A woman between life and death sees her younger self with her old friends in a city that isn't real. The plot is just scaffolding for what actually matters: whether she chooses to stay in the dream or wake up to a life four decades later. It's a forty-year-old movie that understands grief the way only science fiction can, by making the impossible choice feel like the most human one possible.
Remy Shimada lies between life and death following a devastating accident. Four decades after the TV series, the former GoShogun pilot crashes while rushing to a reunion with her old teammates, and they gather at her hospital bed alongside some of their former enemies. Unconscious, Remy relives scenes from her youth and finds herself in a strange city full of hostile fanatics, where she and her friends are all young again. Each member of the team receives a grim letter foretelling a gruesome death, and Remy is fated to die in two days, both in the dream and in the waking world. Haunted by visions of her own end and by a menacing girl with a panther-like cat, she leans on memories of her friends as the team fights its way toward the temple at the heart of the City of Fate. Built around Remy, the only woman on the team, this sci-fi action film spins off from the giant robot series.
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