Wonderful Days Sky Blue

Been reading this book lately which I picked up in Seoul back when the film Wonderful Days (also known in the US as Sky Blue) came out many moons ago. The book is the extended version of the film. Thought I would talk about it after stumbling on the trailer below. Earth is surrounded by a could of nuclear dust and pollution as a result of many wars. Theres no vegetation or clean water to consume. Many of the human race become deformed due to the radiation.

A group of scientists in a last desperate attempt to save wo/man kind build a biological structure called Ecoban that feeds off the pollution. The structure grows into a huge city with rooms, floors, elevators and an environment where humans can live safely and cleanly enclosing them in from the pollution outside.

However, there are some who are on the outside of Ecoban who are living among the remains of planet earth. Folks inside Ecoban want to keep the folks on the outside just where they are.

Mother earth finds a way and she starts to heal itself after many years of a polluted atmosphere. This is bad news for Ecoban as it needs pollution to be able to sustain itself and the huge population inside.
There is another reason why this is bad news. The leaders governing Ecoban decide that the atmosphere must remain polluted in order for them to keep their reign over the "dirty" folk on the outside.

The governors at Ecoban have a device that continues to pollute the earths atmosphere which creates a constant dark cloud hiding the sun.

The main hero-type of the story called Suha is quite miffed about the situation - hes on the outside and knows what those evil folks at Ecoban are up to and sets out to put a stop to the dastardly shenanigans....

The high quality CG, animation and music is most atmospheric and captures a futuristic tale of post nuclear earth. I really liked the concept of a city that was initially built to feed off the nuclear pollution that engulfed the earth.

The novel that I picked up goes into much more detail about how Ecoban was built etc etc - not only an excellent read but its helping keep my Korean language ability in shape - kind of ^^;

Was so excited about the release of the film at the time that I went to Korea just to see it ^^; A recommended watch if you have the time.

Some screenshots below which I saved from the official site (which doesn't exist any more) and the whole film picked up from YouTube below that - I do recommend that you see a better quality version though.

And the entire film below. I've only seen the Korean version but the English dub sounds quite decent.