Movies and TV shows like Psycho-Pass
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Psycho-Pass (2012)
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Original name: PSYCHO-PASS サイコパス
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
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Psycho-Pass is a Japanese anime television series that takes place in the future where it is possible to instantaneously measure a person's mental state, personality, and the probability that a person will commit crimes with a device installed on each citizen's body called the Psycho-Pass. It follows members of Unit One of the Public Safety Bureau's Criminal Investigation Division and the crimes they investigate.
Style:
anime, atmospheric, stylized, suspenseful, futuristic, bleak, serious, psychological, manga, adult animation ...
Plot:
cyberpunk, human nature, master criminal, police investigation, partners against crime, graphic violence, investigation, death, criminal, mastermind, psychology, chase, anarchist, dystopia, distopia, life is a bitch, society, dystopian future, anarchy, policewoman, violent content, sociology, police, psychopath, mature ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
japan
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Most similar movies to Psycho-Pass
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, suspenseful, serious and stylized films and TV series with plots about investigation, police, danger, violence, rivalry, cyberpunk and society mostly in Animation, Sci-Fi and Mystery genres. Some movies like Psycho-Pass: Ghost in the Shell (1995), Psycho-Pass: The Movie (2015), Cowboy Bebop (1998), Rin: Daughters of Mnemosyne (2008), Serial Experiments Lain (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster' begins ...
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anime, atmospheric, philosophical, futuristic, mind bending ...
Audience:
kids, adult
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cyberpunk, artificial intelligence, androids and robots, hacker, female protagonist, cyborgs, dystopia, policewoman, distopia, female spy, chase, hacking ...
Time:
future, near future, 90s, year 1995, 2020s ...
Place:
japan, tokyo, east asia, asia
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100%
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Year 2116—The Japanese government begins to export the Sibyl System unmanned drone robots to troubled countries, and the system spreads throughout the world. A state in the midst of a civil war, SEAUn (the South East Asia Union), brings in the ...
Style:
anime, adult animation, adult anime, exciting, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
cyberpunk, escape, terrorism, conspiracy, injustice, investigation, police, murder, artificial intelligence, military police, trap, interrogation ...
Time:
near future
Place:
japan, southeast asia, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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In 2071, roughly fifty years after an accident with a hyperspace gateway made the Earth almost uninhabitable, humanity has colonized most of the rocky planets and moons of the Solar System. Amid a rising crime rate, the Inter Solar System Police ...
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anime, futuristic, serious, exciting, neo noir ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, teens, adult
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bounty hunter, friendship, jazz, fighting crime, unlikely partners, chases and races, space travel, spaceship, escapades, outer space, buddies, machismo ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
space western
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min.
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Rin Asogi is an immortal private detective with a thirst for vodka and a talent for attracting things that go bump in the night. In a series of nightmarish vignettes spanning sixty-five years, Rin's lush body is sadistically pierced, blown up, ...
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anime, ecchi, adult animation, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
lust, hermaphrodite, orgy, supernatural, immortality, private detective, haunted by the past, cloning, bisexual, oral sex, violence, danger ...
Time:
90s, year 1990, year 2011, 20th century, future ...
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Strange events begin to occur as a withdrawn girl named Lain becomes obsessed with interconnected virtual realm of "The Wired".
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psychological, anime, mind bending, serious, surreal ...
Plot:
computer, suicide, cyberpunk, cyberspace, fictional reality, society, surrealism, computers and web, mature, alice in wonderland, hacker, girl ...
Time:
future
Place:
tokyo, asia, japan
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
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Beauty is only skin deep, but when you can’t see beneath the skin, how can you know what you’re really dealing with? In a world where perfect androids called Boomers have infiltrated every aspect of society, it’s the job of Branch to maintain ...
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anime, futuristic, exciting, serious, stylized ...
Plot:
androids and robots, cyberpunk, society, supernatural, imaginary, chaos and mayhem, parallel world, dystopian future, ghost, man versus machine, rivalry, life is a bitch ...
Time:
future
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
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In an alternate version of the present, Tokyo has been decimated by a shocking terrorist attack, and the only hint to the identity of the culprit is a bizarre video uploaded to the internet. The police, baffled by this cryptic clue, are powerless to ...
Style:
anime, psychological, touching, tragic ending, suspenseful ...
Plot:
terrorist bombing, conspiracy, terrorism, orphan, tragic hero, hacker, tragedy, childhood friend, death of protagonist, police, human experiment, terrorist ...
Place:
tokyo, japan
Similarity:
60%
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Genre: Animation, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects—and he’s bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and ...
Style:
anime, manga, suspenseful, serious, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, kids, manly, boys' night
Plot:
mind game, anti hero, secret identity, law enforcement, rivals, heart attack, battle of wits, fighting crime, supernatural, vigilante, serial killer, supernatural ability ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
53%
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Genre: Animation, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan, Poland
Duration: 24 min.
