1980 · sci-fi · space · drama
Toward the Terra
Directed by Hideo Onchi1h 53m1980
A young boy learns he is part of a powerful race of psionic humans who must fight the normal humans determined to keep them from Earth.
Our read: Toward the Terra (1980) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive sci-fi · space · drama entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured sci-fi / space, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- epic-stakes
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“You want 80s Japanese anime about psychic youths fighting to reclaim their Earth.”
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