Ken Ishii 'Extra' - Music Video (HD)

The amazing animated music video for 'Extra' by Ken Ishii. Directed by Koji Morimoto (the animation director of Akira). Upresed to 720p from my original beta sp source. This is the highest quality version of this video that you will see on the web.

[xenonium]

this masterpiece turns 30 this year, this was truly ahead of its time.

[KyokoUchinoko]

このトラックとUNDER
90年代半ばから後半にかけての思い出と共にある名曲だねえ

[xadada]

I first watched this music video late at night on MTV and it felt like I had been parachuted into a foreign territory without a map. It felt like a vision of the future beyond my imagination, a future filled with nostalgia for a past I had never experienced, a nostalgia for a future that would never happen. A mourning for a lost future.

[Hoz.em_too_much]

久しぶりに超見たくなって来た。
やっぱりこのゾクッとさせられる映像と音楽。

[rooy]

After 20 years, this track still is a time machine which brings you far ahead to the future.

[OrchardFilm]

ever since I first saw this video, I have been absolutely in love with the animation at 3:12... the shadows dancing all over his face, the lights reflected in his goggles... I know it's only a few seconds long, but it really is an incredibly detailed scene! makes for an awesome animated gif, too :)

[ladyspace]

Ich weiß nicht wie lange und wie oft ich nach dieses Video gesucht habe aber es hat sich gelohnt und ich würde auf jedem Fall einen Anime bezüglich dieser Story sehen. Das ist ein Meisterwerk

[lucasworktv]

This song and the video are from a completely different world and era!
90s were a truly futuristic period, especially in Japan!

[JANUSZKOR]

This is definitely still ahead of our times.

[kedabro]

I grew up on a farm, raised by fundamentalists. Then I went to college in a big city. Everything in the normal world was so freakishly weird and chaotic to me. My personality fragmented, but no one else seemed bewildered by the world we were living in. But then, late at night, this video appeared on the screen. And it showed me what I felt like, right there, clear as neon in the night. For the first time in years I did not feel alone.

[adrianjimenez]

Man the 90's were without a doubt some golden years.

[Akitsu_Hanabi]

うわあこれ何年もずっと探してた！！嬉しい！！
一回見ただけなのにずっと印象に残ってた…

[RealMonoid]

I remember when this ran late at night on MTV. Was something completly new to me, anime & techno.

[KaMui_AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs]

Definitely revolutionary for 1995. In the audio and visual department on a whole new level!
I remember watching this when I was a kid and I was totally blown away.
This whole package is still a beast!
But what do you expect from Katsuhiro Otomo, who also drew "Akira". :)
Edit: but this one was directed by Koji Morimoto. My bad.

[pareporia]

退廃的な作品だけど、実際も水不足、阪神大震災、オウムとか
結構カオスってた。だからこそ、惹かれたのかなぁ。

[人間だもの-yw]

Highlights of this animation is that incorporating 3DCG Perth and digital coloring in 1995.
I want to also note that even human skeletal movements are made skillfully reproduced in Japan own animation.

[KoolBully]

I have been looking for this video for 12 years and I finally found it. By pure chance no less. It just popped up in my recommended. I want to cry ;w;

[fritzkuhne]

the sounds of things happening in the video making their way into the song is MINDBLOWING.
i cant believe this was made long before i was born!

[janicebelfiore]

My son did a portrait of a Japanese DJ superimposed on mountains. My son loved Anime. I think it is a portrait of Ken Ishii

[Veezyjung]

I can't like this enough. The more I watch it, the more it hits me. It's incredible.