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Plot Summary:
A criminal group known as Demon Seed terrorizes Tokyo with its vast armies of mecha. The local police is afraid to confront them, but one person stands in their way: Maron Namikaze, a 13-year-old idol singer with a catchy voice and unbelievable superhuman strength.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Animation, Short, Action, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 28 min
Plot tags: anime, spoof, parody
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Space Travelers: The Animation (2000)
Plot Summary:
New Cosmic Century 038, humanity is suddenly attacked by an unknown alien civilization known as the Orbital Ring System. Soon, the entire Earth Civilization Sphere has been cut off from the space colonies, and is under the control of the ORS.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: anime
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Urusei Yatsura: Only You (1983)
Plot Summary:
Six-year-old Ataru steps on Elle's shadow during an impromptu game of shadow-tag; in Elle's culture, this is viewed as a marriage proposal. Eleven years later, Elle returns to Earth in order to marry Ataru — by which time not only had he forgotten the events of his childhood, but he was also going out with Lum. The rest of the plot focuses on Lum's attempts to prevent the marriage. The film was directed by Mamoru Oshii who was mad at the many requests that the producer made of him to alter the movie. Rumiko Takahashi considers this film her favorite and it is the most true to the original series.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 777
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: anime, manga, adult animation, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Urusei Yatsura 5: The Final Chapter (1988)
Plot Summary:
The fifth film is an animated adaptation of the final story of the manga and is also the official ending of the anime series, in which Lum and Ataru must repeat the game of tag played out in the first episode of the television series, or the Earth will be infested with mushrooms larger than buildings. Further, should Ataru lose, Lum will leave forever and everyone's memories will be changed so that they don't remember she, or her friends, were ever there. Finally, Lum refuses to allow Ataru to win unless he says to her those three words "I love you," that he has steadfastly refused to say over the entire series.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: anime
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Project A-Ko 3: Cinderella Rhapsody (1988)
Plot Summary:
It revolves around A-Ko and B-ko's pursuit of a handsome stud named Kay. He likes coke and motorcycles and is quietly courted by both A-ko and B-ko. Meanwhile, C-ko grows very jealous of him... Also meanwhile, the aliens' ship in now floating in the bay and they've tried again to turn it into the ultimate nightspot. Good luck. Catastrophe always occurs when the three 'Ko's get together.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha
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City Hunter: .357 Magnum (1989)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful pianist comes to Tokyo for a charity concert - and City Hunter is there. But music isn't his forte. He wants lessons in the language of love. Desperation is the word as bodies start dropping. A foreign dignitary is assassinated in cold blood. Secret agents scour the streets for a missing microchip. And diplomatic infighting swirls around the upcoming concert until Nina the pianist and her grandfather Klaus are kidnapped. A maelstrom of exploding grenades, the rumble of Falcon's jeep, and the tinkling of the ivories all set the stage for City Hunter: . 357 Magnum. The show must go on!.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 501
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: anime
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Project A-Ko 2: Plot of the Daitokuji Financial Group (1987)
Plot Summary:
It's summer in Graviton City, and the girls all have a break from school! A-Ko decides to lose a few inches, C-Ko makes a list of all the cool things that she'll buy, and B-Ko vows to get A-Ko out of the way once and for all so that she can have C-Ko to herself. To this end, she designs a new giant mecha, better than all the others. But her father steals her designs and uses them to attack the crashed alien spacecraft (now high-class restaurant) in an attempt to steal the advanced technology of the aliens.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 308
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha
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Aria the OVA: Arietta (2007)
Plot Summary:
Akari finds herself nervous coaching a new undine as a Prima, until she awakens to find that it is just a dream. To soothe her worries, Alicia recalls stories of her beginnings as a Prima, as well as the memories she made.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Animation, Short, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 31 min
Plot tags: anime, shounen
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Urusei Yatsura: Inaba the Dreammaker (1987)
