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| 1. 5 Centimeters Per Second (year: 2008) |
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Director Makoto Shinkai's heartfelt animated drama tells the tale of two close friends separated by chance, and reunited by determination. As schoolchildren, Tono Takaki and Shinohara Akari were inseparable. But shortly after graduating elementary school, their families each moved and the distance b ...
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| 2. Akira (year: 1988) |
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| 3. Appleseed (year: 2004) |
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Masamune Shirow's celebrated manga of the fusion of humans and technology in a world devastated by war has been given a new and visually impressive adaptation in this anime drama. In the year 2131 A.D., Deunen Knute (voice of Ai Kobayashi) is a female warrior for hire who, after encountering her for ...
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| 4. Appleseed Ex Machina (year: 2007) |
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Veteran action filmmaker John Woo produces this sequel to the 2004 film Appleseed. Partners both at home and on the battlefield, Deunan, a young but skillful warrior, and Briareos, an experienced cyborg soldier, protect the utopian city of Olympus, where the last of humanity dwells in peace followin ...
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| 5. Azumi 2 (year: 2005) |
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The effects of schizophrenia reverberate through three generations of educated Indian women when a woman is diagnosed with the psychotic disorder and those around her, including her westernized daughter, struggle to maintain normal lives.
As Azumi 2 gets underway, remaining assassins Azumi and Na ...
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| 6. Demon City Shinjuku (year: 1993) |
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High above Tokyo's Shinjuku area, two men battle for the fate of the world: Rebi Ra, an emissary for the demon world, and Genichiro, the only man who can stop him. It's only barely a contest, and the human champion falls as his mystical sword is hurled deep underground and Shinjuku is remade as a li ...
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| 8. Ghost In The Shell (year: 1996) |
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| 9. Grave of the Fireflies (year: 1988) |
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Grave of the Fireflies opens on an evening in 1945, after Japan's surrender at the end of World War II; and in a train station, the young Seita dies alone. The rest of the movie tells us, in flashback, how things have come to this. Seita and Setsuko are two young Japanese children growing up in the ...
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| 10. Howl's Moving Castle (year: 2004) |
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Hayao Miyazaki, the Japanese animation director who wowed audiences worldwide with his award-winning film Spirited Away, brings another visually spectacular tale of imagination to the screen. Sophie is an 18-year-old girl who toils in the hat shop opened years ago by her late father. Often harassed ...
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| 11. Jungle Emperor Leo (year: 1997) |
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Leo, a rare white lion, is not only a proud father and husband, but reigning king of the jungle. His life with Riya, his wife, and two children, Rune and Rukio, is just as it should be until a greedy mercenary and his flunkies visit the jungle in search of the mysterious but precious moonlight stone ...
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| 12. Kiki's Delivery Service (year: 1989) |
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Veteran animator Hayao Miyazaki directs this buoyant children's adventure yarn about a young witch striking out on her own. At her mother's behest, 13-year-old Kiki sets out on a year-long apprenticeship with her black cat in tow. With a shaky command of her broom, she ends up in a charming little c ...
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| 13. Metropolis (year: 2001) |
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Playing like a candy-colored hybrid of Fritz Lang's film of the same name and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis borrows its plot liberally from numerous legendary sci-fi sources (despite the fact that the original manga was released in 1945, certain cinematic aspects can't help ...
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| 14. My Neighbor Totoro (year: 1988) |
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This superbly animated children's tale is directed by Hayao Miyazaki, one of Japan's most beloved animators. The story follows Satsuke and Mai, two young girls who find their new country home is in a mystical forest inhabited by a menagerie of mystical creatures called Totoros. They befriend O Totor ...
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| 15. Night Shift Nurses (year: 2000) |
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The Night Shift Nurses at the Saint Juliana's hospital have been misbehaving, and it's up to the new doctor to whip them back into shape in this sex-fueled hentai. It's been a decade since Dr. Ryuji Hirasaka left the medical profession behind following a sordid incident involving a woman named Narum ...
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| 16. Ninja Scroll (year: 1986) |
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Removed from the typical futuristic element of most Japanese animated adventures, this 1994 feature takes place in more of a sword-and-sorcery epic set in feudal Japan. Jubei Kipagami, a ninja mercenary, wanders the countryside in search of work. On his travels, he encounters Kagero, a female ninja ...
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| 17. Paprika (year: 2006) |
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Groundbreaking animator Satoshi Kon (whose credits include Tokyo Godfathers, Millennium Actress, and Perfect Blue) directed this visually spectacular adaptation of a science fiction novel by Yatsutaka Tsutsui. Atsuko is a psychiatrist who uses advanced technology to study the human mind. Atsuko has ...
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| 18. Perfect Blue (year: 1997) |
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Without the exploding mutants and robotic high school babes that most Americans associate with Japanese anime, this film is a taut psychological thriller. At the behest of her agent, Mima leaves both her moderately successful girl-pop band and her virginal image for an acting gig in a sexy televisio ...
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| 19. Pianist (year: 2004) |
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| 20. Pokémon 4Ever (year: 2002) |
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The "pocket monsters" discover new friends and face off against new adversaries in this installment in the Pokemon animated series. Ash Ketchum (voice of Veronica Taylor), his loyal pet Pokemon Pikachu (voice of Ikue Ootani), and several of their friends travel to an island where an especi ...
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