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Kenzou Tenma, a Japanese brain surgeon in Germany, finds his life in utter turmoil after getting involved with a psychopath that was once a former patient.
Style:
psychological, anime, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, false accusation, doctor, murder, protagonist as suspect, guilt, mastermind, manipulation, choice, hospital, nihilism, investigator ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 70s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
germany, europe, czech republic
Similarity:
75%
110K
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient's dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it: Paprika.
Style:
surreal, psychological, philosophical, psychedelic, adult animation ...
Audience:
kids, teens, adult
Plot:
dream, trippy, lucid dream, virtual reality, surveillance, hallucination, surrealism, villain, mental illness, scientist, psychiatrist, doctors and patients ...
Time:
future, year 2006, 2000s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 27 min.
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Ergo Proxy is a science fiction suspense anime television series, produced by Manglobe, which premiered across Japan on 25 February 2006 on the WOWOW satellite network. It is directed by Shukō Murase, with screenplay by Dai Satō et al.. Ergo Proxy ...
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anime, cliffhanger, exciting, futuristic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
cyberpunk, androids and robots, murder, mysterious character, artificial intelligence, society, dark humor, investigation, utopia, apocalypse, danger, fate of humanity ...
Time:
future
Place:
europe
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Animation, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
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In the late 19th century, the British Empire nobility reigns while its working class suffers at their hands. Sympathetic to their plight, William James Moriarty wants to topple it all. Frustrated by the systemic inequity, Moriarty strategizes to fix ...
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anime, atmospheric, suspense, stylized, suspenseful ...
Plot:
master villain, organized crime, mind game, twists and turns, master criminal, secret identity, society, moral dilemma, aristocracy, anarchist, rivalry, police ...
Time:
victorian era
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33%
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
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In the near future, most of mankind now lives in a handful of city states. There, for the privileged elite, life should be perfect. But for young Sion, life has become a nightmare since letting a strange boy spend the night in his apartment. ...
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anime, bleak, yaoi, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
social differences, life turned upside down, conspiracy, male male relationship, gay interest, slice of life, uncover truth, drastic change of life, teenage life, love, boys love, lgbt ...
Time:
future
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
In the year 2029, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster'. Ghost in the Shell 2.0 is a reproduced version of its original 1995 ...
Style:
anime, philosophical, exciting, rough, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
cyberpunk, androids and robots, anti heroine, female spy, hacker, artificial intelligence, female warrior, cyberspace, ghost in the shell, policewoman, female police officer, science runs amok ...
Time:
future, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
japan, east asia, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Anime television series created, directed and written by Tensai Okamura and animated by Bones.
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anime, manga, rough, atmospheric, stylized ...
Audience:
pre-teens, kids
Plot:
supernatural ability, dark past, paranormal phenomena, secret agent, investigation, danger, escapades, rivalry, fighting crime, transformation, fate of humanity, dystopian future ...
Time:
future
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
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Guilty Crown is a 2011 Japanese anime television series produced by Production I.G which aired on Fuji TV's noitaminA program block from October 2011. The story revolves around Shu Ouma, a high school boy who inadvertently obtains an ability ...
Style:
mecha, anime, exciting, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
young heroes, heroes, distopia, fighting the system, apocalypse, post apocalypse, imaginary, chaos, teenage love, youth, supernatural ability, epidemic ...
Time:
future, 2030s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
While attending a meeting as a Chief Inspector of the Public Security Bureau, Akane Tsunemori received a report that an incident had occurred on a foreign vessel , and this was the beginning of a big and unexpected case.
Style:
anime, tense, psychological thriller, futuristic, captivating ...
Plot:
cyberpunk, dystopia, criminal, investigation, moral ambiguity, moral dilemma, puzzle, detective inspector, riddles and clues, inspector, police procedural, ethics ...
Time:
future, near future
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
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15 years ago, an unknown hyperspace gate opened over the Pacific. Beyond this gate lies Reto Semaani, a strange alternate world where fairies and monsters live.
San Teresa City—a city where over two million immigrants live from both worlds. As a ...
Style:
anime, atmospheric, stylized, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
magic, curses spells and rituals, human nature, rivalry, supernatural, imaginary, partners against crime, portal, law enforcement, heroes, danger, society ...
Place:
pacific ocean
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Animation, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Virtual reality. Murder. Werewolves. And teen girls! In a future where nothing is as it seems, can old legends come true? In the near future, humans will communicate almost exclusively through monitors, making real interaction a rarefied and weak ...
Style:
anime, atmospheric, stylized, bleak, serious ...
Plot:
serial killer, danger, teenage life, youth, life is a bitch, dishonesty, dystopian future, missing person, teenage girl, plague, conspiracy, computers and web ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
asia, japan
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Inspector Kei Mikhail Ignatov finds himself involved with an organization named Bifrost with the possibility of freeing his wife if he betrays Unit One. Koichi Azusawa coordinates an assault on the Public Safety Bureau tower using his hacker Obata, ...