Plot Summary:
It is summertime, and Shinobu laments not having a boyfriend. She then happens upon a young man weak from hunger, and wearing a rabbit costume. She gives him a carrot, he expresses his gratitude by hitting on her... and she hits back. The young man leaves behind a key to another dimension where everybody's possible futures exist. Lum and Ataru join Shinobu to find the bunny boy, and happy futures for themselves.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: anime, shounen
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You're Under Arrest: The Movie (1999)
Plot Summary:
Officers Tsujimoto and Kobayakawa are transferred back to Bokuto Police Station after stints in other police departments. Shortly after this, the discovery of smuggled firearms and the recovery of a magnetic disc herald new troubles for Bokuto station as the Chief is thrown in jail for keeping silent over "Bee Number One", developed by Detective Emoto who went missing two years ago.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: anime
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City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes (2019)
Plot Summary:
Ryo Saeba works the streets of Tokyo as the City Hunter. He's a "sweeper" and with his sidekick Kaori Makimura, he keeps the city clean. People hire the City Hunter to solve their dangerous problems, which he does with a Colt Python. When Ryo's not working on a case, he's working on getting the ladies, and Kaori must keep him in check with her trusty 10 kg hammer.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 760
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, disturbing, stylized, semi serious, detective, manga
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Burn Up! (1991)
Plot Summary:
A group of young police officers infiltrate a sleazy night club in an attempt to apprehend a man named McCoy, who is involved in kidnapping and white slavery. The plot twists when one of the officers is kidnapped!.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: anime, cult classic
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Ultimate Teacher (1988)
Plot Summary:
At a run down school the "Ultimate Teacher" Ganpachi is sent to get things back on track and prepare the delinquent students for the real world. But the students don't want Ganpachi ruining the gang they got going so their boss, Hinako, fights back Ganpachi aided by her secret power...her lucky kitty underwear. Things get more interesting when we findout Ganpachi is the result of genetic experiments.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: anime
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Riding Bean (1989)
Plot Summary:
A superhuman outlaw courier and his female partner/manager are framed for the kidnapping of a millionaire's daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: anime, adult anime, exciting, serious, suspenseful, seinen
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Hyper Police (1997)
Plot Summary:
Hyper Police is the name of a manga and anime series created by Minoru Tachikawa under the pseudonym MEE. It is a comic science fiction, set in a period in the far future, in which humanity is almost extinct and most of the population are monsters. It is mostly set in the offices of a private police company and focuses on the life of Natsuki Sasahara, a young catgirl, and her co-workers: Foxgirl Sakura Bokuseiinmonzeninari, werewolf Batanen Fujioka and his cousin Tomy Fujioka. For many years, the only western language to have official translations of the Hyper Police manga was Spanish. English translations have been completed by US company Tokyopop.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, futuristic, detective, 2d animation
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Dominion Tank Police (1988)
Plot Summary:
Leona Ozaki joins Newport City's infamous Tank Police division. With aid of Al and her newly built mini-tank, Bonaparte, she wages war on Buaku and his cohorts, the Puma Sisters.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, manga, adult anime, cyberpunk anime, cult film
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One Piece: The Desert Princess and the Pirates: Adventure in Alabasta (2007)
Plot Summary:
A re-telling of the Alabaster Arc from One Piece (TV). Luffy and his crew come to rescue a land in the midst of a civil war, due to a powerful devil fruit user.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, light, feel good, captivating, exciting
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Lupin III: The Pursuit of Harimao's Treasure (1995)
Plot Summary:
Three statues hold the key to finding the eight billion dollar treasure of Harimao. Having acquired one of the statues, Lupin finds himself an unlikely ally of retired British agent Lord Archer and his granddaughter Diana. Only Archer knows where to find the remaining figure, but the Neo-Himmel group seeks the treasure to fund their own plans. Who will claim the riches of Harimao?!.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 460
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, detective
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Lupin the Third: The Legend of Twilight Gemini (1996)
