Origin: Spirits of the Past

Here's a futuristic eco-fable, for those who find Miyazaki too subtle. A boy named Agito is tasked with rescuing his friend Toola from a reawakened forest. At least there are some cool designs amid the earnest moralizing.

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Keiichi Sugiyama directed Origin: Spirits of the Past in 2006. See Keiichi Sugiyama's full filmography, where to start with Keiichi Sugiyama, or where to go after you've seen everything by Keiichi Sugiyama.

Origin: Spirits of the Past was released in 2006 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 95 minutes.