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Howl's Moving Castle(2004)

PG
| 1h 59min | Fantasy, Animation, Adventure
4.2/5 (with 4,230 votes)

From director Hayao Miyazaki and the legendary Studio Ghibli, Howl's Moving Castle is an Academy Award-nominated acclaimed fantasy based on the novel of the same name by Diana Wynne Jones.Sophie, a quiet girl working in a hat shop, finds her life thrown into turmoil when she is literally swept off her feet by a handsome but mysterious wizard named Howl. The vain and vengeful Witch of the Waste, jealous of their friendship, puts a curse on Sophie and turns her into a 90-year-old woman. On a quest to break the spell, Sophie climbs aboard Howl's magnificent moving castle and into a new life of wonder and adventure. But as the true power of Howl's wizardry is revealed, Sophie finds herself fighting to protect them both from a dangerous war of sorcery that threatens their world. Featuring the voice talents of Lauren Bacall, Christian Bale, Billy Crystal, Blythe Danner, Emily Mortimer and Jean Simmons.

Directed by Hayao Miyazaki - With Christian Bale

My Neighbor Totoro(1988)

G
| 1h 26min | Fantasy, Animation, Kids & Family
4.0/5 (with 3,615 votes)

Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother, and discover the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros, magical spirits of the forest. When the youngest runs away from home, the older sister seeks help from the spirits to find her.

Directed by Hayao Miyazaki

Princess Mononoke(1997)

PG-13
| 2h 14min | Adventure, Fantasy, Animation
4.2/5 (with 3,435 votes)

Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way, he encounters San, a young human woman fighting to protect the forest, and Lady Eboshi, who is trying to destroy it. Ashitaka must find a way to bring balance to this conflict.

Directed by Hayao Miyazaki

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex(2002-2005)

TV-MA
| 25min per episode | Animation, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
4.1/5 (with 172 votes)

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 effort to thwart cyber criminals and their plans to attack the innocent.

Castle in the Sky(1986)

PG
| 2h 5min | Adventure, Fantasy, Animation, Action, Kids & Family, Romance / Love
4.0/5 (with 1,778 votes)

A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.

Directed by Hayao Miyazaki

Kiki's Delivery Service(1989)

G
| 1h 43min | Animation, Kids & Family, Fantasy, Adventure
3.9/5 (with 1,669 votes)

A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service.

Directed by Hayao Miyazaki

Whisper of the Heart(1995)

G
| 1h 51min | Animation, Drama, Kids & Family
4.0/5 (with 816 votes)

Shizuku lives a simple life, dominated by her love for stories and writing. One day she notices that all the library books she has have been previously checked out by the same person: 'Seiji Amasawa'.

Directed by Yoshifumi Kondō

Porco Rosso(1992)

1h 34min | Kids & Family, Comedy, Animation, Adventure
3.9/5 (with 1,482 votes)

In Italy in the 1930s, sky pirates in biplanes terrorize wealthy cruise ships as they sail the Adriatic Sea. The only pilot brave enough to stop the scourge is the mysterious Porco Rosso, a former World War I flying ace who was somehow turned into a pig during the war. As he prepares to battle the pirate crew's American ace, Porco Rosso enlists the help of spunky girl mechanic Fio Piccolo and his longtime friend Madame Gina.

Directed by Hayao Miyazaki

The Cat Returns(2002)

G
| 1h 15min | Adventure, Fantasy, Animation, Drama, Kids & Family
3.6/5 (with 822 votes)

Young Haru rescues a cat from being run over, but soon learns it's no ordinary feline; it happens to be the Prince of the Cats.

Directed by Hiroyuki Morita

Ocean Waves(1993)

PG
| 1h 12min | Animation, Drama, Romance / Love, TV Movie
3.2/5 (with 350 votes)

At Kichijōji Station, Tokyo, Taku Morisaki glimpses a familiar woman on the platform opposite boarding a train. Later, her photo falls from a shelf as he exits his apartment before flying to Kōchi Prefecture. Picking it up, he looks at it briefly before leaving. As the aeroplane takes off, he narrates the events that brought her into his life...

