Movies tagged with the "anime" keyword

Genres: Action | Adventure | Animation | Sci-Fi | Thriller | Actors: Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Tesshô Genda, Hiroshi Ôtake, Kôichi Kitamura, Michihiro Ikemizu, Yuriko Fuchizaki, Masaaki Ôkura, Tarô Arakawa, Takeshi Kusao, Kazumi Tanaka, Masayuki Katô, Yôsuke Akimoto, Masato Hirano, Directors: Katsuhiro Ôtomo,  Plot Summary: Kaneda is a bike gang leader whose close friend Tetsuo gets involved in a government secret project known as Akira. On his way to save Tetsuo, Kaneda runs into a group of anti-government activists, greedy politicians, irresponsible scientists and a powerful military leader. The confrontation sparks off Tetsuo's supernatural power leading to bloody death, a coup attempt and the final battle in Tokyo Olympiad where Akira's secrets were buried 30 years ago.

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Genres: Action | Animation | Drama | Sci-Fi | Actors: Clayton Watson, Akio Ôtsuka, Terrence 'T.C.' Carson, Dane A. Davis, John DeMita, John Di Maggio, Alex Fernandez, Jack Fletcher, Rick Gomez, Tom Kenny, Phil LaMarr, Matt McKenzie, Keanu Reeves, Kevin Michael Richardson, Rodney Saulsberry, Directors: Peter Chung,  Plot Summary: Anthology of nine short anime (Japanese animation) films tied in to the 1999 blockbuster "The Matrix" and its sequels. "Final Flight of the Osiris": The crew of the hovercraft Osiris attempt to warn their city of an imminent attack. "The Second Renaissance, Parts 1 & 2": The story behind the war between man and the machines, how mankind scorched the sky, and the creation of the Matrix. "Kid's Story": A teenager is contacted by Neo, and manages to escape the Matrix. "Program": Two warriors battle in a samurai training simulation when one decides to betray his crewmates and re-enter the Matrix. "World Record": A champion sprinter manages to break free of the Matrix by sheer physical effort during a record attempt. "Beyond": A young girl searching for her cat discovers a haunted house caused by a glitch in the system. "A Detective Story": Private investigator Ash tracks a hacker named Trinity through the looking glass. "Matriculated": A group of humans capture a machine scout and insert it into a 'human matrix'.

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Genres: Action | Animation | Sci-Fi | Actors: Ai Kobayashi, Jûrôta Kosugi, Yuki Matsuoka, Asumi Miwa, Akimoto Tsubasa, Jack Aubree, William Bassett, Michael Forest, Yuzuru Fujimoto, William Knight, Takehito Koyasu, Steve Kramer, Michael McConnohie, Toshiyuki Morikawa, Ryûji Nakagi, Directors: Shinji Aramaki,  Plot Summary: In a utopian society created at the end of the third world war, a female warrior who has been plucked from the badlands begins to see cracks in this new facade. And what does this community have planned for the rest of humankind?

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Genres: Action | Adventure | Animation | Drama | Fantasy | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller | Actors: Maaya Sakamoto, Tomokazu Seki, Jôji Nakata, Mayumi Iizuka, Minami Takayama, Kôji Tsujitani, Shinichirô Miki, Ikue Ootani, Trevor Devall, Brian Dobson, Michael Dobson, Paul Dobson, Brian Drummond, Andrew Francis, Nobuyuki Hiyama, Directors: Kazuki Akane,  Plot Summary: High school student Hitomi Kanzaki, depressed and despondent, wishes to disappear from her world. Her wishes are heard in the alternate world of Gaea where a battle for absolute control is raging! Magically, Hitomi is suddenly transported to this other world and is bestowed with the power to decide its ultimate fate!

