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Plot Summary:
After realizing the value of life and the importance of his own allies, Makoto finally got his smile back. As spring turns into summer, he finds himself learning more about those comrades and getting closer to them. He even meets new friends, including Aegis, an anti-Shadow android, Ken, a grade-schooler who seeks to get revenge for his late mother, and Koromaru, a dog who can use a Persona. Makoto wishes that everything will continue just as they are. However, little by little, the pieces and people in Makoto's new, happy life begin to fall apart, and he is forced to suffer the loss that comes with it.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 578
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing
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The side story takes place in 2017 a.t.b., between the rise of the “Black Knights” organization and the return of the supposedly "dead" Zero. The setting is in Europe, where the European Union (E.U.) allied nations are being invaded by the overwhelming forces of the Holy Britannian Empire. On the verge of defeat, the E.U. army forms a special unit known as “W-0″, of which a young pilot named Akito Hyuga is a member. Leila Malkal , a former Britannian Aristocrat comes to the E.U.'s aid, commanding the “Wyvern” Knightmare corps comprised of Japanese teenagers. They recklessly plunge into a battlefield, where the survival rate is extremely low, at about 5% only. They fight for their freedom and for a "home" to which they can return.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 947
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, manga, seinen
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min
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IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing
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Mazinkaiser (2001)
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In one of their epic battles, the Mazinger Team suffers a crushing defeat at the hands of Dr. Hell and his minions after Mazinger Z is stolen and its pilot, the legendary Kouji Kabuto, is rendered missing in action. Just when Dr. Hell's second-in-command Baron Ashura uses Mazinger Z against our heroes, Kouji makes a surprise return in Mazinkaiser—an all-new Mazinger with heavier armor and deadlier attacks.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 233
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Country: Japan
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Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, disturbing, mecha
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Tanjiro finds his family slaughtered and the lone survivor, his sister Nezuko Kamado, turned into a Demon. To his surprise, however, Nezuko still shows signs of human emotion and thought. Thus begins Tanjiro's journey to seek out the Demon who killed their family and turn his sister human again. A recap film of Kimetsu no Yaiba, covering episodes 1-5 with extra footage.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
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Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
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Tanjiro, now a registered Demon Slayer, teams up with fellow slayers Zenitsu and Inosuke to investigate missing person cases on the mountain Natagumo. After the group is split up during a fight with possessed swordfighters, they slowly begin to realize the entire mountain is being controlled by a family of Demon spider creatures. A recap film of Kimetsu no Yaiba, covering episodes 15-21 with some new footage and special ending credits.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense
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Persona 3 the Movie: #4 Winter of Rebirth (2016)
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"The time of destruction is coming ever closer without a doubt. It cannot be stopped." To know death, to gaze at death, to face death. Makoto and his allies have grown through the many meetings and partings they have experienced. Their fight might not be for the sake of the world, but for themselves. Even so, they have continued to fight, believing that there are peaceful days waiting at the end of the battle. However, a boy says that destruction is the fate that humanity must shoulder. The boy they believed to be their friend tells them the truth of the situation without an emotion on his face. The season changes to winter. Makoto makes a decision in order to greet the spring that is waiting beyond.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
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Persona 3 the Movie: #3 Falling Down (2015)
Plot Summary:
The season turns to autumn. The fight of the protagonist and his group S.E.E.S. with the strange monsters called ‘Shadows’ is getting closer to the end. Makoto and his allies engage in life-or-death battles with Shadows in order to end the Dark Hour. Through the battles, some must face the deaths of friends and family, some must notice what precious things must be protected, and some must find meaning in the battles that have occurred. In front of Makoto, the mysterious transfer student Ryouji Mochizuki appears. When the group greets a new morning, the gears of fate begin to turn. A fight revolving around each of the heroes' bonds begins.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min
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In a relatively near future, an innovative technology has emerged. On social networks, rumors are circulating about strange phenomena whose authenticity is unknown, referred to as "Hologram Ghosts". Hiro Amanokawa is a high school freshman at Hazakura Academy, who by activating a mysterious device left behind by his father called "Digivice", has the effect of making unknown creatures that cannot be seen by ordinary people, the Digimon, visible to his eyes. Since the day he met Gammamon, a mischievous Digimon entrusted to him by his father, Hiro is caught up in various strange phenomena: A man with a sewn mouth steals time from human beings, a mummy man wanders around every night and kidnaps humans... The hologram ghosts are all around us, and take us for target. From now on, here is the story of this other side of the world that nobody is aware of. With their friends, Hiro and Gammamon dive into the mysterious world where these creatures live.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 134
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Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 236
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Country: Japan
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Theatrical-release adaptation of the visual novel "Fate/stay night", following the third and final route. (Part 2 of a trilogy.).
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 267
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IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 24000
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IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 129
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 592
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Duration:
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 139
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 24
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IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 100
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In the spring, male student Makoto Yuki transfers to Gekkoukan High School. However, as he heads to his new dormitory, listening to the music on his headphones, he is stopped. More precisely, time has stopped, and the people who were around him turn into coffins. Makoto learns that this period of time hidden between the minute of midnight is called the Dark Hour, a time when monsters called Shadows appear. Suddenly made the leader of his fellow classmates Yukari and Junpei by his upperclassmen Mitsuru and Akihiko, Makoto must learn empathy, his connection to his comrades, and the meaning of death. With the power of his Evoker aimed at his head, Makoto fights against the Shadows threatening to attack his world from the mysterious tower of Tartarus.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 814
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Luca follows in his father's footsteps to rescue his mother from evil Ladja. Finding the heavenly hero who wields the Zenithian sword is his only hope.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
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The fourth and final film in the Rebuild of Evangelion series.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 13000
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IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 281
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 53
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Country: Japan
Duration:
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
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IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 32000
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Country: Japan
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Allen Walker is an exorcist working for the Black Order whose mission is to protect mankind from the evil Millennium Earl and his deadly Akuma. Allen and his comrades must recover lost Innocence while defending against the Earl’s terrifying army. But if they fail, Innocence will be lost forever.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 725
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