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A Balasaur Score of 80 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 8/10, Rotten Tomatoes 91%, Metacritic 68/100. Audiences rate it 12 points higher than critics do. Scores higher than 89% of the 207 1980s animation movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.
Ratings
IMDb8/10
Rotten Tomatoes91%
Metacritic68/100
Audiences rate it 12 points higher than critics do.
4,966 audience votes
Key crew
- Izo HashimotoScreenplay
- Shoji YamashiroOriginal Music Composer
- Katsuhiro OtomoDirector
- Katsuhiro OtomoScreenplay
Cast
- Mitsuo IwataShotaro Kaneda (voice)
- Nozomu SasakiTetsuo Shima (voice)
- Mami KoyamaKei (voice)
- Taro IshidaColonel Shikishima
- Mizuho SuzukiDoctor Ônishi
- Tessyo GendaRyûsaku (voice)
- Koichi KitamuraPriestess Miyako / Council A (voice)
- Yuriko FuchizakiKaori (voice)
- Masaaki OkuraYamagata (voice)
- Takeshi KusaoKai (voice)
- Kazuhiro KamifujiMasaru / No. 27 (voice)
- Tatsuhiko NakamuraTakashi / No. 26 (voice)
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Themes
The Best Movies of 1988
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