Wonderful Days

Wonderful Days (2003), released internationally as Sky Blue, is a Korean animated sci-fi feature you can watch online on iFILM. The future it imagines is grim: Earth has choked on its own waste.

The survivors built one last city, Ecoban, kept alive by a cruel paradox — it draws its power from pollution itself. Inside the walls the elite live clean and comfortable; out in the Marr lands, everyone else slowly suffocates. Suha, born outside, slips into Ecoban to shut down the system poisoning his people. Standing in his way is Jay, his childhood friend, now part of the city's security force and torn between her duty and her past.

Director Kim Moon-saeng blended hand-drawn cels with miniatures and CGI, giving the film a tactile, hand-built look that's the real reason to watch. Eighty-six minutes of bleak eco-dystopia for viewers who prize animation for its mood over its flash. Stream Wonderful Days (2003) online on iFILM.