Sweat Punch

Sweat Punch is a series of five Studio 4°C shorts collected in January 2007 as a direct-to-DVD package film entitled Deep Imagination. The first four shorts had previously featured on the 4-volume "DVD magazine" series, Grasshoppa!, with one Sweat Punch episode per Grasshoppa! DVD. Upon collection and release in 2007's Deep Imagination, a fifth short was added to the Sweat Punch series. Each punch is directed by a different director, and the punches deal with a variety of subjects.

Punch1 - Dan Petory Kyouju no Yuuutsu (Professor Dan Petory's Blues)



A 10-minute short directed by Hidekazu Ohara, Dan Petory Kyouju no Yuuutsu is a musical number starring a hand puppet named Junior. The puppet is controlled by the drunken Professor Dan Petory who explains in puppetry the answers to such questions as why the Earth is blue and why UFOs fly in a zig-zag pattern.

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Punch2 - End of the World



A 10-minute short directed by Osamu Kobayashi, "End of the World" is a science fiction story about a young alien girl named Yuko as she escapes from the world of humans. After returning to her own world with Kazumi, a human girl she met at a rock concert on Earth, Yuko wages a retaliatory campaign against hordes of S&M monsters, and the evil queen of Yuko's world. The music featured is by the all-girl punk rock group, Lolita No.18. The short features the voice-talent of Hikaru Midorikawa.

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Punch3 - Kigeki

During Ireland's War of Independence, a five year old girl set out to save her village from the English army by trying to find the rumored skilled swordsman living in a nearby castle. The man only takes books of a certain genre as payment, and is only known as "The Black Swordsman".

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Punch4 - Higan (Beyond)


An 8-minute short directed by Yasushi Muraki, Higan is a mecha piece set in a battlefield. The story revolves around three soldiers in mech powersuits who are engaged in a fight to the death against two mobile tanks.

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Punch5 - Garakuta no Machi (Junk Town)

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