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Appleseed

Appleseed

Animation · Action · Science Fiction · 2004

In a utopian society created at the end of World War III, a female warrior who has been plucked from the badlands begins to see cracks in this new facade. And what does this community have planned for the rest of humankind?

Movie details

Appleseed

“Humanity's last chance for survival.”

2004 Animation · Action · Science Fiction 1h 45m

Critical arithmetic

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TMDB

6.7 / 10

Community rating

In a utopian society created at the end of World War III, a female warrior who has been plucked from the badlands begins to see cracks in this new facade. And what does this community have planned for the rest of humankind?

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What this film says about your taste.

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The archetype split

Who fights over Appleseed?

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The people responsible.

Directed by

Shinji Aramaki

Written by

Haruka Handa · Tsutomu Kamishiro

Ai Kobayashi

Ai Kobayashi

Deyunan (voice)

Asumi Miwa

Asumi Miwa

Deyunan (motion actor)

Jurota Kosugi

Jurota Kosugi

Buriareosu (voice)

Yuki Matsuoka

Yuki Matsuoka

Hitomi (voice)

Yuzuru Fujimoto

Yuzuru Fujimoto

Uranosu (voice)

Takehito Koyasu

Takehito Koyasu

Hadesu (voice)

Mami Koyama

Mami Koyama

Atena (voice)

Court is in session

Put Appleseed on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Adrenaline Seeker

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.