" Critics have praised the production values of the film, and generally considered it thought-provoking and cerebral. Bamboo Dong in her review wrote "Without a doubt, A Wind Named Amnesia is one of the most unique and creative post-apocalyptic tales ever woven. Raphael See of THEM Anime Reviews called the film a sleeper hit and "one of the best titles I've never heard of." Anime News Network in their review considered the film a classic, although noting the ending was weak. The film has garnered some praise years after its initial release.
Script: Kazuo Yamazaki, Yoshiaki Kawajiri & Kenji Kurata.Producer: Tadao Masumizu, Tomirou Kuriyama, Shin Seya.Licensors: Central Park Media, Manga Entertainment Ltd.Title: A Wind Named Amnesia/Invader Summer.Title: 風の名はアムネジア ( Kaze no Na-wa Amunejia).Sophia leaves in order to rejoin her race and convince them that humanity deserves to have their memories. After destroying the Police Mech, Sophia saves Wataru as he falls from a building. Upon arriving, Wataru drops Sophia off in order to defeat the Police Mech by himself. Wataru and Sophia are chased across the country by the unrelenting Police Mech until they reach New York City. Sophia makes a wager with Wataru that if he is able to convince another person to join him in his travels, she will return humanity's memory. Sophia then explains that she is a member of an alien race that is responsible for the wind that erased Earth's citizens' memories. As a result, Lisa decides to remain in Eternal Town. As they depart from the city, Lisa begins to recall memories from her past including the fact that the other citizen who was brainwashed into running the city was her father. The super computer attempts to persuade Sophia and Wataru into becoming citizens as well but the two escape with one of the original citizens, Lisa. When Wataru regains consciousness, he discovers that the city is run by a super computer that has brainwashed two of its original citizens into running the day-to-day operations of the city. Sophia rescues Wataru and brings him to an advanced city called Eternal Town for medical attention. Wataru and Sophia resume their travels only to be attacked once more by the Police Mech.
Little John remains in Los Angeles to keep order of the tribe and rebuild society. Wataru destroys the Construction Mech but Sue is killed in the conflict. However, upon realizing that if she were not sacrificed another woman would be in her stead, she flees from the group to rejoin her tribe. Sue was to be offered as a bride to appease a "god", which in reality is a Construction Mech controlled by a man, but fled to escape her fate. Together the two travel to Los Angeles where they help save Sue and her father, Little John, from a mob.
Wataru encounters a strange woman named Sophia after she helps him escape from an encounter with an unmanned Police Mech Unit and agrees to take Sophia to New York City. However, as a result of the physical toll his body endured due to the government experiments, Johnny dies after encouraging Wataru to travel the world. Johnny helps Wataru regain his speech and teaches him other basic functions. Wataru befriends a young man named Johnny who, prior to the incident, was part of a government experiment designed to expand the memory capacity of the human mind and, therefore, was able to retain his memories. In the year 1999, the world has been reduced to an apocalyptic wasteland due to an inexplicable gust of wind that wiped even the most basic memories, such as speech and civility, from the minds of the world's populace. An English adaptation of the film was produced and released by Manga Entertainment on home video in Australia and the UK and by Central Park Media in North America. An anime film adaptation by Madhouse was released theatrically on December 22, 1990, directed by Kazuo Yamazaki. A Wind Named Amnesia ( Japanese: 風の名はアムネジア, Hepburn: Kaze no Na wa Amunejia), also known as The Wind of Amnesia in Australia and the United Kingdom, is a Japanese novel authored by Hideyuki Kikuchi, originally published in 1983 by Asahi Sonorama.
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