# Appleseed (1988)

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**Original title**: *アップルシード*
**Runtime**: 66 min
**Genres**: Crime, Animation, Science Fiction
**Directed by**: Kazuyoshi Katayama
**Written by**: Kazuyoshi Katayama
**Starring**: Masako Katsuki, Yoshisada Sakaguchi, Toshio Furukawa, Norio Wakamoto, Toshiko Sawada, Mayumi Shou

> *Urban combat in the city of dreams*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You patrol Olympus as a rookie with a cyborg partner who reads your mind and you like it. Lieutenant gets assigned to bomb site that shouldn’t exist. The city’s dome flickers like an old bulb.

**Mood tags**: neon-soaked, raw

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