Underplayed Gems

Fumoon (1980)

Fumoon poster
Original title
フウムーン
Directed by
Osamu Tezuka
Genre
science fiction film
Country
Japan
Runtime
1h 31m
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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The catalogue in 3D

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How it feels

A boy and his dog encounter strange events involving a mysterious crystal. The story follows their discovery of a hidden civilization under the earth.

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What happens

Next World (Japanese: 来るべき世界, Hepburn: Kitarubeki Sekai), also known as Nextworld, is a Japanese science fiction manga series, written and illustrated by Osamu Tezuka in 1951. It is the third and final work in what is regarded as Osamu Tezuka's early science fiction trilogy, consisting of Lost World (1948), Metropolis (1949) and Nextworld (1951). Though they are separate, self-contained stories, they are often collected together in reprints. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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