009 Re:Cyborg

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Japanese: 009 RE:CYBORG

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Type: Movie

Episodes: 1

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Oct 27, 2012

Producers: Nippon Television Network, Ishimori Pro

Licensors: Funimation, NYAV Post

Studios: Production I.G, SANZIGEN

Source: Manga

Genres: Action, Adventure, Mecha, Sci-Fi

Duration: 1 hr. 43 min.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 6.51¹ (scored by 5,713 users)

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Ranked: #5892²

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Popularity: #4395

Members: 14,573

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Synopsis

Nine regular humans from different parts of the world are abducted and transformed into cyborgs with astounding powers for the purpose of being used as weapons. The nine cyborgs rebel and start to fight against their creators in the name of justice and world peace. Decades later, the nine cyborgs seem to be untouched by time, but they live in a world where "justice" has as many nuances as the number of people living on the planet. What is their place in the world now?

"In the beginning was the Voice, and the word was Him; and all obeyed His word in great awe. But those who dwelt upon the land, through vanity, cunning and greed, attempted to build a multitude of towers whose tops reached unto heaven, and accumulated great wealth on earth. Scattering across the land and laying it to waste, man turned a deaf ear to His Voice. So He gave unto man an opportunity to atone for his misdeeds; and flame and smoke and the roar of a lion descended upon earth; and shattered the many towers to dust...."

(Source: Production I.G Official Website)

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Background

Winner of the Platinum Grand Prize during the 2013 Future Film Festival, held in Italy.

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Related Anime

Adaptation:	Cyborg 009, 009 Re:Cyborg
Alternative version:	Cyborg 009: The Cyborg Soldier, Cyborg 009 (1979), Cyborg 009 (TV)
Other:	Pepsi Nex x 009 Re:Cyborg, 009 Re:Cyborg x Zip, Seishain Cyborg 003
Sequel:	Cyborg 009: Call of Justice 1

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Characters & Voice Actors

Shimamura, Joe

Main

Miyano, Mamoru
Japanese

Heinrich, Albert

Main

Ookawa, Tooru
Japanese

Link, Jet

Main

Ono, Daisuke
Japanese

Arnoul, Françoise

Main

Saitou, Chiwa
Japanese

Great Britain

Main

Yoshino, Hiroyuki
Japanese

Whisky, Ivan

Main

Tamagawa, Sakiko
Japanese

Changku, Chang

Main

Masuoka, Tarou
Japanese

Pyunma

Main

Sugiyama, Noriaki
Japanese

Geronimo Jr.

Main

Tanzawa, Teruyuki
Japanese

Gilmore, Isaac

Supporting

Katsube, Nobuyuki
Japanese

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Staff

Ishii, Tomohiko

Producer

Matsuura, Hiroaki

Producer

Kamiyama, Kenji

Director, Screenplay

Hayashi, Yuuichirou

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Reviews

May 30, 2015

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 1

Furrett (All reviews)

22 people found this review helpful

As a large fan of the Cyborg 009 series, this movie felt like a personal offense. The movie is a darker, 'realistic' reimagining on the series and its characters. This isn't inherently a bad thing, of course, but it comes off as following the current trend of gritty remakes instead of trying to understand its source material.

The plot is confusing whether you are familiar with the show or not. It might help to be acquainted with the characters and their backstories beforehand, but the movie doesn't even try to explain its own universe. What little there is of the story is given through large, boring read more

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Mar 1, 2015

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 9

femto999 (All reviews)

14 people found this review helpful

There's a new fashion in the anime industries the last few years were old school manga are either adapted to anime (like Parasite and Jojo's bizarre adventure) or they are getting reboots (like Sailor moon and Hunter x hunter). Yet in Cyborg 009's case things are different. The classic manga of Ishinomori sensei has three anime adaptations and even more movies. Is like the anime industry wants to introduce to every new generation this classic story. I myself have watched the 2001 version when I was a kid and I can say in a way that I grew up with it. I recently watched it again to remember those times and then watch this movie. Well I can say that the results didn't dissapointed me at all.

The story in this movie has a lot of changes than the anime. Actually this movie is loosely based on Ishinomori's epic. This happened because this movie had a big problem. How could it to introduce to teenagers nowadays who grew up with fast paced anime, with lots of gore and fights like Tokyo ghoul, Naruto, Bleach and many more, a story that was written in the middle of the 70's. In order to manage this the movie ditches the somehow naive story of the anime and takes the story's setting to today's world. I liked it that. Sure it didn't remind me at all the classic anime but as I said this is mostly a try to introduce the story to teenagers today. And I believe it did it very well. I had a little problem with the plot though. I would like it if it wasn't so much Americanized. But I will explain this later. Also it isn't necessary to see the anime but I would recommend it if you want to know some things about the characters.

About the animation itself I can't find words to describe it. Production IG did a stunning job. The animation is amazing and the movie doesn't loose any opportunity to show it off in almost every scene. I was captivated by it right from the first moment. I couldn't find any flow in it no matter how hard I tried. If I could rate it with mark above 10 i would gladly do it. Another thing that I liked in this movie was the sound. A first class budged movie demands a first class voice actors. Mamoru Miyano, Daisuke Ono, Toru Okawa Noriaki Sugiyama and all the other seiyuus did an excellent job capturing their characters personalities almost as good as voice actors of the 2001 anime's. Also this movie had excellent OST's and really good sound effects. For the latter you just have to listen to Ivan's voice every time he speaks.

