If you loved Time of the Apes, 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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Time of the Apes

1987 · dir. Kiyozumi Fukazawa, Atsuo Okunaka

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Bagi, the Monster of Mighty Nature

1984 · dir. Osamu Tezuka

What they share

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

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 Time of the Apes, try Bagi, the Monster of Mighty Nature

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What they share

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