1986 · comedy · parody · action
Project A-ko
Directed by Katsuhiko Nishijima1h 23m1986
Earth. The not too distant future. A city is miraculously reborn just sixteen years after being completely destroyed by a giant meteor. At the prestigious Graviton High School for Girls, two new students are introduced. A-ko and her ditzy sidekick, C-ko.
Our read: Project A-ko (1986) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive comedy · parody · action entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, measured comedy / parody, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- inventive
- funny
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