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Saru No Gundan (1974)

Saru No Gundan poster
Original title
猿の軍団
Genre
science fiction television program
Country
Japan
Length
1 season, 26 episodes
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

In the future, apes have taken over the Earth and humans are the underclass. The series follows a group of people struggling to survive in a world ruled by intelligent apes.

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What happens

Saru no Gundan (SFドラマ 猿の軍団; Army of the Apes) is a 1974 Japanese science fiction television series, that ran on the Tokyo Broadcasting System, from 6 October 1974 to 30 March 1975. Consisting of twenty-six half-hour episodes, the series capitalised on the success of Pierre Boulle's 1963 novel La Planète des singes, which was known in English as Planet of the Apes, and the film and television franchise. Beyond the basic plotline of a futuristic Earth ruled by apes, Saru no Gundan takes nothing from the Planet of the Apes franchise. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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