If you loved Phoenix 2772, try Bagi, the Monster of Mighty Nature

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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Phoenix 2772

1980 · dir. Osamu Tezuka, Taku Sugiyama

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Bagi, the Monster of Mighty Nature

1984 · dir. Osamu Tezuka

What they share

Both films are directed by Osamu Tezuka, and they both carry the outsider mood tag, and they sit in Animation / Science Fiction territory. If that's the register that drew you to Phoenix 2772, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Bagi, the Monster of Mighty Nature is

The Island of Dr. Moreau if anime. A lab escapee with feline features finds a friend in a lonely boy. Years later, they meet again as Ryosuke investigates suspicious cattle deaths. Tezuka's oddball eco-parable is a product of its time.

If you loved Phoenix 2772, try Bagi, the Monster of Mighty Nature

Phoenix 2772

Bagi, the Monster of Mighty Nature

What they share

What Bagi, the Monster of Mighty Nature is

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