Movies & TV Shows/Series by Imagica at a glance

45 movies and TV shows/series found (page 1/2):

Howards End(1992)

3.5/5 (with 224 votes)

A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.

Directed by James Ivory - With Anthony Hopkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham-Carter, Emma Thompson, James Wilby, Samuel West, ...

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Parasite Dolls(2004)

1h 25min | Action, Animation, Science Fiction, Thriller

2.8/5 (with 12 votes)

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 peace between the people and the plastic. Unfortunately, not all boomers are created perfect, and when boomers go bad, people die. The thin blue line that separates man from machine is about to meet its most horrifying test in Parasite Dolls.

Peacemaker(2003-2004)

24min per episode | Animation, Action & Adventure, Comedy, Drama

3.4/5 (with 5 votes)

For 15-year-old Tetsunosuke Ichimura, childhood innocence has given way to a blinding thirst for revenge. Haunted by the vicious slaying of his parents, Tetsu decides to seek out the Shinsengumi, an elite group of swordsmen sworn to protect the capital. The Shinsengumi are engaged in a brutal conflict with the Choshu rebels, the same ruthless killers who murdered Tetsu's parents. In the name of justice - and against the will of his older brother - Tetsu desperately hopes to join the Shinsengumi. But an incident late one night forces him to face reality. The Shinsengumi show themselves capable of the same brutality as his parents' murderers. Wading through a sea of espionage, intrigue, and flowing blood, the young boy must decide whether to shed his humanity and become a demon of the Shinsengumi, or to relinquish his hatred and become a Peacemaker in the spirit of his father. Revenge is sweet, but is it worth losing your soul?

Directed by Tomohiro Hirata

Metropolis(2001)

PG-13

| 1h 48min | Animation, Science Fiction

3.5/5 (with 191 votes)

Kenichi and his detective uncle, Shunsaku Ban, leave Japan to visit Metropolis, in search of the criminal, Dr. Laughton. However, when they finally find Dr. Laughton, Kenichi and Shunsaku find themselves seperated and plunged into the middle of a larger conspiracy. While Shunsaku searches for his nephew and explanations, Kenichi tries to protect Tima (a mysterious young girl), from Duke Red and his adopted son Rock, both of whom have very different reasons for wanting to find her.

Directed by Rintaro

Pulse(2001)

| 1h 59min | Horror, Thriller, Mystery

3.3/5 (with 190 votes)

In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lurks some of its inhabitants who are desperately trying to escape the sadness and isolation of the modern world.

Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa - With Kumiko Asō, Koyuki, Kōji Yakusho, Shinji Takeda, Jun Fubuki, Shun Sugata, ...

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First Human Gatorus(1974-1976)

30min per episode | Animation, Comedy

5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A comedy about the wacky adventures of Giatrus and his tribe of the first human beings on the planet.

Azumanga Daioh(2002)

TV-PG

| 25min per episode | Animation, Comedy

4.0/5 (with 39 votes)

Based on the four-panel comic strip that follows the lives of a group of high school students and teachers, this anime features a compilation of comedic vignettes during a typical day in class over the course of three years.

The Good Witch Of The West(2006)

24min per episode | Animation, Drama, Mystery, Science-Fiction & Fantasy

On Filiel's 15th birthday, she received her mother's necklace as a memento from her obstinate astronomer father. Her common and tedious life was turned into a life of conspiracies. With her new life, many adventures await.

Azumi 2: Death or Love(2005)

| 1h 48min | Action

3.2/5 (with 77 votes)

Young assassins Azumi and Nagara continue their mission to prevent a civil war. In their hunt for Masayuki Sanada, who is protected by both an army and a dangerous clan, they meet Ginkaku, a person who shows a remarking resemblance with former friend Nachi.

Directed by Shūsuke Kaneko - With Aya Ueto, Yuma Ishigaki, Chiaki Kuriyama, Shun Oguri, Kazuki Kitamura, Tak Sakaguchi, ...

The Old Man and the Sea(1999)

22min | Animation, Adventure, Drama

3.9/5 (with 65 votes)

An old fisherman goes out on his fishing trip and makes a huge catch, the biggest of his life.

Directed by Aleksandr Petrov

Cat Soup(2001)

34min | Fantasy, Animation, Science Fiction, Kids & Family

3.5/5 (with 60 votes)

The surreal black comedy follows Nyatta, an anthropomorphic kitten, on his travel to the land of the dead and back in an effort to save his sister's soul.

Directed by Tatsuo Satō

Eureka(2000)

3h 38min | Drama

3.8/5 (with 35 votes)

In rural Japan, the survivors of a tragedy converge and attempt to overcome their damaged selves, all while a serial killer is on the loose.

