most popular race in the galaxy. The race only occurs every five years, but in order to participate he must overcome the mafia, the government and even love.
“This is as good an example as I can name of the productive and healthy relationship between different animation techniques: every frame was hand-drawn (around 100,000 drawings in total, according to the press releases at the time, a substantial number for a 102-minute animated feature), and so we get the fluidity and flexibility of traditional animation, but it has a sleek, futuristic cleanliness that could only have been achieved by using the stability of computer painting.” ~ Tim Brayton, Alternate Ending