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A colony of cockroaches lives peacefully in a messy bachelor's apartment until his new girlfriend moves in.A colony of cockroaches lives peacefully in a messy bachelor's apartment until his new girlfriend moves in.A colony of cockroaches lives peacefully in a messy bachelor's apartment until his new girlfriend moves in.
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Eri Watanabe
- Wife
- (as Eriko Watanabe)
Atsuko Asano
- Naomi
- (voice)
Rebecca Forstadt
- Naomi (1992)
- (English version)
- (voice)
Ichirôta Miyakawa
- Ichirô
- (voice)
Steve Apostolina
- Ichirô (1992)
- (English version)
- (voice)
Mitsuru Hirata
- Yasuo
- (voice)
Steve Bulen
- Yasuo (1992)
- (English version)
- (voice)
Kôzô Shioya
- Takashi
- (voice)
Bill Capizzi
- Takashi (1992)
- (English version)
- (voice)
Ryoko Takakura
- Parsley
- (voice)
Melora Harte
- Parsley (1992)
- (English version)
- (voice)
Hiroshi Yagyû
- Seiji
- (voice)
Michael McConnohie
- Seiji (1992)
- (English version)
- (voice)
Tanie Kitabayashi
- Torah
- (voice)
Barbara Goodson
- Hostess (1992)
- (English version)
- (voice)
- Director
- Writers
- Hiroaki Yoshida
- Steve Kramer
- Carl Macek(uncredited)
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Ochiro: So it's come down to this... total war. But you know what? I'm going to survive it. I feel certain about that.
Hans: Maybe so. I hope so. Then when it's all over you and I can settle things between us.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Chronic Rift: War in Science Fiction (1991)
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Run Naomi! The Flit!
How much you will enjoy this film depends greatly on whether you can set aside the usual reactions to verminous insects. Do that and Naomi, this movie's star, is actually kind of cute, in the way that naive 17-year-old girls often seem. With a human face and torso beneath her antennae and black carapace, she enjoys pool parties in the toilet bowl, smooches with her childhood sweetheart and is attracted to Kurt, the handsome soldier cockroach from the neighboring tribe. Her tribe's human host is a live-and-let-live sort of fellow, unlike the girl next door, sexy but merciless toward roaches. Disaster comes when the two people fall in love.
Everything is seen from the bugs' viewpoint, full of large and potentially dangerous objects. Trash, on the other hand, is full of wonders. The photography and animation are extremely well-handled. The biggest flaw is that the characters are pretty much one-dimensional, with the differences you'd expect between roach and human society too-little explored. But this is far more adult and more thought-provoking than the usual movie cartoon. And unlike other animated animals, these roaches don't sing.
Everything is seen from the bugs' viewpoint, full of large and potentially dangerous objects. Trash, on the other hand, is full of wonders. The photography and animation are extremely well-handled. The biggest flaw is that the characters are pretty much one-dimensional, with the differences you'd expect between roach and human society too-little explored. But this is far more adult and more thought-provoking than the usual movie cartoon. And unlike other animated animals, these roaches don't sing.
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- phred22
- Jan 2, 2000
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By what name was Twilight of the Cockroaches (1987) officially released in Canada in English?
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