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Plot Summary:
The film tells the story of a futuristic inhabited planet that has seemingly perfected a system of justice and imprisonment, called “Lamination”. Individuals convicted of serious crimes are encased in laminated suits, which results in virtual slavery. The criminals are referred to as “LaMBs”. The protagonists struggle with the political and ethical system of laminated imprisonment, leading to the eventual development of a romantic relationship between a free citizen and a LaMB. LaMB is an animated film produced by Animax. The film has been developed into four different episodes for Mobile and PSP users.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Singapore, Japan
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: anime
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Princess Principal Crown Handler: Chapter 2 (2021)
Plot Summary:
The second out of six movie sequels to the TV series.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: anime
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Plot Summary:
The first movie based on the TV Series The Testament of Sister New Devil, takes place right after the season 2 final.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: anime
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Compilation film for Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt 2nd Season.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, psychotronic
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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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The year is 2062. Earth has been left in ruin after the failure of a labor automation project when the AI called Artemis waged war against humanity. A girl, Empress, awakens in a research lab. As one of the three surviving guardians, she must destroy the Orbital Elevator before Artemis can complete its construction. Failure will result in a machine army overrunning Earth.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime
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Green Legend Ran (1992)
Plot Summary:
The mysterious Rodo fell to earth ages ago, stealing away the air, water and life from the planet. It's up to Ran, a daring young man, and Aira, a silver-haired girl with a mysterious connection to the Rodo, to save the planet.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: anime
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Two races, the Solnoids and the Paranoids, have been waging a war for centuries. Barely surviving a large scale space battle, seven Solnoids set course toward Chaos, a planet set to be the new homeland for their race. A malfunction during the light speed journey makes their ship jump ahead of their fleet forcing them to encounter several problems on their own.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 325
Genere: Action, Animation, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: anime, apocalyptic
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: mecha, anime
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A virtual world in a scab coral (coral-like information life form) created by Eureka. Ten years have passed since the people of the virtual world appeared on this earth with the collapse. As a result of this “great fusion”, human beings in the virtual world call themselves “Green Earth”, and human beings on the old Earth call themselves “Blue Earth”, and various collisions will be repeated under the surface of the water. And Dewey Novak, a high-ranking official of the Green Earth Army, raises up with his colleagues to protect their dignity and finally puts into action a large-scale terrorist program.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: mecha, anime
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 585
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: anime
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Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny TV Movie I: The Broken World (2006)
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The year is Cosmic Era 73. The Bloody Valentine War, fought between the PLANTS space colonies and the nations of the Atlantic Federation, has ended and an uneasy truce has settled upon the Earth sphere. With the signing of the Junius Seven Treaty, the world's soldiers have left the battlefield and the grizzly sights of war behind. Many who fought now seek peace and refuge in the shelter of civilian life. But one boy, Shin Asuka, is finding that incredibly hard. A coordinator who lost his entire family during the Battle of Orb, he now fights with ZAFT in one of their newest machines, the Impulse Gundam. Of course, ZAFT is only developing these machines for defensive applications - or so they claim - but when a group of Federation operatives steal some of these prototype machines, the world is once again plunged towards war.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 257
Genere: Animation, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: anime, hentai, cyberpunk anime
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The wandering knight, Bedivere, reaches the end of his journey. It is A.D. 1273 in Jerusalem. The Holy Land has been transformed into a massive desert and its people have been forced out of their homes as three major powers wage war with each other in this wasteland. The Knights of the Round Table come together to protect the Holy City and their Lion King. With the whole of his kingdom summoned into a strange land, Ozymandias, the Sun King, quietly plots against the tyranny of this bizarre realm. The mountain people, protectors of those who were stripped of their land, await their chance at rebellion. In order to fulfill his mission, Bedivere heads for the Holy City where the Lion King rules. There he meets humanity’s final Master, Ritsuka Fujimaru, who has come to Jerusalem, accompanied by his Demi-Servant, Mash Kyrielight, in their quest to restore human history.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anime
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Plot Summary:
The Galman Empire is destroyed but the planet Galmania is not, by a chance collision of galaxies. The Bolar Federation worlds including Planet Bolar are destroyed. The Yamato, back under the command of Captain Okita, encounters the planet Denguil too late to save its humanoid civilization from being flooded by the water planet Aquarius. The surviving Denguil, a warrior race who believe only the strong should survive, plan to use Aquarius to flood Earth and destroy humanity, in order to create a new home for their race.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags: anime
