Weird Earth Flippin Times
I came across the photo 5 years ago and simply loved the contrast of a shipwreck crashing into a high rise. Its just a really good depiction for weird earth flippin times.
Anyhow, I finally managed to ask myself where this photo is actually from or the story behind it. I found the answer after a good rabbit hole session.
The photo in question, is the final scene from “The Fist Of The North Star” a Japanese Anime from 1986.
Similar to many Japanese anime the film is about a nuclear war that turns the world into a post apocalyptic vast ruin of the future – you know the one, where everyone goes punk and a handful of super vilans & heroes would fight for control of the world and the love of one woman. The film is as big as Akira, but not as popular. In fact, it is considered the granddaddy of all adult themed anime, even daddier than Akira critics would say. At the end, the moral story of the film is about respecting mother earth, since throughout the film this little girl who always carries a flower is on a mission to plant it.
The Shipwreck is really the last scene of the film. Like at the very end even after the credits roll, where the protagonist Kenshiro walks in a desert but then dreams of being in nature and meeting the love of his life Yuria only to realize its only a mirage and by looking up the Shipwreck then appears.
The ending soundtrack is as dreamy as the scene.