Rate a 5 English Subtitled art film no vocals/sound Story A story within a story. Both stories represent each other. The message from all of this is kind. The anime comments it as favors pay off. While in a way that works I find my take is a better explanation. Life is challenging. We rely on constant things to get by. I reckon no one is a stranger to the idea of wanting more of something. The problem of that greed is one forgets about balance. Sure, we could have more but is it really worth it? Will the ends justify the means? As for the ending it made me smile.Although it was not quite clear at first the end result as long as you stuck around you could figure it out. I suppose the idea of not being clear was intended. For it only builds on the main message of greed. Which was a wonderful touch.

Art
-black and white
- An unfortunate mixture. I understand this was is an old film but the constant screen shakes, brightness issues, weird character expression/movements was quite appalling. Although, that is just a portion of the anime production. Some of the animations/drawings were done well like the minor characters.

Characters
-there a few moments of wonderfully crafted dialogue. I type well crafted because of how intelligent the underlying reason for it was.