Expelled from Paradise

"Where did humanity come from?"

2014 1h 44m JA

👍

6.5

SOLID

⭐

6.6

IMDB

★6.5TMDB · 106★6.6IMDB · 1,916

AnimationScience FictionActionAdventure

Synopsis

Spoiler shield

A.D. 2400, DEVA's central council detects an incident of unauthorized access into their mainframe. Someone on Earth was trying to hack into the system. The only information DEVA was able to retrieve was that hacker referred to themselves as "Frontier Setter." To investigate the mysterious hacker's motives, the high officials of DEVA dispatch system Security Third Officer Angela Balzac to the Earth's surface. Equipped with a prosthetic "material body," Angela attempts to make contact with a local agent Dingo, but what awaited her instead was a swarm of Sandworms now infesting the Earth's surface. Angela intercepts the gruesome pests with her exoskeleton powered suit Arhan.

“Where did humanity come from?”

WhatsApp X Facebook Telegram

Cast

Rie Kugimiya
Angela Balzac (voice)
Shin-ichiro Miki
Zarik 'Dingo' Kajiwara (voice)
Hiroshi Kamiya
Frontier Setter (voice)
Megumi Hayashibara
Christin Gillum (voice)
Minami Takayama
Veronica Kulikova (voice)
Kotono Mitsuishi
Hilde Thorwald (voice)
Kenta Miyake
Issac (voice)
Daichi Endo
Lazlo (voice)

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Seiji Mizushima
Writers: Gen Urobuchi, Gen Urobuchi
Languages: Japanese
Countries: Japan

Want more? Switch to Cinephile mode in the header for DP, composer, budget, box office, production companies, keywords, and release history.

Did you know?

Fun facts 🍿

1 / 8

ERA

Did you know

Released 12 years ago.

MoodPlayr · trivia#01

2 / 8

CINEMA

Did you know

Part of the "Expelled from Paradise Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

MoodPlayr · trivia#02

3 / 8

RUNTIME

Did you know

Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

MoodPlayr · trivia#03

4 / 8

DIRECTOR

Did you know

Directed by Seiji Mizushima, shot by Kojiro Hayashi. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

MoodPlayr · trivia#04

5 / 8

DIRECTOR

Did you know

Original score by NARASAKI. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

MoodPlayr · trivia#05

6 / 8

DIRECTOR

Did you know

Editor Masato Yoshitake shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

MoodPlayr · trivia#06

7 / 8

CAST

Did you know

Rie Kugimiya and Shin-ichiro Miki and Hiroshi Kamiya carry the top of the cast.

MoodPlayr · trivia#07

8 / 8

FACT

Did you know

Marketing tagline: "Where did humanity come from?".

MoodPlayr · trivia#08

Cinephile deep dive

The take

Seiji Mizushima directs. Kojiro Hayashi behind the camera. NARASAKI scores. Masato Yoshitake cuts. Produced in Japan. Dialogue in Japanese.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Released 12 years ago.
2Part of the "Expelled from Paradise Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
4Directed by Seiji Mizushima, shot by Kojiro Hayashi. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by NARASAKI. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Masato Yoshitake shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Rie Kugimiya and Shin-ichiro Miki and Hiroshi Kamiya carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "Where did humanity come from?".
9IMDB entry: tt2859246 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Classified under 9 themes, including "future", "virtual reality", "post-apocalyptic future", "mecha".