Shinji ARAMAKI 荒牧伸志
Appleseed: Ex Machina
エクスマキナ
Nippon Cinema ª
Following a war that killed half the world’s population, the city Olympus stands as a beacon of hope in a world of chaos. Deunan and her lover Briareos, a cyborg-soldier, are members of an elite special forces serving Olympus. The two fighters find their partnership tested by the arrival of a new member to their ranks – an experimental Bioroid named Tereus. At the same time, Olympus finds itself under a stealth attack by a mysterious cabal of scientists.
エクスマキナ
Appleseed saga ex machina
Japan 2007
105 minutes
Director
Shinji ARAMAKI
Script
Kiyoto TAKEUCHI based on a manga by Masamune SHIROW
Music
Towa Tei, Cornelius, Hasymo, Haruomi HOSONO
Production
"EX MACHINA" Film Partners
World sales
Micott & Basara
Voice acting
Ai KOBAYASHI, Koichi YAMADERA, Yuji KISHI, Jurota KOSUGI, Yuki MATSUOKA
About Shinji ARAMAKI
荒牧伸志
Born in Fukuoka Prefecture in 1960, Shinji ARAMAKI started out in the animation sector as a mecha designer. In the 1980s he was given the chance to direct single episodes of anime series he was working on as a designer. His first feature film was the CGIanime APPLESEED (2004) that was followed up in 2007 by the sequel APPLESEED EX MACHINA (NC '08), produced by John WOO. Together with Katsuhiro OTOMO and Mamoru ISHII, he is considered to be one of the leading Anime directors.