Rintaro
Rintaro, pseudonym of Shigeyuki Hayashi, is a well-known anime director. He works frequently with the animation studio Madhouse (which he co-founded), though he is a freelance director not employed directly by any one studio. He is a founding member of the Japanese Animation... Read full bio →
Meikyû monogatari
In the future, a race car driver uses his psychokinetic abilities against his opponents.
Hi no tori: Uchû-hen
This animated version of the original story by Osamu Tezuka depicts the cruelty of love through the fate of spacemen destined to drift through the universe after losing their mother ship.
Kamui no ken
Young Jiro finds his mother and sister murdered at home; falsely accused, he flees to a new life and trains to be an assassin.