Avalon

Release Date: 2001.
Rating: Classic.
In the future world, young people are living for the thrill of fighting (and potentially dying) in fully-immersive VR battle simulation game called Avalon. Although highly illegal, the game is both addictive and profitable with skilled players being able to earn a living in the game. When Ash, a star player, hears of rumors that a more advanced level of the game exists somewhere, she gives up her loner ways and joins a gang of explorers. The deeper she goes, the more her sense of reality is challenged as she attempts to unravel the true nature and purpose of the game. And if she finds the gateway to the next level, will she ever be able to come back to reality?

Avalon (Japanese: アヴァロン, Hepburn: Avaron), also known as Gate to Avalon, is a 2001 Polish-language Japanese science fiction drama directed by Mamoru Oshii and written by Kazunori Itō. The film stars Małgorzata Foremniak as Ash. Avalon was filmed in Wrocław, Nowa Huta, the Modlin Fortress and Warsaw. The 2009 film Assault Girls that was written and directed by Oshii, is a stand-alone sequel set in the same fictional universe as Avalon.

Cast & Credits:
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Kazunori Itô
Stars: Malgorzata Foremniak, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Jerzy Gudejko
Score: Kenji Kawai.