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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 schoolch ...
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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 ad ...
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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 s ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 a ...
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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 spect ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 yo ...
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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-f ...
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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 se ...
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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 ...
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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 thril ...
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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 Ketc ...
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| 21. Pokemon Heroes (year: 2003) |
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The phenomenon of the "pocket monsters" marches on with this animated sci-fi adventure for kids. Famous Pokémon trainer Ash Ketchum (voice o ...
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| 22. Princess Mononoke (year: 1997) |
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This $20 million animated adventure/fantasy quickly became the highest grossing Japanese film in Japanese film history (making $150 million in Japan d ...
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| 23. Robot Carnival (year: 1987) |
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This anthology contains eight short animated films from top Japanese animators, all concerned with robotics. The range is broad, from comedy to suspen ...
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| 24. Space Adventure Cobra (year: 1995) |
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This feature-length adaptation of the Japanese animated science-fiction series Space Adventure Cobra features an English-language soundtrack with Barb ...
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| 25. Spirited Away (year: 2001) |
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Master animation director Hayao Miyazaki follows up on his record-breaking 1997 opus Princess Mononoke with this surreal Alice in Wonderland-like tale ...
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| 26. Spriggan (year: 1998) |
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Animator of the groundbreaking animé classic Akira, Katsuhiro Otomo was the executive producer for this two-fisted Raiders of the Lost Ark-like animat ...
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| 28. Tales From Earthsea (year: 2006) |
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Animator Goro Miyazaki, son of the infamous Hayao Miyazaki ("The Walt Disney of Japan,") makes his directorial debut with the animated featu ...
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| 29. Vexille (year: 2007) |
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Ten years after Japan withdrew from the U.N., cut their ties with all the nations of the Earth, and built an impenetrable electromagnetic field to pre ...
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| 30. Voices of a Distant Star (year: 2002) |
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Makoto Shinkai's animated science fiction film Voices of a Distant Star concerns a fighter pilot who travels into space to fight in an alien war. Mika ...
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| 31. Whisper of the Heart (year: 1995) |
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Written by animation master Hayao Miyazaki and directed by his protégé Yoshifumi Kondo, this film is a simple tale about a young girl who falls in lov ...
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| 32. Wicked City (year: 1987) |
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