Underplayed Gems

Psycho-Pass: The Movie (2015)

Psycho-Pass: The Movie poster
Original title
劇場版 PSYCHO-PASS サイコパス
Directed by
Katsuyuki Motohiro
Genre
crime film, dystopian film, science fiction film, Action, Sci-Fi
Country
Japan
Runtime
1h 53m
Rated
NR
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 242 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Inspector Akane Tsunemori discovers a photo of her former colleague Shinya Kogami in a war-torn region. She travels to the Southeast Asia Union to find and arrest him because he has been training criminals there.

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What happens

Psycho-Pass: The Movie (Japanese: 劇場版 PSYCHO-PASS(サイコパス), Hepburn: Gekijō-ban Saiko Pasu) is a 2015 Japanese anime science fiction crime film produced by Production I.G. It features the voices of Kana Hanazawa, Tomokazu Seki, Hiroshi Kamiya, Ayane Sakura, Kenji Nojima, and Shizuka Itō. Set in a dystopia, the film focuses on inspector Akane Tsunemori, the Public Safety Bureau's Criminal Investigation Division Inspector, who finds a picture of Shinya Kogami who left Japan in the television series Psycho-Pass. As Kogami has trained criminals, the inspector travels to the Southeast Asia Union (SEAUn) to investigate and arrest him. Psycho-Pass: The Movie premiered in Japan on January 9, 2015. The film was directed by Naoyoshi Shiotani and Katsuyuki Motohiro (the latter serving as chief director), and co-written by Gen Urobuchi and Makoto Fukami. The staff had the idea of Tsunemori finding a renegade Kogami based on other films they had watched. The staff found the platonic relationship between the two lead characters appealing due to their trust in each other. The film has been licensed by Funimation; it was given a limited screening and was released on home media in English-speaking countries. Madman Entertainment and Anime Limited released it in Australia and the United Kingdom, respectively. Psycho-Pass: The Movie received generally positive critical responses due to building up the lore, the handling of the new setting, and the dynamic between the two leads. The English and Japanese voice actors were praised for their work. The film received criticism for not concluding the storylines presented in the first television series and for ignoring an unfinished character arc of Kogami. The film won two Newtype Anime Awards in 2015 and grossed a total of US$7,683,799 in Japan. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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