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Yume no ginga

Yume no ginga

Gakuryu Ishii 1997 1h 30m

Tomiko falls in love with Niitaka, even though she also suspects him of being the Tokyo bus driver serial killer, who killed his female conductors after tiring of them.

Versus

Versus

Ryuhei Kitamura 2000 2h 7.1

Several Japanese mobsters are dispatched to pick up an escaped convict in a place known as the "Forest of Resurrection," where the dead have recently become reanimated as zombies. The convict they are sent to retrieve turns out to have a strange destiny involving repeated reincarnations of himself and several other people throughout history.

Gunnm

Gunnm

Hiroshi Fukutomi 1993 54m 8.0

Battle Angel Alita tells the story of Alita ("Gally" in the original Japanese version), an amnesiac female cyborg. This cyborg's intact head and upper torso are found in a state of suspended animation by the cybermedic expert Daisuke Ido while he is out searching for useful scrap.

Izo

Izo

Takashi Miike 2004 2h 8m 6.5

Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun's men, Izo is captured and crucified. Instead of being extinguished, his rage propels him through the space-time continuum to present-day Tokyo. Here Izo transforms himself into a new, improved killing machine.

Tengoku kara kita otoko-tachi

Tengoku kara kita otoko-tachi

Takashi Miike 2000 1h 54m

The ever-prolific Takashi Miike directs this wild and woolly prison drama, reportedly based on real-life cases of Japanese imprisoned abroad.

1 ichi

1 ichi

Masato Tanno 2003 1h 23m

In this prequel we witness the teenage roots of Ichi's manic-depressive beginnings and the origins of his monster-sized kicks and his anger, his psychological, as well as physical, beatings.

Monzetsu!! Oshioki haihiiru

Monzetsu!! Oshioki haihiiru

Takashi Kodama 1995 1h 10m 4.0

A trio of ladies punishes rapists and lechers in painful ways.