1985 · sci-fi · mecha · cyberpunk
Megazone 23
Directed by Noboru Ishiguro, Ichiro Itano, Yasuo Hasegawa1h 21m1985
A young biker stumbles onto a prototype motorcycle with a hidden function that has a link to the true nature of his world.
Our read: Megazone 23 (1985) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive sci-fi · mecha · cyberpunk entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured sci-fi / mecha, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- inventive
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