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Genres: Action | Adventure | Animation | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Actors: Kitao Sakurai, Ayumi Ito, Shotaro Morikubo, Maaya Sakamoto, Keiji Fujiwara, Taiten Kusunoki, Yûji Kishi, Kenji Nomura, Shogo Suzuki, Masahiro Kobayashi, Kazuyuki Yama, Yumi Kakazu, Hideo Ishikawa, Masachika Ichimura, Miyuu Tsuzuhara, Directors: Tetsuya Nomura,  Plot Summary: Two years after "Final Fantasy 7", life seems to have returned to a state of normality after Sephiroth's attempts at mass genocide and the danger of Meteor. On the edge of the ruins of the metropolis Midgar, a new city has thrived, called the Edge and at it's center lies a monument that entails no one will forget Meteor and the ones who died. Cloud Strife, the hero who defeated Sephiroth, is a delivery boy now, no longer interested in fighting wars or leading rebellions. The world is at peace, and AVALANCHE is gone it's separate ways. Tifa Lockheart has reopened the new 7th Heaven, in the Edge, looking after Marlene and other orphans, including Denzel. Barret Wallace is working with the WRO in finding new energy sources to supply the world now that Mako is no longer used. Cid Highwind is also working with the WRO, as an airship pilot and leader of their air fleet. Reeve (and Cait Sith) is now heading the WRO and working, striving, to create a better world for all. Vincent Valentine has returned to solace, switching his places between his mansion home in Nibleheim and the Sleeping Forest, and the Forgotten City. Yuffie Kirisagi is back in Wutai, though what the Ninja is doing is unknown to all. But despite this lull in adventure, there is something that is striving the world. Geostigma, the Sephiroth, JENOVA's memetic legacy. A disease that counters the body's own defence system in on itself and causes it to destroy itself. Rufus ShinRa, ex-President of Midgar, is a sufferer of the disease, along with the ex-SOLDIER Cloud, and lives now in his hide-away home the Healin Lodge with his faithful bodyguards, the Turks. But who are the mysterious silver haired band, known as Kadaj's Gang? Kadaj, Loz and Yazoo, all of silver hair and teal eyes. Who are these strange people, who appear so much like Sephiroth?

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Genres: Action | Animation | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller | Actors: Atsuko Tanaka, Akio Ôtsuka, Tamio Ôki, Iemasa Kayumi, Kôichi Yamadera, Tesshô Genda, Richard Barnes, Steven Jay Blum, Steve Bulen, Richard Cansino, Tom Carlton, George Celik, Shigeru Chiba, Stephen Davis, Richard Epcar, Directors: Mamoru Oshii,  Plot Summary: The year is 2029. The world has become intensively information oriented and humans are well-connected to the network. Crime has developed into a sophisticated stage by hacking into the interactive network. To prevent this, Section 9 is formed. These are cyborgs with incredible strengths and abilities that can access any network on Earth.

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Genres: Comedy | Drama | Horror | Actors: Snoop Dogg, Ernie Hudson, Danny Trejo, Pooch Hall, Anson Mount, Daniella Alonso, Lin Shaye, Brande Roderick, Richard Gant, Aries Spears, Dallas Page, Jeffrey Licon, Noel Gugliemi, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Tucker Smallwood, Directors: Stacy Title,  Plot Summary: A hip hop horror anthology of three tales of terror told by the Hound of Hell (Snoop Dogg) that revolve around the residents of an inner-city neighborhood whose actions determine where they will go in the afterlife.

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Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Actors: Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Will Arnett, Dane Cook, Josh Flitter, Dan Fogler, Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen, Shelby Adamowsky, Carol Burnett, Samantha Droke, Isla Fisher, Selena Gomez, Joey King, Directors: Jimmy Hayward,  Plot Summary: One day, Horton the elephant hears a cry from help coming from a speck of dust. Even though he can't see anyone on the speck, he decides to help it. As it turns out, the speck of dust is home to the Whos, who live in their city of Whoville. Horton agrees to help protect the Whos and their home, but this gives him nothing but torment from his neighbors, who refuse to believe that anything could survive on the speck. Still, Horton stands by the motto that, "After all, a person is a person, no matter how small."

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Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller | Actors: Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Daryl Hannah, David Carradine, Michael Madsen, Julie Dreyfus, Chiaki Kuriyama, Sonny Chiba, Chia Hui Liu, Michael Parks, Michael Bowen, Jun Kunimura, Kenji Ohba, Yuki Kazamatsuri, Directors: Quentin Tarantino,  Plot Summary: "The Bride" was once part of a group of world class female assassins, until the group leader, "Bill" and the other assassins turn against her. Four years later "The Bride" awakens from the coma the assassins left her in and heads out to seek bloody revenge. Unlike conventional movies, Kill Bill is told in chapter format making the narrative flow more like a book than a film.

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Genres: Adventure | Animation | Family | Actors: Veronica Taylor, Rachael Lillis, Ted Lewis, Eric Stuart, Madeleine Blaustein, Ikue Ootani, Stan Hart, Kayzie Rogers, Directors: Michael Haigney,  Kunihiko Yuyama,  Plot Summary: Ash Ketchum must put his skill to the test when he attempts to save the world from destruction. The Greedy Pokemon collector Lawrence III throws the universe into chaos after disrupting the balance of nature by capturing one of the Pokemon birds that rule the elements of fire, lightning and ice. Will Ash have what it takes to save the world?

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Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Fantasy | Short | Actors: Directors: Jim Simon,  Plot Summary: This whaked out anime short pulls out all the stops, making fun of every aspect of the story and filmmaking in general. Britain Dunham speaks like Arnold Schwarzenegger as "The Tinmanator" in this adaptation of the L. Frank Baum classic of the girl carried to a fantastic realm who must seek out the Wizard to get home. The Wizard here speaks just like Elmer Fudd.

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