The characters was the weakest link of this movie. Because the characters wouldn't appeal to the teenagers with their obsolete 70's animation changes were made not only in their design (which was fair I have to say) but mostly in their personalities. The movie introduced the characters like they were an X-Men rip off. Because of the already mentioned Americanization the characters were made to look like American superheroes and this way a little bit of their personalities was lost. In either way if you haven't seen any of the previews anime adaptation I don't thing you will have a big problem with this.

Summarizing, I have to say that I was really pleased with this movie. It didn't looked like the anime series at all but I don't think this was a problem. It did a fairly good job at introducing Joe and the others in the new generation. I'm really curious to see if there's gonna be another adaptation. Who knows maybe in a decade or so we will see a crossover between between the 00 cyborgs and X-men. I would like to see that.

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Jul 25, 2013

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 7

theDeva (All reviews)

10 people found this review helpful

Now before beginning a few things that I need to say. I haven't watched the original 009 series which was aired before i was even born but I have watched the 2001 remake when it aired in my country. I have forgotten most of the storyline but I do remember bits and pieces and the feeling that I had when watching it. Cyborg 009 (2001) was possibly the second anime I watched and it was absolutely stunning! at that time. My review down below is taking into consideration what I felt when I first watched the series.

When I watched the movie I was initially excited at the way they had changed the character designs and added a touch of freshness.

For those of you who have already watched any of the previous series, NOSTALGIA IS ILL ADVISED. Yes, the characters are a bit nostalgic, yes the action is a bit nostalgic and yes, the overhaul with CG looks amazing initially BUT here are somethings you may not swallow very well. (Forgive me if they seem irate.)

One, I may not remember the 2001 series that well but I most certainly definitely absolutely remember it was lucid and simple plot that my childish brain could follow with ease. Okay, so that generation is all grown up and needs adult material, alright... BUT that does not mean you should make it into some freakin' goddamn Evangelion plot with HIS voice governing all. Yeah, yeah I know you don't give a damn about God but why use it just to give your plot some pseudo-intellectual pseudo-religious air. I mean was 009 ever this psychological?! Hell no. WTF is Freud doing in a sci-fi, battle anime which was much better without that complex mind-curdling crap.
If i want to watch psychological complexity and Freud's theories I'd much rather watch Evangelion and Ergo Proxy. They just ruined a totally fine storyline because they couldn't come with an antithesis? Man, I'm beyond words at this.

Two, the characters. Well given the short timespan, they did a fine job at introducing the characters. But they cannot be fleshed out as well as they were in the series. The sense of familiarity is reduced because the characters hardly get much time except 009 of course. The rest have to spew the stupid psychological shit in the extremely limited time they get. I'm wondering if they forgot about half of the team less than halfway through the movie. But well I liked Joe and Francoise, and their little eyecandy, so ok...

Third, the art and animation. In my view it is clearly rushed and subpar. If they think that CG can make it astounding they are so wrong. The character designs are more elaborate but not well rounded. The animation is clearly so stiff that I am thoroughly disappointed. This possibly due to overuse of CG in every aspect. Guess they didn't want much fine-tuned work on it eh? But the backgrounds and special effects are done quite well.

If you can get past all of those this movie is enjoyable enough. The action scenes are fine and the sound tracks are good. For someone like me who was a big fan of the original series, it is enjoyable even if a turnoff.

Bottomline, Rushed anime, Altered plot, Unneeded improvisation but worth a watch.

LOL I seem really sarcastic here. But believe, it is worth watching even if just for the eye candy.

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Sep 9, 2014

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 6

blueprincen (All reviews)

9 people found this review helpful

Re: Cyborg 009 is, in a word, disappointing. As a fan of the 2001 series since childhood and a great admirer of the studio which worked on this (Production I.G., who are responsible for such wonderful series as Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex) I expected great things from this darker, more realistic take on the classic franchise. Sadly, despite a promising start and beautiful animation, the film falls flat on its' face, resulting in something which may be worth watching once, but which cannot stand up to even the most cursory analysis.

It would be terribly easy to blame this film's failings as yet another example of why remaking children's series as "dark" and "gritty" doesn't work, but to do that would be to disrespect the source material. Why Ishinomori's manga and the preceding anime series were definitely goofy, there has always been an undercurrent of mystery and intrigue to them that is very compatible with darker tones. Sadly, the writer of this film seems to have confused "dark" with "unnecessarily confusing" and "intelligent" with "random statements about God with no connecting thread".

The plot is, for one thing, completely impenetrable to new viewers. If one is not already familiar with the franchise, this film offers only a few badly-executed lines of exposition to explain to you who exactly these
characters are, and does even less to show why you should care about them. This would not be so much of a problem if the premise of the film
and it's status as a stand-alone universe within the Cyborg 009 canon did
not seem to set it up as a jumping-on point for new viewers. The main
character begins the film with amnesia for god's sake, and yet he regains
his memories incredibly unceremoniously, without even the briefest of
flashbacks to hint at his origins. Instead, this is infodumped to you almost
halfway through the film, at which point it might have been better not to mention it at all.

For all the story's numerous failings and it's failure to highlight what
makes these characters interesting, the film at least looks good. Surprisingly, even someone like me who is normally squeamish about CGI mixing with 2D animation, the action sequences are not only dynamic but fluid in a way that
evokes the best of action cinema, making full use of the cyborgs' fantastic powers. Of particular note is the film's rendition of Jet Link, who visually puts
all previous incarnations of the character to shame. A pity the same can't be said for his personality.

Overall, I would recommend this movie most to people who have not interest whatsoever in the source material, but who appreciate good fight
choreography and beautiful animation. If you care about the series at all and/or are unable to turn your brain completely off in order to soak in disjointed action scenes, then you should probably watch the 2001 TV series instead to get your cyborg fix.

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