Appleseed Alpha

Appleseed Alpha
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  • アップルシード アルファ
  • Japan 2014, Blu-ray, 93 min, Japanese with English subtitles, FSK 12
  • Director: Shinji ARAMAKI
  • Script: Marianne Krawczyk, based on a manga by Masamune SHIROW
  • Production: Lucent Pictures Entertainment
  • CGI Director: Masaru MATSUMOTO
  • Music: Tetsuya TAKAHASHI
  • Distribution: Sony Pictures
  • Voice cast: Yuka KOMATSU, Junichi SUWABE, Aoi YUKI

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The two soldiers-turned-mercenaries Deunan and Briareos are fed up with working for a local gang boss in post-apocalyptic New York. When they meet a young girl on a secret mission they grasp the chance to help her out. Shinji ARAMAKI’s reboot of the APPLESEED franchise doesn’t only offer an epic tale of life and death but also impresses with state-of-the-art CGI-animation.

Director Bio
Born in Fukuoka Prefecture in 1960, Shinji ARAMAKI started out in the animation sector as a mecha designer. In the 1980s he was given the chance to direct single episodes of anime series he was working on as a designer. His first feature film was the CGI­anime APPLESEED (2004) that was followed up in 2007 by the sequel APPLESEED EX MACHINA (NC '08), produced by John Woo. Together with Katsuhiro OTOMO and Mamoru ISHII, he is considered to be one of the leading Anime directors.

Filmography
2004 Appleseed; 2007 Appleseed Ex Machina (NC ’08); 2012 Starship Troopers: Invasion; 2013 Space Pirate Captain Harlock (Uchu kaizoku kyaputen Harokku)


  • Supporting film: HASHI NO MUKO
  • von Shigeyoshi TSUKAHARA, Japan 2012, 11 min, Japanese with English subtitles

 

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