Directed by Tomomi Mochizuki

Den-noh Coil(2007)

TV-Y7
| 25min per episode | Animation, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.6/5 (with 15 votes)

Den-noh Coil, Coil — A Circle of Children, is a Japanese science fiction anime television series depicting a near future where semi-immersive augmented reality technology has just begun to enter the mainstream. The series takes place in the fictional city of Daikoku, a hotbed of AR development with an emerging city-wide virtual infrastructure. It follows a group of children as they use AR glasses to unravel the mysteries of the half real, half Internet city, using a variety of illegal software tools, techniques, and virtual pets to manipulate the digital landscape. Den-noh Coil, in development for over a decade, is the series director debut of Japanese animator Mitsuo Iso. It premiered on NHK Educational TV on May 12, 2007. Due to the animators involved in its production and its unusually high-profile television broadcast time slot, Den-noh Coil was highly anticipated.

Angel's Egg(1985)

1h 11min | Animation, Fantasy, Mystery
3.9/5 (with 159 votes)

In a desolate and dark world full of shadows, lives one little girl who seems to do nothing but collect water in jars and protect a large egg she carries everywhere. A mysterious man enters her life... and they discuss the world around them.

Directed by Mamoru Oshii
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Alice & Zoroku(2017)

TV-14
| 24min per episode | Animation, Action & Adventure, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Drama
3.6/5 (with 13 votes)

The story centers on a little girl called Sana, who is one of the children that holds the power of "Alice's Dream," an ability that enables her to materialize anything she imagines. After escaping a lab where she was a test subject, Sana ends up in a normal world where she encounters an old man named Zouroku, but will he help her?

Directed by Katsushi Sakurabi

Madadayo(1993)

2h 14min | Drama, Comedy
3.7/5 (with 45 votes)

Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with him resigning his job as a German professor at the onset of WWII. The story is told mostly in vignettes as he is cared for by former students in his old age.

Directed by Akira Kurosawa - With Akira Terao, Kyōko Kagawa, Hisashi Igawa, George Tokoro, Noriko Honma, Takeshi Kusaka, ...

Ritual(2000)

2h 8min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 21 votes)

A disillusioned filmmaker has an encounter with a young girl who has a ritual of repeating "Tomorrow is my birthday" everyday. He tries to communicate with her through his video camera.

Directed by Hideaki Anno - With Shunji Iwai, Ayako Fujitani, Jun Murakami, Shinobu Ōtake

Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Overture to a New War(1993)

1h 30min | Animation, Science Fiction, War
4.2/5 (with 11 votes)

Reinhard von Müsel and Yang Wen-li return to their respective homes, one victorious and the other defeated. While Reinhard earns the new name Lohengramm, while Yang and his friends celebrate some welcome news.

Legend of the Galactic Heroes: My Conquest Is the Sea of Stars(1988)

59min | Animation, Science Fiction, War
4.1/5 (with 16 votes)

For the past 150 years, humanity’s two greatest nations have been deadlocked in a meaningless war. In what is hoped to be a miraculous victory, the Alliance embarks on a battle to break through the Empire’s frontline. Like many other “decisive” battles, this can only end in disaster; a sentiment shared by Imperial nobleman Reinhard von Lohengramm and Alliance Commodore Yang Wen Li, both of whom realize how to turn the fight in their favor. And while the tides of war may never change, these two men must rise to the occasion, solidifying their place in history as heroes.

GoShogun: The Time Étranger(1985)

1h 30min | Action, Animation, Science Fiction
3.6/5 (with 3 votes)

Forty years after the events of the TV series, Remy Shimada, ex-pilot of the GoShogun, suffers a terrible accident while on her way to a meeting with her former robot-piloting comrades. While they rush to the hospital, Remy floats between life and death. She sees visions of her life when she was young, and stranger still, experiences a hallucination of being with her friends, all of them young again, in a mysterious city filled with hostile fanatics. Far from being the reunion Remy hoped for, a ghastly letter arrives for each member of the team that predicts their gruesome deaths. Slated to die in two days, both in reality and in her dream, Remy struggles to find a way out of the City of Fate, relying on the memories of her friends to see her through, even as they surround her death bed in the waking world.

Arion(1986)

1h 59min | Adventure, Action, Animation, Fantasy, War
3.0/5 (with 7 votes)

The story follows Arion, a young man kidnapped by Hades as a child and raised to believe that his mother was blinded by Zeus and that killing the ruler of Mount Olympus will cure her.

Directed by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko

Digital Devil Story - Megami Tensei(1987)

45min | Animation, Science Fiction, Horror
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Handsome high school student Akemi is a computer genius. One day a new girl, Yumiko, transfers to his class from another school. She quickly falls in love with Akemi but, absorbed in his computer, he pays her no attention at all. Akemi accidentally summons demons who wreak chaos on his enemies and friends.

