GoShogun: The Time Étranger

A somber, dreamlike drift between hospital bedside and hostile hallucinated city, unsettling and quietly devastating rather than action-driven.

Directed by

Kunihiko Yuyama

Genres

Action, Animation, Science fiction

Starring

Kaneto Shiozawa, Daisuke Gori, Shojiro Kihara

Tagline

In The Face Of Inevitability, Would You Accept It, Or Struggle To The End?

Overview

Forty years after the events of the TV series, Remy Shimada, ex-pilot of the GoShogun, suffers a terrible accident while on her way to a meeting with her former robot-piloting comrades. While they rush to the hospital, Remy floats between life and death. She sees visions of her life when she was young, and stranger still, experiences a hallucination of being with her friends, all of them young again, in a mysterious city filled with hostile fanatics. Far from being the reunion Remy hoped for, a ghastly letter arrives for each member of the team that predicts their gruesome deaths. Slated to die in two days, both in reality and in her dream, Remy struggles to find a way out of the City of Fate, relying on the memories of her friends to see her through, even as they surround her death bed in the waking world.

How it feels

Melancholic, eerie, tense and earnest. Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Death, memory, friendship, isolation

Content

Mild violence, gore and language. No sexual content.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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