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| Title : Roujin-Z |
| Version : Dubbed |
| Nr. cassette : 1 |
| Based on story from : Katsuhiro Otomo |
| Screenplay : Katsuhiro Otomo |
| Character design : Hisashi Eguchi |
| Publisher : Manga Video |
| By the year 2020, a quarter of Japan's population will be over 65, the highest proportion of old people in any industrialised nation. With this as his inspiration, Katsuhiro Otomo - internationally acclaimed for his cyberpunk masterpiece Akira - has created another bold vision of the future in Roujin-Z. Directed by Hiroyuki Kitakubo, it presents a solution to the problem of elderly care in the form of Z-001, a robotic life-support system programmed to respond to a pensioner's every need with maximum efficiency and minimum compassion. However, initial trials on the unsuspecting Mr Takizawa bring about some alarming results, implying the real reason behind the machine's development. |