Directed by Mizuho Nishikubo

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.

A Woman's Hole(2014)

1h 41min | Mystery, Comedy, Romance / Love
2.1/5 (with 2 votes)

Sachiko Suzuki is a female high school student. She claims that she is an alien and her mission on Earth is to conceive a child with a human man. Sachicko seduces her class teacher Mr. Fukuda. After their intimate encounter, Mr. Fukuda becomes becomes convinced that Sachiko is not a human. Meanwhile, female student Kobato Hagimoto knows that Mr. Murata has a crush on some male students. Because of this, Mr. Murata is treated as a pig by Kobata until he can't bear the situation anymore.

Directed by Kōta Yoshida

Magical Sisters Yoyo & Nene(2013)

1h 40min | Animation, Fantasy, Adventure
3.4/5 (with 12 votes)

It is a story about a pair of sisters who work as "noroiya" (cursers) using magic in a fantasy world. One day a big tree suddenly appears in a forest, and tall buildings that look like they are from our world can be seen entangled in it. The two sisters go there to investigate and get ported to our world. They then encounter two children who are startled by the sisters' sudden appearance and rush back home but at home they see their parents turned into monsters...

Directed by Takayuki Hirao

The Guyver: Bio-Booster Armor(1989)

6h | Science Fiction, Animation, Action, Horror
3.4/5 (with 7 votes)

Sho and his friend Tetsurou stumble upon an odd alien artifact while walking through the woods. Then, the alien artifact breaks free of its metallic bonds and enters Sho's body, turning him into the Guyver. With this new power, Sho must do battle with the evil Chronos corporation and their genetically enhanced Zoanoids, who seek to get the Guyver back into their labs. No one close to Sho is safe from Chronos. He must fight.

Demon of Steel: Battle of the Great Demon Beasts(1987)

1h | Animation, Action, Science Fiction, Horror
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

In the year 1999, a team of UN scientists in an attempt to tap into a new energy resource on a deserted island called Samsara, unknownigly open a portal to another universe, unleashing dormant biomechanical entities. Three years later, Takuya Goroza returns to the island of Sansara urged by a mysterious request by college chum Haruka Alford. Little does he know, his old friend isn't what he appears to be...

The Dream of Russia(1992)

2h 3min | Drama, History
4.4/5 (with 3 votes)

Sumptuous filming of the journey of a shipwrecked Japanese expedition from the Pacific Ocean across Siberia to the court of Catherine the Great of Russia. A Russo-Japanese co-production of a unique event in history which was the hit of Cannes and other film festivals but did not receive wide distribution despite its huge scope, high production values, and very human story of culture clash.

Directed by Junya Satō - With Ken Ogata, Oleg Yankovsky, Yury Solomin, Marina Vlady

The City of Lost Souls(2000)

1h 42min | Action, Crime, Drama
3.2/5 (with 17 votes)

Brazilian-Japanese gangster Mario rescues his Chinese girlfriend Kei as she's about to be deported from Japan. Desperate to escape, he hides in Tokyo's booming Japanese-Portuguese community and seeks passage from the country from a Russian mobster. To meet his price, they hold up a bigtime drug deal between the Chinese Mafia and the local Yakuza.

Directed by Takashi Miike - With Akira Emoto, Michelle Reis, Patricia Manterola, Ren Ōsugi, Akaji Maro, Terence Yin, ...

Cosmic Fantasy: Galaxy Cougar's Trap(1994)

45min | Fantasy, Animation, Science Fiction

Yuu and Saya are two of the top Cosmic Hunters in the galaxy, and Yuu is enjoying a bit of fame after his most recent adventure. The two are on a date when they are interrupted from a distress signal from their "ally", the feline pervert Nyan. In the meantime, the space pirate Belga begins attacking space freighters in an attempt to lure out Yuu, so she can take him to bed with her. Of course, when he spurns her, she decides that if she can't have him, then no one can.

Hyperdoll: Mew & Mica the Easy Fighter(1995)

1h 20min | Comedy, Animation
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Disguised as schoolgirls, 2 superheroines would rather goof off instead of saving the Earth from gigantic monsters.

Directed by Makoto Moriwaki

Space Family Carlvinson(1988)

45min | Animation, Comedy, Science Fiction
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

After hitting a passing spaceship and causing it to crash, a troupe of aliens and robots rescue the only survivor. It is a human baby named Corona that they decide to raise on their own, using the data they retrieved from the computer to mimic the life she would have had on Earth.

Directed by Kimio Yabuki
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