If you loved Turn A Gundam II: Moonlight Butterfly, try Mobile Suit Gundam I

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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Turn A Gundam II: Moonlight Butterfly

2002 · dir. Yoshiyuki Tomino

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Mobile Suit Gundam I

1981 · dir. Ryoji Fujiwara, Yoshiyuki Tomino

What they share

Both films are directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino, and they sit in Animation / Science Fiction territory. If that's the register that drew you to Turn A Gundam II: Moonlight Butterfly, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What Mobile Suit Gundam I is

You wake aboard a space station in the UC 0079 era when Zeon declares war on the Federation. Then the colonies start falling. The film stops to watch a boy survive the first battle between humans and machines.

If you loved Turn A Gundam II: Moonlight Butterfly, try Mobile Suit Gundam I

Turn A Gundam II: Moonlight Butterfly

Mobile Suit Gundam I

What they share

What Mobile Suit Gundam I is

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