Appleseed (film)

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Anime movie
title Appleseed
Original title ア ッ プ ル シ - ド
transcription Appurushīdo
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
Publishing year 2004
Studio Production IG
length approx. 105 minutes
genre Cyberpunk
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Shinji Aramaki
script Haruka Handa ,
Tsutomu Kamishiro
production Fumihiko Sori ,
Hidenori Ueki ,
Naoko Watanabe
music Ryūichi Sakamoto ,
Paul Oakenfold ,
T. Raumschmiere
synchronization

Appleseed ( Jap. アップルシ-ド , Appurushīdo ) is a computer animated film by the renowned Japanese Anime - director Shinji Aramaki in 2004 and is based on motifs from the eponymous manga by Masamune Shirow .

After the 70-minute anime movie Appleseed: Fight for Freedom, made in 1988, the production is already the second staging of the manga series of the same name , but this time with the latest animation technology.

The film was shown for the first time in Germany on April 15, 2005 as part of the Nippon Connection Film Festival . Released on December 12, 2005 in German by Universum Anime on DVD.

action

In the future, a devastating Third World War is raging with great cruelty and brutality, to which large areas of the earth have fallen victim. The nations of the world have perished. In this largely deserted urban landscape of the year 2131, which was marked by the long war, scattered troop members like the former police officer Deunan Knute are fighting an almost hopeless battle against superior machines. Since she has been acting without contact to her command center for months, she learns nothing of a peace treaty that has already been signed by the warring parties.

One day the legendary agent is overwhelmed by the Olympic police unit E SWAT in the outside world during a firefight and taken to the futuristic metropolis of Olympus. Olympus is a near non-violent environment protected by the Olympus Regular Army and an automatic defense system. The population of Olympus consists roughly equally of humans and of bioroids who contribute to a global new beginning and want to ensure the maintenance of a stable human society. Bioroids are genetically modified clones that cannot reproduce on their own. With them, feelings such as hatred, anger or love are largely suppressed. The city is ruled by bioroids under the supervision of the learning supercomputer GAIA and a council of seven people.

In this elite society, Deunan is welcomed by her missing friend and comrade in arms, Briareos Hecatonchires, who once succumbed to his serious injuries during a combat mission and has existed as a cyborg ever since . The bioroid Hitomi explains to Deunan what Olympus is and tries to win her over to his goals. The peaceful co-existence of humans and bioroids is threatened by attacks and the balance between humans and bioroids becomes imbalanced. In particular, the man-controlled military around their chief general Uranus believes that the bioroids are gaining too much power in Olympus and therefore want to eliminate them. In order to achieve this goal and, as it were, to get rid of the artificial humans, the regular military troops secretly carry out an attack on Tartarus. The new generation of bioroids is created there, but the existing clones also have to renew themselves in certain cycles, otherwise they will decay. With the attack on Tartarus, all bioroids are cut off from their life-extending measures and their continued existence is threatened. The military also want to destroy the D-tank installed on Tartarus. This is said to contain a virus that kills the bioroids.

The Olympic Prime Minister Athena, a bioroid to whom the special forces are subordinate, sends Deunan, Briareos and other police officers on a dangerous mission to find the "Appleseed" gene , which was previously believed to be lost. This gene is supposed to enable the clones to reactivate their reproductive abilities and thus to save themselves. In the course of her mission, Deunan learns that she already has the data. Her mother was the scientist who constructed the bioroids and gave Deunan the data in an amulet shortly before she herself was murdered.

Back at Olympus, Deunan discovers that the council of elders is also involved in the conflict and is using the supercomputer GAIA to take action against the people. The Council has come to the conclusion that humans are too violent to be allowed to continue to exist and wants to leave the field to the bioroids. Contrary to popular belief, the D-Tank does not contain a virus against the bioroids, but against human fertility - the human species is supposed to age and die out. The military surrenders at the last minute, but the council seduces GAIA into setting the mobile fortresses against the D-tank on the march to set the virus free. Deunan manages at the last second to stop the fortresses by entering a password in the controlling fortress. With the resignation of the council of elders, people and bioroids must now take their fate into their own hands. It remains unclear who completed the saving password with the last missing letter. It is suggested that this is a farewell gift from the council of elders and is intended to signal guidance for the future.

In the last shot of the film you can hear Deunan Knute's voice, who discusses her pessimistic future prospects with the viewer and wants to keep fighting for the next generation, the true new genre.

synchronization

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) German speaker
Briareos Hecatonchires Jūrōta Kosugi Frank Glaubrecht
Deunan Knute Ai Kobayashi Vera Teltz
1. Elder Electryon Ryuuji Nakagi Hans Teuscher
2. Elder Oionos Fumio Matsuoka Gerd Holtenau
3. Elder Cadmus Hirotake Nagata Peter Groeger
4. Elder Glaucus Toshihiko Kuwagak
5. Elder Deucalion Yoshiyuki Kaneko
6. Elder Hestia Ikuo Nishikawa
7. Elder Laius Takehiro Koyama
Yoshitsune Miyamoto Toshiyuki Morikawa Julien Haggége
Nike Miho Yamada Katrin Zimmermann
Uranus Yuzuru Fujimoto Klaus-Dieter Klebsch
Athena Mommy Koyama Liane Rudolph
Kudo Tadahisa Saizen Olaf Reichmann
Hades Takehito Koyasu Tobias Kluckert
Hitomi Yuki Matsuoka Ulrike Stürzbecher
ESWAT commander Walter Alich

Reviews

"The cinema version of an animated video of the same name was impressively implemented with the latest computer animation, and although it no longer has the ambivalence of the original, it nevertheless poses important questions about a 'worthwhile' future and entertains at a high level."

- Lexicon of international film

“'Appleseed' is a vision of the future in two ways: It is the first anime that was created 100 percent on the computer, you have to add: based on a manga template. Because 'Final Fantasy' already exists, but it was like a computer game. What most anime, and this one for sure, can do pretty damn well is to set things in motion in mostly breathtakingly futuristic settings. "

- Dietmar Kammerer : film review, the daily newspaper from September 12, 2005

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Appleseed. Universum Film GmbH, accessed December 8, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Appleseed. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ cf. Archive link ( Memento from December 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

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