1991 · animation · sci-fi · comedy
Roujin Z
Directed by Hiroyuki Kitakubo1h 20m1991
Mr. Takazawa, an elderly invalid who is cared for at his home by Haruko, a young nursing student, is chosen by the Japanese Ministry of Public Welfare to test the Z-001, a computerized hospital bed with robotic features that allegedly displays more efficiency and skills than any human nurse, but Haruko mistrusts a machine unable to consider human feelings.
Our read: Roujin Z (1991) reads as a neutral, kinetic, surreal animation · sci-fi · comedy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured animation / sci-fi, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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- surreal
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