Directed by Shinji Aoyama - With Kōji Yakusho, Aoi Miyazaki, Machiko Ono, Sayuri Kokushō, Yutaka Matsushige, Ken Mitsuishi, ...

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Summer Time Machine Blues(2005)

1h 47min | Comedy, Science Fiction

3.5/5 (with 16 votes)

A light hearted comedy following a group of friends in a science-fiction club, who spend their summer holidays fooling around at their club house, have a mission to go back into time, using a time machine that appeared out of nowhere, in order to save their summer days from unbearable heat by retrieving the remote control for their air conditioner. But wouldn't changing the past have an effect on the future? Be prepared for a wild ride regarding time travel with a bunch of whacky characters and theories thrown into the mix.

Directed by Katsuyuki Motohiro - With Eita Nagayama, Juri Ueno, Yōko Maki, Kuranosuke Sasaki

Distance(2001)

2h 12min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 17 votes)

On the eighth anniversary of a cult's failed chemical attack on Tokyo and their subsequent mass suicide, family members of those affected gather at the cult's former base on the shores of a lake to observe the anniversary of their loved ones' deaths.

Directed by Hirokazu Koreeda - With Arata Iura, Yūsuke Iseya, Susumu Terajima, Yui Natsukawa, Tadanobu Asano

Sakura Wars: The Movie(2001)

1h 25min | Action, Animation, Comedy, Science Fiction

2.1/5 (with 3 votes)

Following in the aftermath of a terrible Demon-Human war, turn of the century Japan is preparing a new fighting force in case the demons decide to return. A squadron of giant robots are built to be controlled by the spirit of the pilot, but it is discovered that the only people with sufficient spirit are young women. After recruiting a team of youths from around the world, the Japanese government decides to keep them a secret by disguising them as a theater troupe, thus requiring them to spend as much time memorizing Shakespeare as they do on military training.

Directed by Mitsuru Hongo

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Princess Arete(2001)

1h 44min | Adventure, Animation, Fantasy, Mystery

3.5/5 (with 16 votes)

Imprisoned by a sorcerer who fears she will rob him of eternal life, guileless young Princess Arete befriends a villager who helps her plan an escape.

Directed by Sunao Katabuchi

The Diary of Anne Frank(1995)

1h 42min | Animation, History, Drama, War

3.3/5 (with 5 votes)

This is the true story of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl living in Amsterdam during WW2. Anne's father realizes on time the danger the Jews face and hides his family (his wife Edith and his two daughters Margo (16) and Anne (13), along with four more people, in "the house behind". For two years the 8 people live in darkness and whispers, in fear of being discovered and sent to the German crematories. During that time young Anne writes a diary, describing her daily life in the cellar, her complicated relationship with her mother and the story of her first love - Peter, the young boy in the hiding place. Anne writes down her wishes to run out free and breath the air and flowers, her dreams to be free at last. But humanity is often a cruel mistress...

Directed by Akinori Nagaoka

Aegis(2005)

2h 7min | Action, Drama

2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The Isokaze, an Aegis-class escort vessel, sets sail on a routine training exercise, playing host to a platoon from the Fleet Training Group. No sooner is the Isokaze on open water, however, then the FTG reveal themselves to be terrorist stowaways who kill the ship's captain, send the rest of the crew overboard and take control of the vessel. The ship is carrying a secret biological weapon which the terrorists are now threatening to use to level Tokyo! Only a stowaway NCO, Sengoko (played by Sanada Hiroyuki from Ring and Twilight Samurai) is in a position to stop them - but does he really have what it takes to save the day? Playing like a cross between a sea-faring version of Top Gun and Die Hard, director Sakamoto Junji shows that it's not just Hollywood that can produce thrill-a-minute action spectaculars.

Directed by Junji Sakamoto - With Akira Terao, Hiroyuki Sanada

700 Days of Battle: Us vs. the Police(2008)

1h 50min | Comedy

3.4/5 (with 5 votes)

Set on the backdrop of 1979 a group of troublemaking teenagers led by Mamachari (Hayato Ichihara) decide to prank Chuzai-san (Kuranosuke Sasaki) the local police officer who caught Mamachari’s friend Saijo (Takuya Ishida) for speeding on his scooter, Chuzai-san gets them suspended from school which only causes the teenagers to retaliate, They discover that Chuzai-san is married to an attractive woman named Kanako (Kumiko Aso) only making their pranks worse.

Directed by Renpei Tsukamoto

Shimajiro and the Rainbow Oasis(2017)

53min | Kids & Family, Adventure, Animation, Fantasy

4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Shimajiro and friends embark on a journey through the desert to help young Coco reunite with her mother after being separated in a fierce sandstorm.

