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Plot Summary:
A World War II anthology film based on Leiji Matsumoto's Battlefield manga. Kawajiri's Slipstream follows a Luftwaffe pilot on his mission to protect Germany's trump card: the world's first atomic bomb. Imanishi's Sonic Boom Squadron explores the last hours of an Yokosuka MXY7 Ohka pilot on August 6, 1945. Takahashi's Knight of the Iron Dragon tells the story of two Japanese soldiers in Leyte as they attempt to keep a promise.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Animation, Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: anime, anthology
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Goooal! (1993)
Plot Summary:
Toshihiko Tanaka decided to go to Kakegawa high school after graduating from junior high, along with Kazuhiro Hiramatsu and Kenji Shiraishi, the other two members of the Golden Trio in Kakenjshi Junior High football team. Although there are some problems at the beginning, the new players finally fit the team well And after being trained by the team's junior caption Yoshiharu Kubo. A year before, freshman player Kubo led the two-month-old team to the quarterfinal in the highly competitive Shizuoka province tournament single handedly. The new team needs to rebuild itself before the National Tournament in summer, without their leader Kubo. Assistant caption Atsushi Kamiya remains strong and shows great leadership to replace the caption spot, and new comer Keigo Mahori fulfills Kubo's mid-field position. This totally break team inherits the spirit of Kubo and again aims for the national championship. Toshihiko, who takes Kubo's number 10 jersey, now needs to endeavor for his skill in.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime
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Porphy's Long Journey (2008)
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Focuses on features a Greek boy named Porphyras Patagos (more fondly known as Porphy) and his sister Mina, who have been orphaned after a devastating earthquake which destroyed their home in Greece. The two decide to travel through Europe in search of a new home.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Animation, War
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime
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Future War 1986 (1982)
Plot Summary:
An American scientist constructs a laser satellite with hopes of preventing any nuclear conflicts from occurring. However, after a fatal error from both the US and the USSR governments, war breaks out and humanity faces a new bloodshed.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: anime
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Yomigaeru Sora – Rescue Wings (2006)
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Yomigaeru Sora - Rescue Wings - is a Japanese anime series produced by J.C. STAFF which aired on TV Tokyo in 2006. The main character is 2nd Lieutenant Uchida Kazuhiro, a helicopter pilot in a search and rescue wing of the Japan Air Self Defense Force. A live-action movie adaptation was produced in 2008, with the original Japanese premiere on 2009. Two manga series were also written, having different storylines but based on the overall theme of SAR squads and personnel. The real life JASDF Komatsu Air Base hosts a search and rescue wing in addition to two fighter wings with F-15J's and T-4's as portrayed in the anime. JDS Haruna, on which Hongou lands on to refuel in Episode 3, is a real ship of the JMSDF.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Animation, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, disturbing
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Blue Thermal (2022)
Plot Summary:
Arriving from Nagasaki with her wishful mantra is Tamaki Tsuru, who in high school could think only about volleyball. Things don’t begin well, however, when she looks for an extracurricular club to join and proceeds to immediately ding a glider at aviation club tryouts ending up having to work it off. She is initially disillusioned with campus life. Then Kuramochi, the club leader and glider pilot, takes Tamaki under his wing, and from the moment he takes her up for a flight in a glider, Tamaki becomes a captive of the vast beauty of the skies.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: anime
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Rowdy Sumo Wrestler Matsutaro!! (2014)
Plot Summary:
Matsutarō Sakaguchi is a giant roughneck man with strength far beyond ordinary people. He never uttered words like "work hard," "strive," and "dream" like the typical shōnen manga protagonist, and he is stronger than anyone and peerless in sumo wrestling. His greatest weakness, however, is his own carefree personality.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime
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For Whom the Alchemist Exists: The Movie (2019)
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Set in the continent of Babel, where the Tower of Babel looms large over seven nations. After the invention of alchemy led to its use as a tool of war that brought humanity to the brink of extinction, the seven nations struck an uneasy peace that led to a prohibition on alchemy for hundreds of years since. In the Continental Year 911, the nation of Lustrice broke the pact by assembling an army bolstered by alchemy, with ambitions of conquest over the continent. Led by Envylia, the six nations allied and struck down the rogue nation, casting alchemy once again to darkness. But 20 years after the war, alchemy once again begins to cause chaos in the land.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, mecha
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Saint Seiya Omega (2012)
