映画「MEMORIES」の設定資料集。「彼女の思い出」「最臭兵器」「大砲の街」と順に、それぞれのスタッフのインタビュー、美術設定、キャラクター設定、イメージボードなど。そして大友克洋自ら描いた「大砲の街」のストーリーボード（絵コンテ）は見ごたえ十分なのだ。

A Sino-Thai family find their destiny is inseparably entangled with that of the country they have adopted as a home. Not long before the Communist revolution, Tong, sent by his peasant-parents in impoverished rural China to work with a relative in Siam, has risen to become a rice-trading tycoon in Bangkok’s Chinatown, married a former palace cook and built a large family in the...(展开全部)

According to many clinical psychologists, when the mind is forced to endure a horrifying experience, it has the ability to bury the entire memory of it so deeply within the unconscious that it can only be recalled in the form of a flashback triggered by a sight, a smell, or a sound. Indeed, therapists and lawyers have created an industry based on treating and litigating the cas...(展开全部)

According to many clinical psychologists, when the mind is forced to endure a horrifying experience, it has the ability to bury the entire memory of it so deeply within the unconscious that it can only be recalled in the form of a flashback triggered by a sight, a smell, or a sound. Indeed, therapists and lawyers have created an industry based on treating and litigating the cas...(展开全部)

Written in Soviet Moscow in the 1920s—but considered too subversive even to show to a publisher—the seven tales included here attest to Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s boundless imagination, black humor, and breathtaking irony: a man loses his way in the vast black waste of his own small room; the Eiffel Tower runs amok; a kind soul dreams of selling “everything you need for suicide...(展开全部)

Freetown, Sierra Leone, 1969. On a hot January evening that he will remember for decades, Elias Cole first catches sight of Saffia Kamara, the wife of a charismatic colleague. He is transfixed. Thirty years later, lying in the capital's hospital, he recalls the desire that drove him to acts of betrayal he has tried to justify ever since. Elsewhere in the hospital, Kai, a gift...(展开全部)

Freetown, Sierra Leone, 1969. On a hot January evening that he will remember for decades, Elias Cole first catches sight of Saffia Kamara, the wife of a charismatic colleague. He is transfixed. Thirty years later, lying in the capital's hospital, he recalls the desire that drove him to acts of betrayal he has tried to justify ever since. Elsewhere in the hospital, Kai, a gift...(展开全部)

阿敏娜妲·芙娜（Aminatta Forna），生于苏格兰，长于西非，现居伦敦。2007年，被《名利场》评为非洲最重要的新作家之一。 其处女作《在水面跳舞的恶魔》（The Devil That Danced on the Water）获得2003年萨缪尔·约翰逊奖决选，《祖先石》（Ancestor Stones）获得2008年项豪斯顿·莱特遗产奖、都柏林文学奖的提名，及被《华盛顿时报》列为2006年最有影响力的文学作品。 阿敏娜妲也为杂志、报纸、广播和电视写稿，撰写了一部关于非洲历史与艺术的电视纪录片。

High above the planet Harmony. the Oversoul watches Its task. programmed so many millennia ago. is to guard the human settlement on this planet-. -to protect this fragile remnant of Earth from all threats. To protect them. most of all. from themselves. The Oversoul has done its job well. There is no war on Harmony. There are no weapons of mass destruction. There is no technolog...(展开全部)

The ancient Greeks, to whom a trained memory was of vital importance - as it was to everyone before the invention of printing - created an elaborate memory system, based on a technique of impressing 'places' and 'images' on the mind. Inherited and recorded by the Romans, this art of memory passed into the European tradition, to be revived, in occult form, at the Renaissance, an...(展开全部)