Obatarian (1990) — animation, comedy film. Directed by Tetsuro Amino. Starring Kazuyo Aoki, Ryo Horikawa, Saburo Kamei, Tomie Kataoka.
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Background and adaptation history of the 1990 anime series based on a late-1980s manga.
Animation, Comedy · 70 min · 1990
The pejorative word obatalian is a pun between the Japanese word obaasan (old lady) and the English word battalion. Obatalian are known to always enter a train running as fast as they can, bumping others people in order to catch a free seat before the others. They haggle things that aren't normally haggled like grocery store produce. They are fearless and pitiless, just like a battalion of barbarians. This anime is follows 6 stories of one such Obatalian and her wake of destruction.
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