Kara no Kyoukai Movie 1: Fukan Fuukei

A series of eerily similar suicides occupy newspaper headlines in late '90s Japan. Amidst all the bizarre resemblances, there is one detail that stands out above the rest: the victims have all taken their lives by leaping from the Fujou building, a run-down abandoned structure rising high above the city.

Shiki Ryougi, a cold-hearted girl living in an empty apartment, suspects that these sinister events have a supernatural cause. Possessing a mystical power herself, Shiki works to investigate the incidents alongside Touko Aozaki, a doll-making detective specializing in magic, and her friend Mikiya Kokotou who works as Touko's assistant.

Shiki unravels the mystery as she ventures through an enigmatic world to uncover the dark secrets surrounding the strange phenomenon.

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Adaptation:	Kara no Kyoukai: The Garden of Sinners
Sequel:	Kara no Kyoukai Movie 2: Satsujin Kousatsu (Zen)
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Ryougi, Shiki

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Sakamoto, Maaya
Japanese

Aozaki, Touko

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Honda, Takako
Japanese

Kokutou, Mikiya

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Suzumura, Kenichi
Japanese

Fujou, Kirie

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Tanaka, Rie
Japanese

Kokutou, Azaka

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Fujimura, Ayumi
Japanese

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Nakao, Eri
Japanese

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Iwakami, Atsuhiro

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Kondou, Hikaru

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Hariu, Masayuki

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Toba, Yousuke

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"oblivious" by Kalafina

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Oct 18, 2022

aurkasaha24

Recommended

Kara no Kyoukai Movie 1: Fukan Fuukei
" We don't choose our path depending on the sins we carry,instead we must carry our sins on the path we choose"-Aozaki Touko

First of all, I wanna clarify yes kara no kyoukai could have been adapted into a series of episodes. and that would have given it the chance of observing the sequence of starting, progression, and ending of the show more closely rather than judging it by the standard of " This movie was mediocre, this was great". Anyway, it's a movie series but people tend to judge it as this movie or that movie not the whole ... mixture of the show. Yes, it's a slow-burn character and philosophy-driven, show with high visual storytelling.
It's mainly for character introduction and world build. And just like any other nasuverse series, it takes place in a city where under the eyes of the general mass the play of soul and magic goes on. The aesthetic and dark urban settings of the show are second to none. The tone of the empty, abandoned city and the world crumbling night with the ghostly moon is so perfectly adapted. You will see tons of apartments and people lurking in the city but somehow you will feel it's hollow. Even to the point of carefully crafting the little-to-little background details. like the shabby street lights, broken signs, concretes, or washed road dots. The atmosphere is just peak. NO not even fate doesn't come close in these types of settings. If you have watched fate, tsukihime, or read other works of Nasuverse then I don't need to breakdown everything to you. Cause every one of the takes place in the same universe with a kind of same magic system but dealing with different tragedies. Even the origin of the magic is same and somehow number of characters are connected with each other.

Now, this part of the story starts with suicide-mystery. Shiki realizing her fascination on the concept of "nature of death" and getting the hang and understanding of complex human souls. She decides to investigate this case.

Mikiya as usual being kind to Shiki and hitting the best emotions of her. One side of shiki don't like to be weak against him and it's kind of really cute to watch. Tho in this movie it isn't clearly shown if he was being obsessed like he used to do in his high school life or he had already grown the genuine affection for Shiki. Part 7 gives the best conclusion of this complex relationship.

Aozaki Touko the badass experienced magus guiding shiki and working for solving the supernatural mystries going around the world.

