is a 2009 Japanese

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live-action feature film written and directed by

Mamoru Oshii is a Japanese filmmaker, television director and writer. Famous for his philosophy-oriented storytelling, Oshii has directed a number of acclaimed anime films, including ''Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer'' (1984), ''Angel's Egg'' (1985), '' ...

. It was released in Japan on December 19, 2009. The movie was developed as a spiritual sequel to the '' Assault Girl: Hinako The Kentucky'' and ''Assault Girl 2'' shorts Oshii directed as part of the '' Shin-Onna Tachiguishi Retsuden'' and '' Rebellion: The Killing Isle'' collections of short films respectively. It is also set in the same

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as Oshii's ''

Avalon Avalon () is an island featured in the Arthurian legend. It first appeared in Geoffrey of Monmouth's 1136 ''Historia Regum Britanniae'' as a place of magic where King Arthur's sword Excalibur was made and later where Arthur was taken to recove ...

'' 2001 film but it is not a direct sequel.

Synopsis

In the aftermath of global thermonuclear war, three battle tested women wage war against giant mutant sandwhales in the arena ''Avalon(f)'' of a virtual reality video game called ''

''. All of them seek to kill "Madara Sunakujira" the arena's end boss but find that despite their high levels, are unable to engage it alone as they wish, forcing them to form a party to defeat it together. "Gray," a sniper who travels flying in her own plane, "Lucifer," a black-dress-wearing girl who can turn into a giant crow and uses magic spells, "Colonel," a woman in burgundy armor who uses an

FN FAL The FAL (, English: Light Automatic Rifle) is a battle rifle designed in Belgium by Dieudonné Saive and manufactured by FN Herstal and others since 1953. During the Cold War the FAL was adopted by many countries of the NATO, North Atlantic Trea ...

with M203, and "Jäger," a drifter who uses a powerful sniper rifle and relies on his luck (despite the

Game Master A gamemaster (GM; also known as game master, game manager, game moderator, referee, storyteller, or master of ceremonies) is a person who acts as a facilitator, organizer, officiant regarding rules, arbitrator, and moderator for a multiplayer r ...

telling him his luck stat is very low). The four defeat Madara, but unfortunately for Jäger, only the first person to turn in the quest gets the points, all the girls having flying transports while he's left on foot. In anger Jäger shoots them all down and declares himself a " player killer", and all of them engage in a fire fight.

Cast

Meisa Kuroki Satsuki Shimabukuro (Japanese: 島袋さつき, ''Shimabukuro Satsuki'', Born on 28 May 1988 in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan), better known by her stage name Meisa Kuroki (Japanese: 黒木メイサ, ''Kuroki Meisa''), is a Japanese actress, mod ...

- Gray * Rinko Kikuchi - Lucifer * Hinako Saeki - Colonel * Yoshikatsu Fujiki - Jäger *Ian Moore - Game Master/Narration *Isao Keneko - NEET *Takanori Tsujimoto - NEET

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