Writer-director Shuko Murase patiently teases out Itoh's unwieldy and dark themes of political skulduggery, military outsourcing and public apathy.

For all its style, there is something unconvincing about this.

The production hell has left noticeable scars in the animation quality, but fortunately they are not a major distraction, especially not in the light of the film's disturbing insightfulness.

"Genocidal Organ" is an impressive anime film that manages to capture some part of the novel's complexity, thus rising above the average of the plethora of action titles.