Saturday, 13 June 2015

THE OTHER S.W.O.R.D 2: VEXILLE

Another modern deployment of the acronym SWORD was in the 2007 Japanese movie VEXILLE. My friend Mark told me about this anime, which I'd never heard of.  Here's a You Tube trailer with a gorgeous bit of singing in it [reminiscent of the melody in the final scenes of The MIST]




SWORD is a US Navy Seals team in the year 2077. They are sent in to gather intell about Japan, which has been sealed off under an energy dome.for a decade. Vexille is the only SWORD seal to evade capture.


There is even a resistance movement as well. Sounds like Project SWORD could have handled this one too!

The US Seals SWORD logo is:



You can see lots more about VEXILLE on the official Japanese website include SWORD T-Shirts [in goods].  You also go to Wiki or IMDB to find out more.

Anyone seen this flick?

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