Style:
anime, futuristic, rough, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot:
police, conspiracy, criminal, dystopia, uncover truth, fighting crime, law and order, rivalry, team, danger, cyberpunk, chases and races ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century is an animated television series, in which Sherlock Holmes is brought back to life in the 22nd century. The series is a co–production by DiC and Scottish Television and was nominated for a Daytime Emmy for ...
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detective, futuristic, mysterious, fast paced, anime ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly
Plot:
robotics, investigation, cloning, sidekick, cyberpunk, nostalgia, rebirth, robot, travel, corporate corruption, cartoon violence, superhero ...
Time:
22nd century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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In the future when technological enhancements and robotics are a way of life, Major Motoko Kusanagi and Section 9 take care of the jobs that are too difficult for the police. Section 9 employs hackers, sharpshooters, detectives and cyborgs all in an ...
Style:
anime, philosophical, adult animation, cyber, futuristic ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
cyberpunk, androids and robots, artificial intelligence, hacker, cyborgs, cyberspace, distopia, mind game, investigation, androids, ghost in the shell, science runs amok ...
Time:
near future, future, 2030s, 21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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The Diclonius, a mutated homo sapien that is said to be selected by God and will eventually become the destruction of mankind, possesses two horns in their heads, and has a "sixth sense" which gives it telekinetic abilities. Due to this ...
Style:
anime, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, bleak ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
memory loss, supernatural ability, trauma, split personality, childhood trauma, decapitation, sadism, life is a bitch, supernatural, experiment gone awry, social misfits, danger ...
Time:
near future, future
Place:
japan
Similarity:
60%
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Genre: Animation, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A retired pop singer turned actress' sense of reality is shaken when she is stalked by an obsessed fan and seemingly a ghost of her past.
Style:
adult animation, suspense, suspenseful, surreal, anime ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, murder, obsession, twists and turns, stalking, actor's life, actress, violence, stalker, rising to stardom, danger, mentally unstable ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1997
Place:
japan, east asia, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Groundbreaking director Mamoru Oshii continues to push the boundaries of art and anime with this universally acclaimed cyber thriller following cyborg detective Batou as he tries to unravel the reasons for a murderous robot revolt in the year 2032. ...
Style:
futuristic, philosophical, adult animation, cyber, atmospheric ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
cyberpunk, cyborgs, artificial intelligence, androids and robots, distopia, androids, investigation, robot, hacker, ghost in the shell, technology, computers and web ...
Time:
future, 2030s, 21st century
Place:
japan, taiwan, hong kong, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 25 min.
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In the year 2045, after global capitalism has defaulted, Japan's elite Section 9 begins conducting covert cyber operations.
Style:
anime, seinen, 3d animation, futuristic, psychological ...
Plot:
cyberpunk, artificial intelligence, police, capitalism, ghost in the shell, superhero, strong female lead, conspiracy, idealism, female protagonist, white supremacy, sword fight ...
Time:
distant future, 2040s, future, 21st century
Similarity:
30%
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Genre: Animation, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Un-Go is set in a war-torn Tokyo, in a near-future Japan. In response to Japan sending their military abroad as peacekeeping forces, terrorists launched multiple attacks on Japan, killing many people and destroying much of its cityscapes. Some time ...
Style:
anime, suspenseful, futuristic, exciting, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, investigation, odd couple, danger, uncover truth, terrorism, partner, mind control, post war, mature, police, cyberpunk ...
Time:
future
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A mysterious suicide and a series of unmanned robot run-aways sparks off a Police investigation into the suspicious software on-board thousands of industrial robots around Tokyo.
Style:
anime, mecha, manga, adult animation, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, robot, investigation, conspiracy, save the day, suicide, underground, buddy, buddy cop, kickass, police, artificial intelligence ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Animation, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
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Appleseed XIII is a 2011 Japanese CGI anime adaptation of Masamune Shirow's science fiction manga series Appleseed. Composed of 13 episodes, the series retold the exploits of ES.W.A.T. member Deunan and her cyborg partner Briareos. The series ...
Style:
anime, exciting, futuristic, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
good versus evil, save the world, terrorism, artificial intelligence, dystopian future, rivalry, chaos, fighting crime, androids and robots, danger, partner, society ...
Time:
future
Place:
japan
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Animation, Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
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In Rags Town, a city full of scum, a carefree detective named Shun is living in this city, doing what he pleases. But one day he meets a beautiful girl who's lost her memory, and he tries to solve her mystery without knowing that this would ...
Style:
anime, serious, exciting, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
memory loss, heroic mission, mysterious character, heroes, escapades, chase, dishonesty, uncover truth, police, violent content, life is a bitch, urban ...
Time:
future
Place:
middle east
Similarity:
28%
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