To combat computerised crime more effectively, the Cyber Police unit of the future Japanese city of Oedo has restarted the feudal practice of hōmen (放免), employing hardened criminals with a history of hi-tech offences and other crimes such as murder as officers themselves, despite this being, quite clearly, a terrible idea.
This is really good anime!! For some reason I find the 80s anime style of cyberpunk highly nostalgic. And Cyber City Oedo 808 is the very essence of 80s cyberpunk! There are three main characters. Each episode focuses on a different one. My favorite character is androgynous guy, because every time he's on the screen it's confusing. This anime is dark, bloody, violent, has bizarre sci-fi stories, and giant 80s hairstyles. It has everything we'd expect from 80s cyberpunk. I thoroughly enjoyed this anime series. I recommend it!
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Three such lucky men: Shunsuke Sengoku, the foulmouthed anti-hero; Merrill "Benten" Yanagawa, the effeminate razor-wire wielding assassin-type; and Gabimaru "Gogol" Rikiya, the imposing, gruff hacker with the cool visor, are put under the watch of Juzo Hasegawa, the warden. Hasegawa assigns these men to various incredibly dangerous cases throughout the dystopian city of Oedo (while never stated explicitly, it is assumed that this city is Tokyo in the distant future, given that Oedo is a variation of "Edo", the name of Tokyo until 1868).
Trois détenus à de fortes peines d'enprisonnement du nom de Shunsuke Sengoku, Merril Yanagawa alias Benten et Gabimaru Rikiya alias Goggles se voient proposer un choix: purger à vie leur peine dans leur prison orbitale ou bien intégrer la cyber police en échange d'une réduction de peine à chaque criminel arrêté.
Nel 2808 tre cyber criminali, Sengoku, Benten e Gogol, sono condannati a scontare da 295 a 375 anni di carcere in un penitenziario orbitale per essere entrati in sistemi informatici segreti, appartenenti ai militari e al governo, e per aver compiuto assassinii nella città di Oedo. La vita in carcere è noiosa e monotona quindi, quando il responsabile della polizia cibernetica Hasegawa propone loro, in cambio di uno sconto di pena ad ogni missione svolta con successo, di far parte del corpo di polizia, nell'ambito di un programma volto ad utilizzare carcerati con esperienze di furto di dati informatici e omicidi per dare la caccia a criminali che la polizia regolamentare si rifiuta di catturare, a causa della pericolosità delle missioni, i tre criminali accettano. Sengoku, Benten e Gogol entrano al servizio di Hasegawa, che li controlla attraverso dei collari allacciati attorno al loro collo, collegati ad un accendino con incorporato un detonatore. Per ogni missione, gli agenti ricevono un tempo determinato e, se la missione fallisce o non la portano a termine nella durata stabilita, i loro collari esplodono, uccidendoli. Per ogni missione portata a successo, i tre ricevono uno sconto della pena carceraria: più la missione è difficile e pericolosa, più anni vengono tolti alla pena detentiva.
In the city of Oedo 2808a.d., three Cyber criminals are given two choices, to either rot in jail or to join a special force of the Cyber Police to get possibly one more chance at freedom ever again. For each criminal apprehended, and for each successful mission done, the state will agree to reduce their sentences. Lead by Hasegawa, the new recruits: Sengoku, Gogul, and Benton will bring some hard justice to Oedo and possibly taste freedom again.
It feels like cyberpunk has been done dirty for the last two decades or so, whether it's through film, novels or video games. It's either overly idealized, myopic or just framed within a very shallow context. I guess it just doesn't feel hopeless or bleak enough; its criticism of capitalism not harsh enough. I don't know.
The Anime Marches On! 2020 Challenge (12/32)Five anime films from the 90s (2/5)--Eight centuries from now a trio of tech-savvy criminals are recruited by the authorities to help fight cybercrimes in exchange for reduced prison sentences. They're unleashed on downtown Tokyo with electronic collars on their necks to keep them in line and yet, to no one in the audience's surprise, carnage and mayhem soon follow.
