# Arion (1986)

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**Original title**: *アリオン*
**Runtime**: 119 min
**Genres**: Adventure, Action, Animation, Fantasy
**Directed by**: Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
**Written by**: Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, Akiko Tanaka
**Starring**: Shigeru Nakahara, Miki Takahashi, Mayumi Tanaka, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Bin Shimada, Masako Katsuki

> *Let the Gods beware!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You wake in Hades’ underworld clutching a chipped lyre and a mother you’ve never met, sold a lie that Zeus is the villain. But Olympus hides its own shadows and the gods do not play by mortal rules. A half-remembered hymn hums through crags older than time.

Yasuhiko frames mythic violence in an era when anime first bent history into future shock. What lingers is not the blade but the quiet after the strings break.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, outsider, slow-burn

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