Plot Summary:
Legend has it that the Twilight diamond is the key to a Moroccan treasure of immeasurable value. So when the international thief Lupin is given the Twilight in an act of faith, it's off to Morocco! But what started out as a simple in and out job turns into chaos the moment Lupin steps off the train! Fighting factions, masked assassins, secret underground sects, a whip-yielding psychopath, corrupt cops, and the always determined Inspector Zenigata... they're all after Lupin. And they won't stop until he's caught or killed. Join Lupin, Jigen, Fujiko, and Goemon in another rousing adventure where nothing is what it seems to be... and the treasure is always just around the corner.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 504
Genere: Action, Adventure, Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, detective
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Lupin III: Voyage to Danger (1993)
Plot Summary:
Inspector Zenigata has been removed from the Lupin case which leaves him despondent, and he ends up drinking with Lupin & Jigen. Lupin decides that he and his gang should work with Zenigata to solve his new case, investigating a group of arms dealers known as Shot Shell. Lupin gathers his partners together (Jigen, Goemon, & Fujiko), and with Zenegata they steal a Russian submarine. They kidnap a scientist named Karen Korinsky to help them operate the sub, and also to protect her from Shot Shell. Meanwhile the ICPO assigns a man named Keith Hayden to the Lupin case, and unlike Zenigata he wants Lupin and his group dead. Where ever Lupin and friends go, Keith follows, as the officer attempts to pick them off one by one.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 603
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anime, epic, exciting, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, detective
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Cinderella Boy (2003)
Plot Summary:
Cinderella Boy follows the adventures of impoverished private detective Ranma Hinamatsuri and his thrill-seeking rich girl partner Rella "Cindy" Shirayuki in a futuristic city named "Kirin Town". Kirin Town is a lawless European city-state with its own currency with the name of the city being a pun on the English word for "killing". The two are badly injured when they stumble across an organised crime operation and are put back together into the same body by a mysterious doctor. Every night the stroke of midnight, their shared body changes both form and identity. Ranma becomes Rella, or vice versa. Neither is aware of any actions or situations their partner is involved in, completely losing consciousness until twenty-four hours later, when the change comes around to them again.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, detective
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Saint Seiya: The Heated Battle of the Gods (1988)
Plot Summary:
In Siberia, Hyōga saves a man that is being attacked. Injured, the man manages only to say something about Asgard. Some days later, Saori, Seiya, Shiryū and Shun are wondering about Hyōga and decide to go to Asgard to investigate. At Valhalla, the Lord of Asgard, Dolbar, says he has not heard of any Hyōga and neither has his right hand, Loki. However, at all times Seiya and the others can feel an evil cosmo emanating from Loki and the other Odin Saints called God Warriors. Shiryū, in particular, notices a familiar cosmo coming from Midgard, a mysterious, masked God Warrior. Dolbar makes it clear that he is trying to take control of both Asgard and the Sanctuary, imprisoning Athena in a strange dimension within the giant statue of Odin. Midgard reveals himself as Hyōga and tries to kill Shiryū to prove himself to Dolbar. Thus, it is the task of the Bronze Saints to defeat Dolbar, Loki and the rest of the God Warriors, to save Athena and Hyōga.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: anime, shounen, manga
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Saint Seiya: Warriors of the Final Holy Battle (1989)
Plot Summary:
The plot involves the coming of Lucifer to the Sanctuary, where his underlings systematically dispose of the surviving Gold Saints. Athena goes to Lucifer to ask for peace, placing herself in peril. The Bronze Saints must then come to her rescue, destroying Lucifer's Fallen Angels (Seima Tenshi in Japanese) in the process.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: anime, shounen, manga
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Urusei Yatsura 6: Forever My Darling (1991)
Plot Summary:
Lupika, an alien princess, is in love with a tofu seller. To make him love her too (at least, announce his love. He obviously fears the social taboo of a tofu vendor marrying a princess), she needs to get a love potion, which is in a certain temple. Legend has it that the only person that can obtain this love potion is the most lecherous man in the universe. That man turns out to be Ataru Moroboshi. Lupika kidnaps Ataru to make him get the potion, and Lum and her friends go out to search for Ataru.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: anime
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Werner - Volles Rooäää!!! (1999)
