Assault Girls (2009)

Original title

アサルトガールズ

Directed by

Mamoru Oshii

Genre

cyberpunk, action film, girls with guns, science fiction film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 05m

Rated

16

Rating

4.7 of 10 from 44 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of female warriors battle giant mutant creatures in a virtual reality simulation. They team up to survive and score points in this desolate digital battlefield.

bleakfuturisticstylizedsparseaction-orienteddetachedcoldminimalistgritty

What happens

Assault Girls (アサルトガールズ) is a 2009 Japanese science fiction film written and directed by Mamoru Oshii. It was released in Japan on December 19, 2009. The movie was developed as a spiritual sequel to the Assault Girl: Hinako The Kentucky and Assault Girl 2 shorts Oshii directed as part of the Shin-Onna Tachiguishi Retsuden and Rebellion: The Killing Isle collections of short films respectively. It is also set in the same fictional universe as Oshii's Avalon 2001 film but it is not a direct sequel. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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