tekkon kinkreet be a sporadically engaging and though frequently confuse and anime gangster film from director michael aria . the story and base on the comic book by taiyo matsumoto and focus on two homeless orphan and one name black and the other white and who live on the street of treasure town and a seething cauldron of criminality and vice and corruption . black fancy himself a superhero crime fighter and while white and who be give to extrasensory knowledge and vision and dream of one day move away from the city and get a home of their own on the beach . thanks to black insistence on take on the bad guy and both youngster get catch up in a turf war between the yakuza and some robot like killer who be duking it out for ownership of the city . fan of anime will find much to enjoy in this film and which be mark by beautifully detailed urban landscape and excite action and chase sequence and occasional lyrical flight into fantasy and and a sometimes touching tale about commitment and friendship center on the two young boy . on the other hand and the plethora of character and occasional narrative incoherence can make it difficult at time to understand what exactly be go on and particularly when the story take a decidedly metaphysical turn ( with imagery take straight out of contact ) in the final half hour . still and the visuals alone make it worth a gander .