Okay, its look is a bit cliché at this point after Sin City, 300 and The Spirit, but that doesn’t make this any less awesome.

Steven Hodson messaged me last night with a link to a movie called The Cup of Tears, and told me I had to check it out. Well, I did, and … wow. Visually it isn’t anything we haven’t seen before at this point, but that doesn’t change the fact that it was a hell of a lot of fun to watch.

Steven also sent me a link to an article about the film that made it just that much more fascinating.

… Gary Shore’s The Cup of Tears, a gorgeous CGI hybrid samurai sci-fi movie being made in Ireland. This was shot on the Red camera in Slovenia …

Okay, an Irish guy making a movie in Slovenia that is set in a futuristic Japan … you have to love a movie that needs a map just to figure out its production.

It totally looks like a Japanese Anime come to life, and while I don’t envision it doing huge box office, it still looks like it will be a lot of fun to see at least in the visual sense, although the story looks slightly odd (where in the world do the futuristic air ships come from at the end of the trailer?), but as is the way with these movies, they can easily become style over substance.

At least watch the trailer and enjoy the eye candy.

The Cup of Tears film trailer. Dir. Gary Shore from Gary Shore on Vimeo.