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Appleseed

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Deunan Knute (Ai Kobayashi) is a female warrior who survives the Global War. When she meets her old love, Briareos Hecatonchires (Jûrôta Kosugi), she finds that he has become a cyborg due to his injuries from the war. Deunan soon learns that a new race of cyborgs called Bioroids have been created in the peaceful city of Olympus. However, Deunan also discovers that something is sabotaging the Bioroids, causing their lives to be very short, so she dedicates herself to finding out the cause.
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Critics Consensus

While visually arresting, Appleseed's narrative and dialogue pondering existentialism is ponderous, awkward, and clumsy.

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J. R. Jones Chicago Reader 04/25/2007
The stock characters and leaden stretches of expository dialogue are welcome evidence that there's still no computer program capable of telling a decent story. Go to Full Review Maitland McDonagh Time Out 02/09/2006
Shut your brain down for optimal viewing pleasure. Go to Full Review Tasha Robinson AV Club 09/26/2005
It's busy, stiff, artificial graphics are a perfect match for its busy, stiff, artificial plot. Go to Full Review Bill Gibron DVDTalk.com 09/26/2009
4.5/5
It's an exceedingly brilliant combination of future shock set-up and old school moralizing, a deconstruction of what it means to be human rendered in tech tones so slick that you often forget you're watching a cartoon. Go to Full Review Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed 04/29/2009
2/4
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Igor K Jul 20 a thoroughly enjoyable lighter of the 3 films - imho the plot is good and the villain concept is timeless See more Anderson O @Platinum2027 Jan 31 Well CGi animated introduction to Appleseed for a new generation. A very confusing plot to follow, but actions scenes later deliver and an abrupt ending. The scope and setting, character designs in the CGI world of Appleseed don’t disappoint either. See more Greg B 10/06/2024 One absolutely unforgiveable choice by the writers was turning Deunan Knute, a confident survivor and partner to Briareos into a conflicted mommas girl! It was as though the writers never even read the Manga? See Nintendos take on Samus Aran for a similar screwup! This movie is barely watcheable but the soundtrack is good. See more Liam D @Mediawatcher2003 08/03/2024 It’s animation is beautiful but the story, voice acting and story are very unoriginal See more 08/24/2020 Sadly this succumbs to the constants problems with anime sci fi, exposition is managed in the worst possible way, they think that they are doing a complex worldbuiling narrative with twist after twist when they are just making the pacing unsuferable and convoluted. This cell shaded art style is way more unique and interesting than the one used in the sequels. See more 04/11/2020 Definitely better than "Alpha", and certainly having some great aspects, but there are a number of detractors inhibiting me from giving it a higher score. Check out my full review at https://geekyngodly.blogspot.com/2020/04/appleseed-2004-was-it-better.html See more Read all reviews
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Shinji Aramaki

Director

Ai Kobayashi

Deunan

Jûrôta Kosugi

Briareos

Yuki Matsuoka

Hitomi

Yuzuru Fujimoto

Uranus

Mami Koyama

Athena
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Synopsis Deunan Knute (Ai Kobayashi) is a female warrior who survives the Global War. When she meets her old love, Briareos Hecatonchires (Jûrôta Kosugi), she finds that he has become a cyborg due to his injuries from the war. Deunan soon learns that a new race of cyborgs called Bioroids have been created in the peaceful city of Olympus. However, Deunan also discovers that something is sabotaging the Bioroids, causing their lives to be very short, so she dedicates herself to finding out the cause.
Director
Shinji Aramaki
Screenwriter
Haruka Handa, Tsutomu Kamishiro
Production Co
Geneon Universal Entertainment, Digital Frontier, Anime Network
Rating
R (Some Violence)
Genre
Fantasy, Action, Sci-Fi, Anime
Original Language
Japanese
Release Date (Theaters)
Mar 5, 2004, Original
Rerelease Date (Theaters)
Jan 14, 2005
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 3, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$125.0K
Runtime
1h 45m