A god wearing a man's face falls in love with a weapon that was built to think. Five Star Stories doesn't explain itself, doesn't pause for you to catch up, and somehow that obliteration of exposition makes every frame hit harder. Kazuyoshi Katayama built a world so dense and strange that 90 minutes feels like you've watched five movies, each one more impossible than the last. The mecha designs are architecture, not just steel. What the film actually cares about isn't the empire or the war or the system, it's the moment a god realizes he's become small enough to need someone else. You will rewatch this.

In the Joker Star System, Amaterasu, god of light and future emperor, hides behind the identity of Ladios Sopp, a young designer of mecha. His old friend Dr Ballanche presses him to rescue the two newest Fatimas, Lachesis and Clotho. That rescue opens the chronicles of the Joker System and begins Amaterasu's love for Lachesis. The film is a science fiction fantasy that mixes action, drama and giant robots.