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Comments Off on Picnic (1996)
Country: Japan Director: Shunji Iwai Producer: Writer: Cast: Tadanobu Asano, Chara. Three lunatics escape from an awful asylum in this earlier TV film by Shuji Iwai. It’s not the same caliber of movie as Iwai’s Swallowtail Butterfly or April
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Country: Japan Director: Satoshi Kon Producer: Writer: Sadayuki Murai Cast: Junko Iwao, Rica Matsumoto Running Time: 81 Min Plot: Mima leaves the idol group CHAM, in order to pursue her dream as an actress. Mima climbs up the rocky road to success by
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Comments Off on Patlabor: The TV Series (1989)
Country: Japan Director: Naoyuki Yoshinaga Producer: Writer: Kazunori Itô Cast: Mîna Tominaga, Toshio Furukawa Running Time: 25 min (47 episodes) Plot: In the near future, heavy industrial robot vechiles, or Labors, have become widely used throughout the
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Comments Off on Patlabor: The Original Series (1988)
Country: Japan Director: Mamoru Oshii Producer: Writer: Cast: Mîna Tominaga, Toshio Furukawa Running Time: 25 min (7 episodes) Plot: The adventures of a giant robot police force unit. With an amiable pace and some clever writing, this OAV series introduced
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Comments Off on Patlabor: The Movie 2 (1993)
Country: Japan Director: Mamoru Oshii Producer: Writer: Kazunori Itô Cast: Mîna Tominaga, Toshio Furukawa Running Time: 100 Min Plot: A Japanese police unit who use giant anthropomorphic robots (called Labors) is caught up in a political struggle between
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Comments Off on Patlabor: The Movie (1990)
Country: Japan Director: Mamoru Oshii Producer: Writer: Kazunori Itô Cast: Shigeru Chiba, Toshio Furukawa Running Time: 100 Min Plot: A mysterious suicide and a series of unmanned robot run-aways sparks off a Police investigation into the suspicious software
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Comments Off on Night On the Galactic Railroad (1985)
Country: Japan Director: Gisaburo Sugii Producer: Masato Hara Writer: Minoru Betsuyaku Cast: Running Time: 113 Min Plot: On the night of a cat village’s Festival of the Stars, a kitten and his friend go on an celestial journey on a magical space
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Comments Off on Ninja Scroll (1995)
Country: Japan Director: Yoshiaki Kawajiri Producer: Masamichi Fujiwara Writer: Yoshiaki Kawajiri Cast: Kôichi Yamadera Running Time: 94 Min Plot: A Journeyman ninja by name of Jubei stumbles upon a plague, an evil clan of demons, a national crisis, and a
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