With an innovative cyberpunk premise that doesn't feel lifted in bits and pieces from other notable science fiction films (something that is too often the case with old-school anime), a neat far-future setting, interesting characters, and some occasionally funny dialogue, Cyber City Oedo 808 is a very solid OVA. It may lack some of the stylistic "wow" factor possessed by larger, better-known Japanese animation productions from around this time, but it's still a well done entry in the genre that probably gets overlooked far more than it should.
Synopsis: The year is 2808. The place: Oedo, a cybernetic megalopolis of the future where the dreams of a brighter tomorrow are drowning in a tide of violence, vice and villainy. Driven to breaking point, the forces of law and order are left with no choice but to use the very criminals they capture to help hunt their own kind.
Enter hardened cyber criminals Sengoku, Gogul, and Benten. Presented by police chief Hasegawa with a stark choice, they must decide to either rot in jail for the rest of their lives, or join a special force of the Cyber Police and possibly get one more chance at freedom.
For those who have no idea what Cyber City Oedo 808 is, or why this Blu-ray release is so significant, Cyber City Oedo 808 is a three-part original video animation (OVA), initially released in 1990. The series focuses on three criminals, Sengoku, Gogul, and Benten, who are given the opportunity to reduce their sentences, by investigating deadly crimes on behalf of the city police force.
Each episode of Cyber City Oedo 808 runs around 45 minutes in length, and focuses on a different character. The series sits firmly in the cyber punk genre and deals with a mix of subjects, including horrific A.I, experimental cyborgs, and vampirism.
135 minutes Select Showtime to Purchase Tickets Select Showtimes Computer-possessed skeleton psychic troopers, bio-vampires and the eternal neon glow of the megalopolis. It's CYBER CITY OEDO 808- anti-carceral cyberpunk anime at its best!Originally released in 1991 as a three-part OVA, CYBER CITY follows a group of prison inmates forced into hunting down wanted criminals in order to reduce their own hefty prison sentences. In a dramaturgical conceit reminiscent of BATTLE ROYALE, the neo-fascist corporate state handlers affix explosive collars to our protagonists' necks which also track their movements and listen in on their conversations. If they drop off the grid or disobey orders, they'll lose their heads. Its an all-too-relatable circumstance.The film's hard-edged futuristic dystopia is indeed strikingly similar to the digitized hellpath that our own capitalist overlords have put us on. The contemporary hyper-fetishization of cyberpunk's least appealing aesthetical affects (NFTs, cryptocurrency, Elon Musk) is at once predictable and maddening. Any casual reader of William Gibson or Philip K. Dick knows that the central conceit of cyberpunk is that the natural endgoal of capitalist extraction is a corporatized neo-feudalism marked by extreme societal disrepair and the commodification of all things. But with CYBER CITY OEDO 808 let's respawn to a time when cyberpunk also meant mohawks, monowires, triple-decker cities, telekinetic robots, screaming guitar riffs, glam-synth techno fashions, summoning cyber demons, gratuitous gore, immature profanity, cyborg sabretooth tigers armed with laser guns, and uh, vampires. From Yoshiaki Kawajiri, the director of such gorgeous sleaze as WICKED CITY, DEMON CITY SHINJUKU and NINJA SCROLL, this one delivers all the thrills of staying up past bedtime just to see a glimpse of tomorrow.In Japanese with English subs. A New Movie Theater in Columbia City
To combat computerised crime more effectively, the Cyber Police unit of the future Japanese city of Oedo has restarted the feudal practice of hōmen (放免), employing hardened criminals with a history of hi-tech offences and other crimes such as murder as officers themselves.
Sarah is a supporting character from the cyberpunk OVA Cyber City Oedo 808. A brilliant cyber-criminal, she was once partnered with the hacker Gogol before he was arrested and later recruited as a Cyber Police hound.
Cyber City Oedo 808 (サイバーシティ OEDO 808 Saibaashiti Oedo 808?) è una miniserie OAV di genere cyberpunk, realizzata dalla Madhouse e diretta tra il 1990 ed il 1991 da Yoshiaki Kawajiri. La serie si compone di tre episodi, ambientati nella città futuristica di Oedo (ex Tokyo) nel 2808. 2ff7e9595c
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