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Assault Girls (2009)

Assault Girls poster
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
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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.

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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)

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