Three back-to-back anime films by three different directors make up this sci-fi trilogy three years in the making.
Direction
Three distinct visions: Otomo's dread, Morimoto's psychedelia, Okamura's satire.
Sound
Yoko Kanno's Magnetic Rose score—operatic, crushing, unforgettable.
Director
Katsuhiro Otomo
Tsutomu Isobe
Heinz Beckner (voice)
Koichi Yamadera
Miguel Costrela (voice)
Shozo Iizuka
Ivanov (voice)
Shigeru Chiba
Aoshima (voice)
Gara Takashima
Eva Friedel (voice)
Hideyuki Hori
Nobuo Tanaka (voice)
Kenichi Ogata
Oomaeda (voice)
Osamu Saka
Kamata (voice)
Hisako Kyoda
Grandma (voice)
Michio Hazama
Nirasaki (voice)
Kayoko Fujii
Sakiko (voice)
Ryoichi Tanaka
General Officer (voice)
Tetsuya Iwanaga
Nobuo's Brother (voice)
Yuu Hayashi
Boy (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Otomo's segment Stink Bomb was originally supposed to be serious before he pivoted to absurdist comedy mid-production.
Magnetic Rose's haunted spaceship directly influenced later sci-fi horror including Event Horizon and even Alien: Covenant's aesthetic.
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