Plot Summary:
A spin-off based on the Saint Seiya series.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 662
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, shounen
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Tamayura: Graduation Photo Part 4 - Ashita (2016)
Plot Summary:
The last movie of a four-part finale of Tamayura.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime
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Young Black Jack (2015)
Plot Summary:
The year is 1968, and the world is swept up in the Vietnam War and student protests. In this time of turmoil, a mysterious young man with white and black hair and a scar on his face is enrolled in medical school. His genius skills with a surgical knife achieve many a medical miracle and are getting noticed. This hero origin story reveals how this young man earned his medical degree and the name of Black Jack.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Animation, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, captivating, disturbing, medical drama, super sentai
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Soukou Kihei Votoms: Pailsen Files Movie (2009)
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Set after the 1988 OVA movie Red Shoulder Document: Roots of Ambition and months before the events of the VOTOMS television series, Pailsen Files explores the origins of Chirico Cuvie as explained by the Red Shoulder Battalion's now-disgraced commander, Col Yoran Pailsen. Compilation of the Pailsen Files OAV series.
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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Adieu Galaxy Express 999 (1981)
Plot Summary:
Two years after the events of Galaxy Express 999, Earth has become a battlefield, and Tetsuro is summoned to board the Three-Nine once more. In this, the shattering, full-length theatrical conclusion to Leiji Matsumoto's epic story, all questions will be answered and all mysteries will be revealed as Tetsuro embarks on a journey which will reveal a secret so awful, even Maetel herself can hardly bear to speak of it.
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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Your Voice -KIMIKOE- (2017)
Plot Summary:
The story focuses on high school girl Nagisa Yukiai who lives in a seaside town. She has believed her grandmother's story that spirits dwell in words and they are called "kotodama" (word spirit). One day, she strays into a mini FM station that has not been used for years. As an impulse of the moment, she tries to talk like a DJ using the facility. But her voice accidentally broadcasted reaches someone she has never expected.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Animation, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: anime
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Animation Runner Kuromi 2 (2004)
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Following Studio Petit's popularity for Time Journey's, the crew is now faced with 3 anime at the same time. Rushing to fill the quotas, the owner of Studio Petit hires Takashimadaira, a veteran producer to help Kuromi. However, all Takashimadaira cares about is making deadlines, severely hurting the quality of the images. Shihonmatsu, who has been helping Kuromi, gets angry at the new producer and leaves, leaving Kuromi with a difficult choice: to choose between the quality or the deadline.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: anime
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Fate/Grand Order the Movie: Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot Wandering; Agateram (2020)
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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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Space Battleship Yamato - Final Chapter (1983)
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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Turn A Gundam: Earth Light (2002)
Plot Summary:
Loran Cehack is a spy sent from the moon to scout out Earth, whom they plan to invade. He grows to love Earth as his true home and, after discovering a giant mech from the dark ages, he begins to defend Earth in the war. The year is C.C. 2345. Growing tensions between the Earthrace and Moonrace have spiraled into an all out war. Mankind's only hope for peace lies with a young Moonrace boy named Loran Cehack, and his mysterious Turn-A Gundam, a relic of a dark history which nearly destroyed the Earth centuries ago. As a citizen of the moon, Loran is loyal to the beautiful Queen Dianna Soreil, all the while fighting to keep the technologically superior Moonrace at bay as the pre-industrial Earthrace tries desperately to catch up.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Animation, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: anime, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized
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Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin III - Dawn of Rebellion (2016)
Plot Summary:
Universal Century 0074. Since leaving Texas Colony, Édouard Mass has camouflaged his identity and enrolled in the Autonomous Republic of Zeon's Space Defense Military Academy under the name of Char Aznable. He develops a friendship with his classmate Garma, a scion of the Zabi family. Gradually the two become admired by the other students. Then, in Universal Century 0077, the young at last rise up in arms and begin the fight for independence against the Earth Federation's security forces. This rebellion, however, also marks the beginning of Char’s spectacular scenario of revenge… Now, the gears of history are turning!.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 573
