Jin-Rou

Wolves are always the bad guys in the stories told by humans...

Dark and gritty. It's a kind of movie that not everyone would watch and enjoy, but it definitely is a movie that one should watch to appreciate the work that must've gone into creating this beautiful story.

This must've been a passion project because these kinds of movies don't do good numbers. But this did become a classic.
Another example that I can think of is Genocidal Organ.

Main Theme Song

Some comments I was reading under this theme song summarize the story nicely

1. for those who have not seen, no words are enough. for those who have seen, no words are needed.
2. "We are not men disguised as mere dogs. We are wolves disguised as men."
3. “And then the wolf..he ate up little red riding hood..”
4. Perfect song for such a complex movie. There's no simple good and bad, but layers of intrincate, subjective motivations. And not even love can escape from that terrible fate. Maybe it's just what being human is.
5. The female vocalist Gabriela Robin has always given me goosebumps. Just Googled the name and found out that she is non other than composer/musician Yoko Kanno. Cowboy Bebop, The Vision of Escaflowne, Ghost in the Shell Stand alone Complex etc. I thought I liked Kannos musik before, but that is one major reason more. :)- Mother, what big claws you have! Mother, what big teeth you have!- And the wolf ate up little red riding hood.
6. "What lies beneath the impenetrable, cold armor is still a man with a warming heart and tears in his eyes."
7. This thing is like a wolf
   (But he couldn't shoot cause he wasn't)
   This thing is a wolf
   (He is because he shot her)
   Thus, it is thing to be banished
   (So he will never find his peace)
   the first line in the beginning of the film perfectly summarizes and foreshadows the rest of the film.
   How two of them ends up, but I couldn't stop wishing the prophecy to be wrong. I think Fuse knew this but he couldn't stop it and now he will never find his peace or resting place, screaming to sky in vein like a wolf he became.
   But girl might have also been a wolf, coming close to Fuse with the trap and being shot by him, forever engraving herself in Fuse's mind like she wanted.
   What a special movie this.