Stars: Ai Kobayashi, Jurota Kosugi, Yuki Matsuoka, Asumi Miwa, Akimoro Tsubasa

Director: Shinji Aramaki

Summary: Based on Masamune Shirow's acclaimed manga, APPLESEED is a haunting and thrilling vision of an apocalyptic future in which human life is slowly being controlled by a new breed of Biodroids, creatures that are half android, half man. In this future, the remnants of the world's governments create a city named Olympus near the Canary Islands designed to be a utopia. However, this utopia is controlled by the Biodroids, and soon the human population has had enough. Rallying together a band of terrorists, the humans decide that they must destroy Gaia, the computer that runs Olympus, thereby freeing themselves and delivering a fatal blow to the reeling superpowers.

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The 2004 Appleseed feature is a reworking of the earlier video based on the manga by Masamune Shirow (Ghost in the Shell). In 2131, most of humanity has withdrawn to the glittering city of Olympus after a devastating war. When the curvaceous Deunan Knute comes to Olympus, she encounters her former comrade Briareos, now a cyborg, and the lovely android Hitomi. The fate of Hitomi, Olympus, and humanity rest on the lost "Appleseed" technology that Deunan's mother helped to develop. A standard series of chases, mecha battles, and confrontations leads to a predictable ending. When the original Appleseed appeared in 1988, it felt like a summary of anime's past, while Akira pointed the way to the future. This new version feels like a mishmash of Ghost in the Shell, Akira, Jin-Roh, Evangelion, and other, more exciting works. The motion-capture CG is typically weightless, and the mecha look oddly squat. --Charles Solomon

Main Language:	Japanese
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Commentary By The Director And The Producer, Birth Of 3D Live Anime Featurette, Design Archives, Character Gallery, Trailers
Subtitles:	English
Release Date:	September 19, 2005
Runtime:	104 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	O P T D 0238
Keywords:	Animated, Steel, Subtitled, Two, Box, General, Edition, Fiction, Limited, Science, Dubbed, Animation, Japanese, Horror, Discs, Appleseed, Sci, Fi
Genre:	Science Fiction