Plot Summary:
A wicked investor wants Werner's residential area razed to the ground in order to build a shopping center. However, building tycoon Günzelsen has not reckoned with Werner. Together with his master Röhrich he's planning to blow away the plumbings with a gigantic obstruction.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Animation
Country: Germany
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: anime, cult classic, cult film
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Astroboy (1980)
Plot Summary:
In 2030 AD, after being abandoned by his creator, a young boy robot is rescued by an Android Advocate, Dr Elefun, who adopts him as his own and guides him in the use of his special powers to aid and protect mankind and robot-kind.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 987
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime
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Saint Seiya: Evil Goddess Eris (1987)
Plot Summary:
When Seiya, Hyōga and Shun visit Saori (Athena) at the orphanage, they meet an employee called Eri. An orphan herself, Eri takes a liking to Hyōga and one night they sit outside watching the stars. They see a shooting star and Hyōga asks Eri to make a wish. After Hyōga leaves, however, Eri becomes powerfully attracted to the shooting star and wanders alone into the woods, where she finds a golden apple. She is then possessed by Eris, the Goddess of Discord, and kidnaps Athena, planning to use the golden apple to suck her energy out, fully reincarnate and take over the world. Eris leaves a message for the Bronze Saints, who set out for the goddess's temple which appears on the mountains. There, the heroes fight the five Ghost Saints: Maya of Sagitta, Orpheus of Lyra, Christ of the Southern Cross, Jan of Scutum (called by the Japanese name Tateza) and Jäger of Orion.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: anime, shounen, manga
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One Piece Film: Red (2022)
Plot Summary:
Uta — the most beloved singer in the world. Her voice, which she sings with while concealing her true identity, has been described as “otherworldly.” She will appear in public for the first time at a live concert. As the venue fills with all kinds of Uta fans — excited pirates, the Navy watching closely, and the Straw Hats led by Luffy who simply came to enjoy her sonorous performance — the voice that the whole world has been waiting for is about to resound.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: anime
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You're Under Arrest (1996)
Plot Summary:
Tsujimoto Natsumi, a powerful young cop with a penchant for daredevil motorcycle riding, is teamed on her first day of work with another rookie, Kobayakawa Miyuki, a whiz of a mechanic and hell on wheels with a car. While the impulsive Natsumi and the quieter Miyuki don't seem to have anything in common at first, they soon learn that they compliment each other well on the job. In short, they become the perfect team to chase the bad guys down, where ever they appear in Tokyo.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 21 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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One Piece: The Movie (2000)
Plot Summary:
There once was a pirate known as the Great Gold Pirate Woonan, who obtained almost one-third of the world's gold. Over the course of a few years, the pirate's existence faded, and a legend grew that he disappeared with his gold to a remote island, an island pirates continue to search for. Aboard the Going Merry, Luffy and his crew, starved and reckless, are robbed of their treasure. In an attempt to get it back, they wreck the getaway ship, guided by a young boy named Tobio, who's a captured part of El Drago's pirate crew. El Drago's love for gold has driven him to look for Woonan's island, and thanks to Woonan's treasure map, he finds it. During this time, Luffy's crew have been split up, and despite their own circumstances, they must find a way to stop El Drago from obtaining Woonan's gold.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 51 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, computer animated
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Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned (1980)
Plot Summary:
In contemporary Boston, Dracula gatecrashes a Satanic ritual and makes off with the intended sacrifice, Delores. Overcome with love for her, he's unable to drink her blood and instead settles down with her and fathers a child, Janus. But Dracula's enemies are massing against him - a team of vampire hunters, including the wheelchair-bound Hans Harker, crossbow wielding and new recruit Frank Drake, a descendant of Dracula, are closing in. And Dracula has been stripped of his vampire powers by Satan and he desperately needs another vampire to restore his powers so that he can both see off his pursuers and avenge the death of Janus at the hands of vengeful Satanists.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 424
Genere: Animation, Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: anime, psychotronic