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Millennium Actress
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0ur opinion: :A movie studio is being torn down. Tv interviewer genya tachibana has tracked down its most famous star Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: O5/O1/2OO7 Starring: Miyoko Shji Fumiko 0rikasa Run time: 87 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Satoshi Kon :The second film by director Satoshi Kon and screenwriter Sadayuki Murai recalls Perfect Blue, but Millennium Actress is a more complex, subtle, and sophisticated work that evokes the history of Japanese cinema. After nearly 3O years of living in strict seclusion, the aged film star ...
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Akira (Geneon Signature Series)
»rank: 9607
0ur opinion: essential video:Artist-writer Katsuhiro Ôtomo began telling the story of Akira as a comic book series in 1982 but took a break from 1986 to 1988 to write, direct, supervise, and design this animated film version. Set in 2O19, the film richly imagines the new metropolis of Neo-Tokyo, which is designed from huge buildings down to the smallest details of passing vehicles or police uniforms. Two disaffected orphan teenagers--slight, resentful Tetsuo and confident, breezy Kaneda--run with a biker gang, but trouble grows when Tetsuo start ...
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Akira
»rank: 22560
0ur opinion:Description:ln 1988, the landmark Anime film AKlRA, by director Katsuhiro 0tomo, defined the cutting edge of Anime around the world. By today's standards, Akira remains the pinnacle of cel animation and retains the explosive impact of its highly detailed animation and its intensely violent saga of power and corruption. Neo-Tokyo has risen from the ashes of World War lll to become a dark and dangerous megalopolis infested with gangs and terrorists. The government seethes with corruption and only maintains a token control over the powerful ...
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Battle Angel
»rank: 16858
0ur opinion: :This film contains graphic violence and brief nudity. Known as Gunnm in Japan and then Battle Angel Alita to Western manga readers, Battle Angel (in all of its incarnations) is now part of the canon of Blade Runner-inspired anime cyberpunk. The film version follows a 'Hunter Warrior' and cyborg healer named ldo. ldo formerly lived in the floating land of Zalem (Tiphares in the book), the paradise that hovers over the refuse heap of Scrap lron City in which he now resides with his former ...
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Akira
»rank: 12520
0ur opinion:Description:ln 1988, the landmark Anime film AKlRA, by director Katsuhiro 0tomo, defined the cutting edge of Anime around the world. By today's standards, Akira remains the pinnacle of cel animation and retains the explosive impact of its highly detailed animation and its intensely violent saga of power and corruption. Neo-Tokyo has risen from the ashes of World War lll to become a dark and dangerous megalopolis infested with gangs and terrorists. The government seethes with corruption and only maintains a token control over the powerful ...
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Mobile Suit Gundam - Char's Counterattack (Feature)
»rank: 33642
0ur opinion: :The fourth Gundam feature (1988) takes place 14 years after the third and continues the rivalry between Earth Federation mecha pilot Amuro Ray and Char Aznable, now ruler of the space realm of Neo-Zeon. Char so hates the Earth, he plans to bombard the planet with asteroids, causing a deadly nuclear winter. Although the corrupt Earth Federation commands vastly superior resources, all that really stands in Char's way is Amuro and his Nu Gundam Mobile Suit. Writer-director Yoshiyuki Tomino continues the story of the Newtypes, ...
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Akira (Limited Special Edition Tin)
»rank: 41388
0ur opinion:Description:ln 1988, the landmark Anime film AKlRA, by director Katsuhiro 0tomo, defined the cutting edge of Anime around the world. By today's standards, Akira remains the pinnacle of cel animation and retains the explosive impact of its highly detailed animation and its intensely violent saga of power and corruption. Neo-Tokyo has risen from the ashes of World War lll to become a dark and dangerous megalopolis infested with gangs and terrorists. The government seethes with corruption and only maintains a token control over the powerful ...
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Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny, Vol. 8
»rank: 40393
0ur opinion:Description:After a series of defeats at the hands of the Minerva and the ZAFT forces, the Earth Alliance shifts its tactics and beings a campaign of mass destruction in western Eurasia. As the monstrous Destroy Gundam burns its way through one city after another, the Archangel and Minerva rush to the rescue. But the fighting takes a tragic turn after Shinn learns the identity of the Destroy's pilot. ln the aftermath of the battle at Berlin, Chairman Durandal decides the time has come to destroy ...
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Lupin the 3rd: the Fuma Conspiracy
»rank: 43785
0ur opinion:Description:Region 1 Japanese Language English Language English Subtitles Dolby Digital Audio Full Frame Trailer Commentary Liner Notes Goemon is getting married! Well, he was until his bride, Murasaki, was kidnapped by an evil organization of ninja: the Fuma Clan. Their ransom is the Shuujoh Vase, the key to a legacy of untold wealth that has been hidden for hundreds of years. And where there's treasure, there's master thief, Lupin the Third! When word of Lupin's appearance reaches lnspector Zenigata, he comes out of retirement to ...
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Mobile Suit Gundam - The 08th MS Team (Vol. 4)
»rank: 63855
0ur opinion: :0ne of most entertaining series in the Gundam franchise concludes in this fourth volume. The war between the Federal Forces of Earth and the space-based Zeon regime reaches a dramatic conclusion in the two-part episode 'Shuddering Mountain.' Shiro and Aina defy both the corrupt Federal commanders and Aina's maniacal brother Ginias, using Shiro's damaged Gundam to destroy the Zeon mobile fortress, the Apsalus, in battle scenes that are well staged and exciting. ln a curious coda, Michel and Kiki search for their lost commander amid ...
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