Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01
1987 41m movie Film Japan

Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01

メタル スキン パニック MADOX-01

Synopsis

メタル スキン パニック MADOX-01

Ace female test pilot Kusomoto Elle humiliates macho tank driver Lt. Kilgore in the first demonstration of the advanced personal battle tank, the MADOX. Kilgore vows revenge, and gets his chance when the army rather carelessly loses the prototype in Tokyo. The MADOX is found by engineering student Sujimoto Kouji, who doesn't take the time to completely read the manual and ends up zooming around Tokyo trapped in a machine he doesn't quite know how to operate. Guess who gets the job of stopping the now mobile missing MADOX? Poor Kouji. If he's late for his date, it's over between him and his girlfriend. His current attire redefines the term "over-dressed." And to top it all off, Kilgore wants to make him late- as in "the late Kouji!"

The 1986–1988 Japan Window

99 Japan films released in this three-year window, ranked here by audience rating. Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01 sits at position #92.

  1. Legend of the Galactic Heroes
    #1

    Legend of the Galactic Heroes

    ★ 9.0 · 1988

  2. The Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye
    #2

    The Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye

    ★ 8.6 · 1986

  3. Silver Fang
    #3

    Silver Fang

    ★ 8.6 · 1986

  4. Grave of the Fireflies
    #4

    Grave of the Fireflies

    ★ 8.5 · 1988

  5. Saint Seiya
    #5

    Saint Seiya

    ★ 8.5 · 1986

  6. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
    #6

    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

    ★ 8.3 · 1986

  7. Dragon Ball
    #7

    Dragon Ball

    ★ 8.2 · 1986

  8. My Neighbor Totoro
    #8

    My Neighbor Totoro

    ★ 8.1 · 1988

Titles With Overlapping Themes

Films and series that share thematic tags with Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.

The 1980s Japan Landscape

Catalog density by release year in the 1980s. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01 premiered. 280 total titles in this decade from Japan.

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Reception Benchmarks

5.4
TMDB Rating
14
Audience Reviews
Mixed
Critical Tier

Ranked #4,298 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (6th percentile by TMDB audience score).

Rating is -1.5 points below the Japan average of 6.9/10.

Among Japan Science Fiction productions specifically: #504 of 566 (top 89%).

Production Details

Primary Country Japan
Original Language Japanese
Production Companies Studio ARTMIC
Runtime 41m
Release Date December 16, 1987
IMDb tt0093529

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