When people don't understand themselves they tend to convince their surroundings with their own mindest for not to be left out alone . All these years she was in the 4 walls of hospital just sleeping and waking up. She wanted to have a normal and free life. That's why she says, ' The sky has abandoned me caging me in the box". Just like fujyou for her own extreme wish of letting everyone notice her and hate for the normal world that she never could have, manipulated a large number of high school girls to do suicide and give a shallow identity to their existence and thus justifying herself. Though only at the time of her death she could realize her inner wish of being dead. Another interesting take is how her magic was exactly opposite to her real body state. It allowed her to go spiritual and freely visit the outside by floating and channel the dead ones to help her and notice her and the spirits she used on Fujyou building against shiki was all the high -schoolers she manipulated to suicide. Yes she got people to notice her in spiritual state. It was like she was playing her own dollhouse like a child who has no sense of his own. Can you imagine how much shallow action it was and lack of life there was? It was futile all along .
The foreshadowing and engrossing yet vague ghostly presence of Araya siren's ideology, powers, and goals which takes full climax in part 5. This also sets plot for the part 3.
The introduction of one of the most interesting supernatural power of the nasuverse owned by Aozaki touko and that is doll evolving to the point of human which metaphors Shiki's emptiness and dealing with multiple personality conflict. She wants to be cared for and adored by mikiya and at the same time she hated him. She lacks acceptance in her. Tho the affection for Mikiya mostly drives her in the movie. We come to see one personality of her loves the ice cream and jacket-kimono given/preffered by Mikiya and at the same time, the empty apartment hints her less interest in worldly life.

Shiki becoming more accustomed to using her Mystic Eyes of death perception and prosthetic hands. The end conversation of Aozaki Touko and Fujyou Kirei was one of the best crafted dialogue of kara no kyoukai. She advices Fujyou and left her with two choices but choice must be done by her.
Fujyou and shiki had great dynamics. Both couldn't understand their inner wish, emotions and lacked acceptance of their surroundings and suffering from their double existence. But the difference is that even though shiki didn't want to depend/lean on ay others, shiki got people who actually cared for her and could reach her soul to a certain extent.(Aozaki touko and Mikiya). She had purpose. But Fujyou was alone for ages and that loneliness gave birth to despair. and the only person who reached her, Araya Souren, was utter evil.
The philosophy of " flying and falling " which indicates to murder/death or life and at the same time decision making of our lives with the state of mind. The answer is pretty vague and really up to the viewr's viewpoint that what he will take for flying and what he will take for falling. At the end was Fujyou really flying or falling? Cause for the first time, at the time of her suicide, she understood herself and her mistakes and made a choice by herself. Her decide of suicide would give her liberation from her messed up depressing life would a great end for her means flying. But at the same time it might seem what she was did was just fall like the other high schoolers she manipulated. In fact, she herself was manipulated by Araya. By manipulating her won emotion and justifying herself once again she followed the same fate. and among the term of falling and flying there is another term 'floating" where she committed all her sins and was stuck with hatred. This talk about death have no real time answer. Just watch it and find your own answer.

This movie features one of the best light supernatural weapon-based fights. The fast-paced movements with sick camera angles and detailed background with ghostly vibes were amazing.The cry of the souls created a sense of horror. Not to mention, the SHIKI'S THEME was being played in the background.

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Jan 24, 2023

Reiko_Amori

Mixed Feelings

The story is so unusual and tangled that I didn't understand much during the screening, which doesn't mean it's bad but unfortunately difficult, at least for me.

The line of the character looks older, but it fits the animation and is therefore pretty, and the background, which depicts gray buildings like in real life, looks quite okay. The melodies in the animation, on the other hand, are quite interesting and nice, which adds a bit to this hard-to-understand animation.

The characters have their own characters despite the tangled plot, they are also not annoying, stupid and stereotypical like a crying idol or a character who only glows ...

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Dec 25, 2023

4MAD3US

Not Recommended

Do yourself a favor, and don't start watching this franchise from the first movie. This first move is completely skippable, and a painful 50 minute experience if you don't know the backstory already.

First time watchers are recommended to watch in release order, if that really is the best way, watching onwards from the second movie and leaving this movie for the last seems a lot better. Honestly though, just not watching it at all is even better.

Let's break it down then.

Art: Good, as one would expect from ufotable.

Characters: Extremely bland, could have been swapped with cardboard cutouts in this movie.

Plot: The movie intentionally has the ...

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