Steamboy is a 2004 Japanese animated film, produced by Sunrise, and directed and co-written by Katsuhiro Otomo. In 1863, scientists Lloyd Steam and his son Edward have succeeded after a lengthy expedition in discovering a pure mineral water which they believe can be harnessed as an ultimate power source in steam engines (the main industrial catalyst of the time). When an experiment in Russian Alaska goes terribly wrong, resulting in Edward being engulfed in freezing gas, a strange ball-like apparatus is seen “born” from the destruction. Read more…
Fullmetal Alchemist The Movie – The Conqueror of Shamballa is a 2005 Japanese anime. Directed by Seiji Mizushima and written by Sho Aikawa, it acts as a continuation of the first Fullmetal Alchemist television series.
Dragged from his homeworld of Amestris to a parallel world called Earth, Edward Elric lives in Munich, Germany, in the year 1923. Stripped of his alchemical powers and some of his limbs, he researches rocketry with Alfons Heiderich, a young man who resembles his brother, Alphonse Elric, thinking that if he uses a rocket, he can return to his world. Read more…
Earth is invaded by evil aliens from another galaxy. Their attack is stopped by the mighty force of prehistoric monster Gamera. The aliens scan Gamera’s brainwaves to discover and exploit his only weakness. By taking two young boys hostage they are able to seize control of the monster and use his powers against the Earth. As Gamera ravages the cities of Japan the two children struggle to escape freeing him from the the aliens’ command and provoking a deadly final battle between space monsters and Earth’s colossal defender. Starring Kojiro Hongo & Toru Takatsuka; directed by:Â Noriaki Yuasa.
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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is a 2006 science fiction anime based twenty years after the novel Toki o Kakeru ShÅjo by Yasutaka Tsutsui. The film focuses on a high school girl who inadvertently gains the power to travel through time and begins using it frivolously to fix problems raising philosophical questions along the way. It was produced by the animation studio Madhouse and directed by Mamoru Hosoda. Read more…
Cowboy Bebop – The Movie is a 2001 animated film directed by ShinichirÅ Watanabe. The screenplay was written by Keiko Nobumoto, based on the Cowboy Bebop television series. The original Japanese title of the movie (Cowboy Bebop: Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door) is taken from the Bob Dylan’s song of the same name. Read more…
Ghost in the Shell is a 1995 anime film directed by Mamoru Oshii; an adaptation of the manga Ghost in the Shell by Masamune Shirow, produced by Production I.G, and written by Kazunori ItÅ.
The movie begins with Major Motoko Kusanagi spying on a meeting taking place in New Port City. The meeting is interrupted by a Section 6 enforcement team, at which point Motoko kills a foreign diplomat in the meeting who is attempting to transport an important programmer out of the country. Read more…
Vampire Hunter D, 1985, is one of the first anime films released outside of Japan and remains a cult classic in the English-speaking world. Billed by the Japanese producers as a “dark future science-fiction romance”, Vampire Hunter D is set in the year 12,090 A.D., in a post-nuclear holocaust world where a vampiric Nobility terrorizes human peasants. Read more…
Bleach: Memories of Nobody is a 2006 animated film adaptation of the anime and manga series Bleach, directed by Noriyuki Abe and written by Masashi Sogo.
In Karakura Town, unidentifiable spirits begin appearing en masse. While attempting to deal with these strange souls, Ichigo Kurosaki and Rukia Kuchiki meet Senna, a mysterious Soul Reaper who wipes out most of them. Senna refuses to answer any questions, so Ichigo is forced to follow her while Rukia tries to find out what’s going on. Read more…
Appleseed Ex Machina is an CG anime film and is the sequel to the 2004 Appleseed film, similarly directed by Shinji Aramaki, and was produced by Hong Kong director and producer John Woo.
The setting takes place in the year 2133, following World War III, which was a non-nuclear war that killed half the world’s population. The city-nation of Olympus stands as a beacon of hope in a world of chaos and conflict. The utopian metropolis is governed by Gaia, a vast artificial intelligence, and administered by genetically engineered humanoids known as bioroid, whose designer DNA suppresses strong emotions. With bioroids being half of its population, peace and order are easily maintained. Read more…
Appleseed is an anime film, directed by Shinji Aramaki and originally released in Japan on May 17, 2004. It is based on the characters created by Masamune Shirow in the original Appleseed manga series that was published in 1985. Although it shares some characters with the original series, this film’s storyline is not connected to it.
Set in 2131 AD, Appleseed stars Deunan Knute, a young, legendary female soldier and a survivor of the Third World War, which brought Earth to the brink of destruction. Read more…