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, captivating, futuristic, disturbing
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Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin II - Artesia's Sorrow (2015)
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In the year UC 0071, three years after escaping the Zabi faction on an Ocean Cargo ship, Artesia and Casval are living happily in Andalusia, Spain, Earth under the identities of Sayla Mass and Éduoard Mass, respectively; masquerading as the children of Don Teabolo Mass, a long time friend of their father Zeon Zum Deikun.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 557
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, tense, captivating, futuristic, disturbing
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Togainu no Chi: Bloody Curs (2010)
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After being devastated in the third World War (known as The Third Division), Japan was divided in two. Several years after the end of the war, a crime organization called Vischio has taken control of the destroyed city of Toshima (formerly Tokyo, Japan's capital city), where they are holding a battle game known as Igura.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime
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Bibliophile Princess (2022)
Plot Summary:
When book-loving Lady Elianna spots Prince Christopher—her betrothed in name only—consorting with another noble lady, she realizes the recent rumors must be true. The prince has someone he truly loves, which means the annulment of their engagement is both inevitable and fast-approaching. What she doesn't realize is that this is merely a surface ripple—one of many where the truth runs deep, in a conspiracy surpassing her imagination!.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime
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Anne Frank's Diary (1999)
Plot Summary:
During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Animation, Biography, Drama, War
Country: UK, Japan, Ireland, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: anime
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The Sky Crawlers (2008)
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Youngsters called Kildren, who are destined to live eternally in their adolescence. The Kildren are conscious that every day could be the last, because they fight a war as entertainment, organized and operated by adults. But as they embrace the reality they are faced with, they live their day-to-day lives to the full.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, dieselpunk, captivating, entertaining, manga, suspense, adult animation, serious, stylized
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Area 88: The Blue Skies of Betrayal (1985)
Plot Summary:
Compilation of Area 88 Acts I-III. A pilot struggles to retain his humanity when he is shanghaied into a mercenary jet fighter force.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags: anime, shounen, vintage
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Wings of Honneamise (1987)
Plot Summary:
On a future Earth, war between the Kingdom of Honneamise and its rival, The Republic, is inevitable. As evolving technology creates new ways to wage war, a small group seeks to propel mankind into space in their world’s first spaceflight program. For astronaut candidate Shirotsugh Lhadatt, it’s a personal odyssey as he grows from an aimless young man into a leader willing to put everything on the line in order to move the human race forward and away from the brink of Armageddon.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: anime, stylized, manga, exciting, serious, psychological, tense, inspirational, atmospheric, thought provoking
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Kingdom (2012)
Plot Summary:
Kingdom (2012) In the Warring States Period of ancient China (475-221 BCE), Shin and Hyou are war-orphans in the kingdom of Qin. They dream of one day proving themselves on the battlefield. One day, however, Hyou is taken to the palace by a minister. Winding up on the losing side of a power-struggle, Hyou manages to return to the village, barely alive. Shin then meets a boy who closely resembles Hyou, Ei Sei. For now he is the king of Qin; later he will become the emperor Shi Huangdi.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime
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Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
Plot Summary:
In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no surviving relatives and their emergency rations depleted, Seita and Setsuko struggle to survive.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 301000
Genere: Animation, Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: depressing, anime, touching, heartbreaking, sad, emotional, harsh, dramatic, sentimental, tear jerker
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The Princess and the Pilot (2011)
Plot Summary:
The war between the Levamme Empire and the Amatsukami Imperium has been raging for years. In the midst of this struggle, the prince of the Levamme Empire declares his love for Juana del Moral and vows to end the war in one year, as part of his marriage proposal. When the Amatsukami catch wind of this, they assault the del Moral residence, targeting Juana's life. As a last-ditch effort to bring the prince his bride, the San Maltilia Airforce employs a mercenary of mixed blood—a bestado—to fly Juana to the prince in secret.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Romance, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, sincere, romantic, serious, captivating