Trailers for Steamboy, Katsuhiro Otomo's latest flick. Although I am not a fan of Otomo's storytelling abilities (at least on film), the animation within his features is usually of the highest caliber.
This particular story looks to be of the Steampunk (Victorians with steam-based technology) variety, an sf genre that has not been totally exploited in America (yet). I suspect that this movie might be a good intro to Steampunk in American sf (Both England and Japan has had Steampunk for quite some time now), although Bruce Sterling and William Gibson did write a mildly received book on it about 10 years back (The Difference Engine).
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