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Movie Description 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 have 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.
Synopsis It is just after the savagery that was World War III. Terrorist have targeted the beautiful city of Olympus, and only Duenan and her cyborg partner Briareos can stop them.(Central Park catalog)
Film Notes DVD Features:
Region 1 Keep Case Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - English Stereo - Japanese Additional Release Material: Manga Previews Interactive Features: Scene Access Interactive Menus Text/Photo Gallery: Character Bios Japanese Production Credits Manga Fan Club DVD-ROM Features: Web Links
Original Japanese version Copyright 1988, 1994 Masamune Shirow/Seishinsha/T.B.M.
Manga Entertainment produced their own English-language dubbing for their release of "Appleseed."
The Central Park Media video release went on moratorium August 1, 1996.
Industry Reviews "[D]azzling visually..." Los Angeles Times - Kevin Thomas (01/14/2005)
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