Gunsmith Cats(1995)

1h 30min | Animation, Action, Comedy

3.0/5 (with 11 votes)

Rally Vincent and Minnie May Hopkins are just a pair of gun shop owners who do a bit of bounty hunting to make ends meet when a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms agent comes to them. Using the threat of arresting them for their lack of a retail license for their merchandise and the resulting unpaid taxes, he forces them to agree to cooperate in a sting to break a gun running ring. They have an initial success, but that brings new problems as the ring's leader brings in a merciless assassin to eliminate these new enemies. It will take all their skill, allies and some luck to come out this crisis alive.

Winter Days(2003)

39min | Animation

2.4/5 (with 6 votes)

Winter Days is a 2003 animated film, directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto. It is based on one of the renku (collaborative linked poems) in the 1684 collection of the same name by the 17th-century Japanese poet Bashō. The creation of the film followed the traditional collaborative nature of the source material – the visuals for each of the 36 stanzas were independently created by 35 different animators. As well as many Japanese animators, Kawamoto assembled leading names of animation from across the world. Each animator was asked to contribute at least 30 seconds to illustrate their stanza, and most of the sequences are under a minute (Yuriy Norshteyn's, though, is nearly two minutes long).

Directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto

Battle Royale High School(1987)

1h | Action, Animation, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror

2.7/5 (with 4 votes)

When the school Karate club's star fighter quits and decides to go pro, he unwittingly fulfills an ancient interdimensional prophecy and becomes demon king of his dimension. Soon his high school becomes a battleground for demon slaying samurai, interplanetary law enforcement, and even his own traitorous demon minions. Well animated fight scenes ensue.

Asyl: Park and Love Hotel(2007)

1h 51min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 3 votes)

There is an old love hotel in Tokyo's Shinjuku district where couples can rent a room by the hour for romantic assignations. However, few of its regular customers seem to come there for sexual encounters; the hotel has become a hangout for rootless teenagers, senior citizens looking for a place to relax, and kids that play under the watchful eye of its owner...

Directed by Izuru Kumasaka

A Stranger of Mine(2005)

1h 38min | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance / Love

3.6/5 (with 9 votes)

In one long Friday evening, Takeshi Miyata, a straight-arrow businessman, will encounter a number of people (some only fleetingly) who have intertwining fates.

Directed by Kenji Uchida - With Reika Kirishima

Invisible TOKYO(2016-)

Music producer Tetsuya Komuro, model/actress Elaiza Ikeda, C-channel president Akira Morikawa, and Tokyo Girls Collection executive producer Noriyoshi Murakami. What are the impacts of social networking? Have we evolved to live in this connected-yet-closed world? Or has it set us back? We're living in an entangled world. A world centered around girls. Invisible TOKYO.

Firefly(2001)

2h 44min | Drama

Emotionally withdrawn strip club dancer Ayako has never recovered from her mother's suicide when she was young. She begins a relationship with patient potter Daiji, but leaves him behind when she quits her job and returns to her home town after a 10 year absence.

Directed by Naomi Kawase

Spy Sorge(2003)

3h 2min | War, History, Drama

4.5/5 (with 2 votes)

A foreign spy using the Sorge alias is assigned to Tokyo the capital of Japan just prior to the outbreak of World War II and in the midst of the Japanese imperial ambitions in Eastern Asia. The spy becomes acquainted with a sympathetic communist who like he is attached to the ideals of freedom and rule of the masses. Sorge is able to feed the Soviet Union useful information regarding the Axis allies and their movements in Asia and beyond.

Directed by Masahiro Shinoda - With Iain Glen, Koyuki, Masahiro Motoki, Shima Iwashita, Yui Natsukawa, Kippei Shiina, ...

Unholy Women(2006)

1h 47min | Horror

2.9/5 (with 10 votes)

Unholy Women (Kowai onna), is a composite of three unrelated half-hour horror movies. A compilation of 3 separate short horror films (Rattle Rattle, Hagane, The Inheritance) written and directed by Keita Amemiya, Takuji Suzuki, and Keisuke Toyoshima respectively. The first segment, “Rattle Rattle”, tells the story of a young woman who is pursued by an evil other-worldly being. The second movie, “Steel”, concerns a young man who agrees to take the sister of his boss out on a blind date, drawing him into a world more frightening than he ever dreamed possible. The third and final episode, “The Inheritance”, is a supernatural tale of a woman and her young son, scarred by abuse and psychological trauma.

Directed by Keita Amemiya

Noh Mask Murders(1991)

1h 49min | Mystery, Drama

2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

The patriarch of a bickering family announces his retirement, stirring competition about who will succeed him as a leading practitioner of Noh theater, his granddaughter or grandson.

Directed by Kon Ichikawa - With Takaaki Enoki, Keiko Kishi, Kōji Ishizaka

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