Roots Search
Roots Search | |
ルーツ・サーチ 食心物体X (Rūtsu Sāchi Shokushin Buttai Ekkusu) | |
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Genre | horror, science fiction |
Original video animation | |
Directed by | Hisashi Sugai |
Produced by | Kiyoshi Shoji |
Written by | Michiru Shimada |
Music by | Osamu Shooji |
Released | September 10, 1986 |
Runtime | 45 minutes |
Roots Search (ルーツ・サーチ 食心物体X, Rūtsu sāchi-shoku kokoro buttai X) is a 1986 science fiction horror original video animation directed by Hisashi Sugai. It was released on September 10, 1986.[1]
The story is that of a research crew on a space station find a desolate ship with only one survivor. The crew is then stalked by a psychic alien who wishes to kill them. The plot and setting bears a lot of similarities to the 1979 film Alien.
Voice actors
- Banjou Ginga as Norman
- Kenyuu Horiuchi as Buzz
- Osamu Kobayashi as Marcus
- Yusaku Yara as Alien X
- Hideyuki Tanaka as Sander
- Kaneto Shiozawa as Scott
- Keiko Han as Moira
- Michitaka Kobayashi as Raymond
- Shigeru Muroi as Catherine
Production
Roots Search is directed by Hisashi Sugai, whose only other credit is as a producer for the MD Geist.
Release
It was released on laserdisc and VHS in the United States.[2] The soundtrack was released on vinyl record.
Reception
On Anime News Network, Justin Sevakis said "There is simply nothing good about Roots Search. It's stupid, ugly, badly dated, and annoying."[2] Other reviewers noted the similarities to the film Alien, going so far as to call it "derivative dreck".[3]
References
- ^ ルーツ・サーチ 食心物体X (1986). allcinema (in Japanese). Stingray. Retrieved September 28, 2014.
- ^ a b Justin Sevakis (Mar 20, 2008). "Buried Garbage - Roots Search". Anime News Network. Retrieved September 28, 2014.
- ^ "Roots Search". Forgotten Junk. 13 August 2009. Archived from the original on 22 June 2011. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
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External links
- Roots Search: Shokushin buttai X at IMDb
- Roots Search (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- 1986 anime OVAs
- 1980s science fiction horror films
- 1986 horror films
- Direct-to-video horror films
- Direct-to-video science fiction films
- Horror anime and manga
- Japanese direct-to-video films
- Japanese films
- Japanese animated science fiction films
- Japanese science fiction horror films
- Science fiction anime and manga
- 1986 films
- Science fiction horror film stubs
- Anime film stubs