If you loved Birth, try Megazone 23

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Birth

1984 · dir. Shinya Sadamitsu

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Megazone 23

1985 · dir. Noboru Ishiguro, Yasuo Hasegawa, Ichiro Itano

What they share

Theysit in Animation / Science Fiction territory. If that's the register that drew you to Birth, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What Megazone 23 is

Here's an anime that really wants you to think about late capitalism. A motorcycle gang member finds a mysterious government bike that unlocks secrets about their artificial city. It's a pretty effective riff on Plato's cave, if you happen to be into transforming robots.

If you loved Birth, try Megazone 23

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What they share

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