My Top 10 Anime Series
Akira (1988)
124min | Animation, Action, Drama | 16 July 1988 (Japan)
Director: Katsuhiro ÔtomoWriter: Katsuhiro Ôtomo, Izô HashimotoStars: Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama
Summary: A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath who can only be stopped by two teenagers and a group of psychics.Countries: JapanLanguages: Japanese
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
83min | Animation, Action, Crime | 29 March 1996 (USA)
Director: Mamoru OshiiWriter: Shirow Masamune, Kazunori ItôStars: Atsuko Tanaka, Iemasa Kayumi, Akio Ôtsuka
Summary: A cyborg policewoman and her partner hunt a mysterious and powerful hacker called the Puppet Master.Countries: Japan, UKLanguages: Japanese
Gantz: O (2016)
95min | Animation, Action, Drama | 14 October 2016 (Japan)
Director: Yasushi Kawamura, Kei'ichi SatoWriter: Hiroya Oku, Tsutomu KuroiwaStars: Chris Jai Alex, Tony Azzolino, Austin Nash Chase
Summary: After being brutally murdered in a subway station, a teen boy awakens to find himself resurrected by a strange computer named Gantz, and forced to fight a large force of invading aliens in Osaka.Countries: JapanLanguages: Japanese
Spirited Away (2001)
125min | Animation, Adventure, Family | 28 March 2003 (USA)
Summary: During her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts.
Countries: JapanLanguages: Japanese
Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
119min | Animation, Adventure, Family | 17 June 2005 (USA)
Director: Hayao MiyazakiWriter: Hayao Miyazaki, Diana Wynne JonesStars: Chieko Baishô, Takuya Kimura, Tatsuya Gashûin
Summary: When an unconfident young woman is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his legged, walking castle.Countries: JapanLanguages: Japanese
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006)
98min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 15 July 2006 (Japan)
Director: Mamoru HosodaWriter: Yasutaka Tsutsui, Satoko OkuderaStars: Riisa Naka, Takuya Ishida, Mitsutaka Itakura
Summary: A high-school girl named Makoto acquires the power to travel back in time, and decides to use it for her own personal benefits. Little does she know that she is affecting the lives of others just as much as she is her own.Countries: JapanLanguages: Japanese
Princess Mononoke (1997)
134min | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy | 19 December 1997 (USA)
Director: Hayao MiyazakiWriter: Hayao Miyazaki, Neil GaimanStars: Yôji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida, Yûko Tanaka
Summary: On a journey to find the cure for a Tatarigami's curse, Ashitaka finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest gods and Tatara, a mining colony. In this quest he also meets San, the Mononoke Hime.Countries: JapanLanguages: Japanese
Blood: The Last Vampire (2000)
2880min | Animation, Action, Horror | 17 August 2001 (USA)
Director: Hiroyuki KitakuboWriter: Kenji Kamiyama, Katsuya TeradaStars: Yûki Kudô, Saemi Nakamura, Joe Romersa
Summary: Saya is a Japanese vampire slayer whose next mission is in a high school on a US military base in 1960s Japan, where she poses as a student. She uses a katana/samurai sword to kill vampires.Countries: Japan, USALanguages: English, Japanese
Perfect Blue (1997)
81min | Animation, Crime, Mystery | 28 February 1998 (Japan)
Director: Satoshi KonWriter: Sadayuki Murai, Yoshikazu TakeuchiStars: Junko Iwao, Rica Matsumoto, Shinpachi Tsuji
Summary: A pop singer gives up her career to become an actress, but she slowly goes insane when she starts being stalked by an obsessed fan and what seems to be a ghost of her past.Countries: JapanLanguages: Japanese
Ninja Scroll (1993)
94min | Animation, Action, Adventure | 5 June 1993 (Japan)
Director: Yoshiaki KawajiriWriter: Yoshiaki KawajiriStars: Kôichi Yamadera, Emi Shinohara, Takeshi Aono
Summary: A vagabond swordsman is aided by a beautiful ninja girl and a crafty spy in confronting a demonic clan of killers - with a ghost from his past as their leader - who are bent on overthrowing the Tokugawa Shogunate.Countries: JapanLanguages: Japanese