Shinji ARAMAKI 荒牧伸志
Appleseed Alpha
アップルシード アルファ
Nippon Animation ³
The two soldiers-turned-mercenaries Deunan and Briareos are fed up with working for a local gang boss in post-apocalyptic New York. When they meet a young girl on a secret mission they grasp the chance to help her out. Shinji ARAMAKI’s reboot of the APPLESEED franchise doesn’t only offer an epic tale of life and death but also impresses with state-of-the-art CGI-animation.
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Appleseed Alpha (NC 2015)
アップルシード アルファ
Japan 2014
93 minutes
Director
Shinji ARAMAKI
Script
Marianne Krawczyk based on a manga by Masamune SHIROW
Music
Tetsuya TAKAHASHI
Production
Lucent Pictures Entertainment
Distribution
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Voice acting
Yuka KOMATSU, Junichi SUWABE, Aoi YUKI
About Shinji ARAMAKI
荒牧伸志
Born in Fukuoka Prefecture in 1960, Shinji ARAMAKI started out in the animation sector as a mecha designer. In the 1980s he was given the chance to direct single episodes of anime series he was working on as a designer. His first feature film was the CGIanime APPLESEED (2004) that was followed up in 2007 by the sequel APPLESEED EX MACHINA (NC '08), produced by John WOO. Together with Katsuhiro OTOMO and Mamoru ISHII, he is considered to be one of the leading Anime directors.