Garm Wars: The Last Druid (2014)

Directed by

Mamoru Oshii

Genre

science fiction film, adventure film

Country

Canada, Japan

Runtime

1h 32m

Rated

12

Rating

4.6 of 10 from 51 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Three soldiers from warring tribes desert their conflict to find the god who created their world and question why they are forced to fight. The band journeys across a barren landscape seeking answers about their existence.

slow-burnmeditativebleakphilosophicalvisually stylizedmysteriouscontemplativegrim

What happens

Garm Wars: The Last Druid is a 2014 English-language Japanese-Canadian live action/animated science fiction adventure film directed by Mamoru Oshii. It is also the first English-language film by Oshii, who is famous for his Japanese-language animated works including Ghost in the Shell and Urusei Yatsura. The film tells the story of three soldiers who abandon a genocidal war between tribes to seek answers about why their world has been abandoned by its god, and why the tribes were made to fight each other in the first place. The film had two separate releases, with its English version premiering at the Tokyo Film Festival of 2014 and its Japanese version being released on May 20, 2016. The Japanese version was released as simply Garm Wars, and was produced by Studio Ghibli director Toshio Suzuki, with Gen Urobuchi writing the Japanese script. According to Suzuki, the Japanese dub "tried to change the impression of the film without changing the content of a single line." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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