Battle Angel (1993) (V) Gunnm (original title)

Director:

Hiroshi Fukutomi

Writers:

Yukito Kishiro (comic) and
Akinori Endo

Release Date:

1993 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Action | Crime | Drama | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

Hunter Warrior

Plot:

This movie takes place in a distant future, and is the story of a the young cyborg Gally, who is found on a scrapheap by the Cyberdoctor Daisuke Ido...

Plot Keywords:

Bounty Hunter | Future | Cyborg | Based On Manga | Scientist

Cast

Miki Itô	...	Gally (voice)
Amanda Winn Lee	...	Gally (as Amanda Winn)
Shunsuke Kariya	...	Ido (voice)
Kappei Yamaguchi	...	Yugo (voice)
Mami Koyama	...	Chiren (voice)
Shigeru Chiba	...	Vector (voice)
Kôji Totani	...	Zavan
Kazuyuki Sogabe	...	Gime (voice)
Takumi Yamazaki	...	Tanji (voice)
Ryûzaburô Ôtomo	...	Grewcica
Michitaka Kobayashi	...	Rasha (as Sanshiro Nitta)
Kazuhiko Kishino	...	Gonz
Naoki Makishima
Shinobu Satouchi
Tomoko Maruo
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Bryan Bounds	...	Gime (voice)
Angel Fisher	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
John French	...	Guryushika (voice: English version)
Matt Greenfield	...	Grewcica, Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Tamsin Hollo	...	Chiren (voice: English version)
Aaron Krohn	...	Zavan (voice: English version)
Guil Lunde	...	Ido
Tristan MacAvery	...	Vector (voice: English version)
Stuart Milligan	...	Ido (voice: English version)
Larissa Murray	...	Alita (voice: English version)
Andy Orjuela	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Rick Peeples	...	Gonz, Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Lorraine Reyes	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
William Roberts	...	Gime (voice: English version) (as Bill Roberts)
Dan Rockwell	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Jennifer Rutherford	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Doug Smith	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Spike Spencer	...	Yugo (voice: English version)
Kurt Stoll	...	No.10, Tanji, Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Edward Wakefield	...	Yugo (voice: English version)

Directed by
Hiroshi Fukutomi

Writing credits
Yukito Kishiro		(comic)
Akinori Endo

Produced by
Matt Greenfield	....	producer
Kazuhiko Ikeguchi	....	producer
Joichi Sugito	....	producer

Original Music by
Harada Soichiro
Kaoru Wada

Cinematography by
Hitoshi Yamaguchi

Film Editing by
Yukiko Ito
Satoshi Terauchi

Sound Department
Yukio Abe	....	sound recordist

Special Effects by
Kaoji Tanifuji	....	special effects

Animation Department
Takashi Hashimoto	....	animator
Yoshinobu Ineno	....	animator
Kumiko Kawana	....	animator
Masahiro Kimura	....	animator
Masayuki Kobayashi	....	animator
Osamu Kobayashi	....	animator
Mamoru Kurosawa	....	animator
Toshiya Niidome	....	animator
Tetsuhito Saitô	....	animator
Shin'ya Takahashi	....	animator
Hiroto Tanaka	....	animator
Sumio Watanabe	....	animator
Nobuteru Yuuki	....	character designer

Other crew
Rintaro	....	supervisor

Production Companies

• K.S.S.
• Movic

Also Known As:

"Gunnm" - Japan (original title)

Runtime:

54 min | Argentina:60 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

English | Japanese

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Australia:M | UK:15 | USA:R | Iceland:16 | Argentina:13

Company:

K.S.S.

Trivia:

The original name of Zalem, was "Tiphares". This name was from the manga.

Movie Connections:

Version of Battle Angel (2017)

Good story, that gets disjointed, mostly because of its short running time.

You can really tell by watching this film that the source material it is based on is really excellent. The story is a fine and compelling one, that is filled with fantasy elements and is set in a sort of future post-apocalyptic world. Because of this fact, I'm also positive of it that the James Cameron version of this movie called "Battle Angel" is going to be absolutely great.

This animated movie version is also a good one but unfortunately also heavily flawed.

The biggest problem with the movie is that it's very short, with as a result things get rushed. Also every sequence feels incredibly short. Every time you think you're going to get to see a big long fight sequence, it's already over again. It also makes the storytelling disjointed at times. Villains are keep getting introduced throughout the movie, until you finally start to loose interested at who is actually supposed to be the biggest and main villain of the movie. Some characters really made a redundant impression and they did not got the treatment they obviously deserved. The movie is also over before you know it, with a sort of an incomplete ending that will also give you an unsatisfied feeling.

The storytelling and build-up really isn't the greatest within this movie, although that isn't anything too uncommon for a Japanese anime, it still is a bit worse than acceptable in this case. The movie really gave me the feeling it had so much more potential, if it only had a better budget and production time span. It now unfortunately never reaches the level of true excellence and certainly is not among the top Japanse anime's.

Nevertheless the movie has plenty of qualities that make this a watchable one. The story is one of them, even though it's potential isn't fully used. The imaginary futuristic world and concepts within this movie are just so fine. It also has a fine love-story, that however also gets very rushed in the movie. The short action within the movie was also fine, which was mainly thanks to those awesome looking cyborgs with each their own special fighting powers and weapons. The movie is also filled with plenty of gore.

It's a certainly good watchable movie but still I would wait for the James Cameron movie version if I were you.

7/10

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