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All movies seen on 04/12/2022

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GoShogun: The Time Étranger (1985)

Directed by Kunihiko Yuyama

Science Fiction | Action | Animation

Overview

Forty years after the events of the TV series, Remy Shimada, ex-pilot of the GoShogun, suffers a terrible accident while on her way to a meeting with her former robot-piloting comrades. While they rush to the hospital, Remy floats between life and death. She sees visions of her life when she was young, and stranger still, experiences a hallucination of being with her friends, all of them young again, in a mysterious city filled with hostile fanatics.  Far from being the reunion Remy hoped for, a ghastly letter arrives for each member of the team that predicts their gruesome deaths. Slated to die in two days, both in reality and in her dream, Remy struggles to find a way out of the City of Fate, relying on the memories of her friends to see her through, even as they surround her death bed in the waking world.

Length 90 minutes

Actors

Kaneto Shiozawa | Daisuke Gouri | Shôjirô Kihara | Hideyuki Tanaka | Hirotaka Suzuoki | Mami Koyama | Fumio Matsuoka | Chiyoko Kawashima | Tomiko Suzuki | Toshiko Fujita | Yumi Takada | Nobuyo Tsuda | Shozo Iizuka | Kan Tokumaru | Yuusaku Yara | Masashi Hironaka | Bin Shimada | Seiko Nakano

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

Haven’t seen the tv series this is based on but regardless this is a weird take on the story (unless the tv show is similarly weird like this). I didn’t care so much about this as most of the story is told via flashbacks, which I assume are the events that occur during the tv show. The key member and only woman of the team is in the hospital on her death bed with her teammates around her and in her mind she relives events in her life.

Of course I like this 80s animation style but little else here. Altho, I would watch the tv show if it’s more straightforward action storytelling.

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