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Blade Runner: Black Out 2022 (2017)

Blade Runner: Black Out 2022 poster
Original title
ブレードランナー ブラックアウト 2022
Directed by
Shin'ichirō Watanabe
Genre
cyberpunk, science fiction film, science fiction anime, neo-noir, dystopian film
Country
United States, Japan
Runtime
15 min
Rated
PG-13
Rating
7.1 of 10 from 449 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

In 2022, a group of replicants stages a bombing to destroy a database that tracks them. A female replicant fights for survival against a blade runner hunting her down.

bleaknoirishtenseatmosphericaction-packeddystopianfast-pacedvisually stylized

What happens

Blade Runner Black Out 2022 (Japanese: ブレードランナー ブラックアウト2022, Hepburn: Burēdoran'nā Burakkuauto 2022) is a 2017 Japanese cyberpunk tech-noir anime short film directed by Shinichiro Watanabe and animated by CygamesPictures. The short is one of three short films (with 2036: Nexus Dawn and 2048: Nowhere to Run) that serve as prequels to the live-action film Blade Runner 2049. It debuted on 27 September 2017 on Crunchyroll. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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