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.