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In a futuristic Tokyo, several policewomen fight a monster. One of them, Katsumi Liqueur, remembers where she saw it before... Katsumi Liqueur, an American-born woman of Japanese descent, travels to Tokyo to visit her mother, Fuyuka, who is sick in the hospital. She takes a shortcut through an alley after her taxi gets stuck in traffic, only to encounter a monster and two policewomen fighting it. Later, she meets their chief, Rally Cheyenne, who, it seems, has been expecting her, though Katsumi has never met her before. The policewomen want Katsumi to help them fight the monster, but Katsumi, who does not want to believe in magic, resists.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: anime, futuristic, mecha, cyber, cyberpunk anime
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Third film of the Mardock Scramble series. Rune Balot goes to a casino connected to the October corporation to try to wrap up her case once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 826
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 66 min
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 131
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Country: Japan
Duration:
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FLCL Alternative is a sequel to FLCL and FLCL Progressive.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 594
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min
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The alien Wulgaru's last assault against humanity was foiled by the heroic actions of the genetically enhanced humans known as the Evolved Children in their advanced AHSMB battle armor, but now a new attack has been launched against Earth under an even deadlier champion, Diorna, created from the fusion of DNA from two Wulgaru Royals. Unfortunately, Izuru Hitachi, the leader of Team Rabbits who defeated the Wulgaru Royal Jiart, is still out of action and recovering, so the task of marshalling the Majestic Princes and stopping Diorna falls upon the unready shoulders of Toshikazu Asagi. Together with the remaining members of Team Rabbits and the recently created Team Fawn, it's up to Asagi to hold the line against the most ruthless adversary yet!.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 79 min
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Plot Summary:
Thousands of years into the future, mankind has colonized other planets across the galaxy and completely forgotten about Earth. On one part of the galaxy, the female space pirates and their colossal starship Sol Bianca get a surprise when a young girl named Mayo stows away on board the ship. The crew then embarks on a journey to Earth to find the whereabouts of Mayo's parents and discover the secrets of the lost planet.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags: anime, futuristic
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: anime
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Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Pyrophoric Cult (2015)
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Motoko and her squad are finally getting closer to Fire-Starter's broker, but things get tense when they're instructed to take a backseat role on a sting op. Part five of the OVA series, containing the materials developed for Alternative Architecture's final two episodes.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 788
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 46 min
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The Chaldea Organization must deal with the Grand Temple of Solomon, the King of Magic, which has come to destroy the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min
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Plot Summary:
A new 3D version of Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 520
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: anime, manga, mystic, adult anime, neo noir, adult animation, cyberpunk anime, 2d animation
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2112; the summer before Akane Tsunemori was assigned to Division One of the Public Safety Bureau's Criminal Investigation Department. Teppei Sugo, an accomplished pilot of the Defense Army's 15th Integrated Task Force, joins the military operation in Okinawa. Three months later, an unmanned combat drone opens fire on the Ministry of Defense in Tokyo. Enforcer Tomomi Masaoka of CID Division One is dispatched to Sugo's military base to investigate the truth behind this case.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 864
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: anime, seinen, detective, psychological, cyberpunk anime
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In the winter of 2117, a runaway vehicle crashes into the Public Safety Bureau Building. The driver is identified as Izumi Yasaka, a psychological counselor at the Sanctuary, a Latent Criminal Isolation Facility in Aomori Prefecture. But right before her interrogation, Inspector Mika Shimotsuki and Enforcer Nobuchika Ginoza are tasked with promptly escorting Yasaka back to Aomori. What awaits them there is a False Paradise.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 926
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: anime, seinen, detective, cyberpunk anime
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Plot Summary:
In the year 2036 man kind has revolutionized the medical field. Scientist have conquered death via the use of internal nanomachines and the “Shell System,” however, only the richest can afford to partake. Yozo Oba has been troubled by strange dreams and one day joins his friend’s biker gang. They embark to the “The Inside,” where society’s elite live, however, this begins a terrifying journey of discovery that will change Yozo’s life forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: anime, suspense, bleak, unusual plot structure, futuristic, surreal, adult animation
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Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG - Individual Eleven (2006)
Plot Summary:
The year is 2030. Six months passed since the Laughing Man Incident was solved. About 3 million refugees are living in Japan, invited to fill the labor shortage. However, the emergent presence of the invited-refugees intensified their confrontation with the "Individualists", who called for national isolation, which then led to the increased incidences of terrorist attacks. Under these circumstances, a terrorist group called the Individual Eleven carries out a suicide attack. But there was a greater scheme behind their action. When Section 9 learns this, they attempt to nail down the mastermind of the incident. Meanwhile, Kuze, a surviving member of the Individual Eleven, becomes a charismatic leader of the invited-refugees and intensifies the confrontation against the government. And Motoko starts feeling a strange sense of fate connecting her with Kuze.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 162 min
Plot tags: anime, serious, exciting, suspenseful, cyber, tense, captivating, stylized, cyberpunk anime