Spoiler warning  In 2000, the Seele Corporation organized an expedition to Antarctica led by Dr.Katsuragi. This expedition discovered a creature in Antarctica, later named the First Angel, Adam. The experiment conducted on him led to a cataclysm on the planet. The true cause of the cataclysm was hidden from the public. Original titl…

Spoiler warning A community of magical shape-shifting raccoon dogs struggle to prevent their forest home from being destroyed by urban development. Original title: Heisei Tanuki Gassen Ponpoko Country: Japan Director: Isao Takahata Director of Photography: Atsushi Okui Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Spoiler warning On Christmas Eve, three homeless people living on the streets of Tokyo discover a newborn baby among the trash and set out to find its parents. Original title: Tôkyô Goddofâzâzu Country: Japan Director: Satoshi Kon Director of Photography: Katsutoshi Sugai Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Spoiler warning 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. Original title: Sen To Chihiro No Kamikakushi Country: Japan Director: Hayao Miyazaki Director of Photography: Atsushi Okui Genre: Adventure, Fantas…

Spoiler warning 2022: A future war has raged for decades between the few human survivors and an endless army of machines. 1997: The AI known as Skynet gained self- awareness and began its war against humanity. Country: Japan, United States Created: Mattson Tomlin Director: Masashi Kudō Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Spoiler warning 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. Original title: Mononoke-hime Country: Japan Director: Hayao Miyazaki Director of Photography: Atsushi Okui…

Spoiler warning Set on a future Earth that has been ripped apart by natural disasters. Civilization has turned into a brutish nightmare of survival. Violence Jack is caught in the crossfire when a new violent war erupts. Original title: Baiorensu Jakku Country: Japan Director: Osamu Kamijô Director of Photography: Norihide Kubota Ge…

Spoiler warning A horror story about an enemy within. Only one man can control it, but he's losing to the demon. Original title: Baio Hantâ Country: Japan Director: Yūzō Satō Director of Photography: Hitoshi Yamaguchi Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi

Spoiler warning A terrorist explosion releases a deadly virus on the masses, and it's up to the bounty-hunting Bebop crew to catch the cold-blooded culprit. Original title: Kaubōi Bibappu: Tengoku no Tobira Country: Japan Director: Shinichirō Watanabe Director of Photography: Yōichi Ōgami Genre: Action, Crime, Cyberpunk, Sci-Fi

Spoiler warning Armitage is a brash cybernetic cop with a racy wardrobe who patrols a Mars metropolis. She and her stoic partner, Sylibus, risk everything to track a killer who is revealing his female victims' identities as highly-advanced androids. Original title: Amitēji Pori Matorikkusu Country: Japan Director: Hiroyuki Ochi …

Spoiler warning Fear runs rampant throughout Tokyo with the revelation that demons in fact exist amongst us. Paranoia and the darker side of humanity boils onto the streets as people turn on one another, suspecting that anyone could in fact be a demon hiding in human clothing. Original title: Amon Debiruman Mokushiroku Country: Japa…

Spoiler warning A young girl, orphaned at an early age, carries out assassinations at the behest of her mentor. Original title: A Kaito Country: Japan Director: Yasuomi Umetsu Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Spoiler warning Golgo 13 is hired to assassinate Queen Bee, the second-in-command of a South American rebel army, to prevent her from killing the United States democratic presidential nominee. Country: Japan Director: Osamu Dezaki Director of Photography: Hajime Noguchi and Hirokata Takahashi Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Spoiler warning More races and challenges for soon-to-be-graduate/drift racer Takumi Fujiwara. Of course, with all the bells and whistles of a big screen production. Country: Japan Director: Fumitsugu Yamaguchi Genre: Action, Romance, Sport

Spoiler warning Based on the legendary video game series. This anime classic follows Ryu, a talented fighter who may be the greatest in all of the world, and Bison, the evil mastermind searching for Ryu's talents. Original title: Sutorîto Faitâ II Gekijô-Ban Country: Japan Director: Gisaburō Sugii Director of Photography: Hiroak…

Spoiler warning A swordsman from a strange land is caught in a struggle between morality, righteousness, and devotion as he reluctantly agrees to take a raggedy boy and his dog to a remote, Buddhist temple. Original title: Sutorenjia Mukōhadan Country: Japan Director: Masahiro Andō Director of Photography: Yohei Miyahara Genre: Acti…

Spoiler warning Thorfinn pursues a journey with his father's killer in order to take revenge and end his life in a duel as an honorable warrior and pay his father a homage. Country: Japan Director: Shuhei Yabuta Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama

Spoiler warning Opening in 2032, Public Security Section 9 cybernetic operative Batou is teamed with Togusa, an agent with very few cybernetic upgrades, following the events of Ghost in the Shell. Original title: Inosensu: Innocence Country: Japan Director: Mamoru Oshii Director of Photography: Miki Sakuma Genre: Action, Cyberpunk, …

The expendable crew of a corporate space vessel must stop a murderous shape-shifting alien organism that somehow got on board. Country: Japan Director: Hisayuki Toriumi Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

A British taskforce, lead by the daughter of the vampire hunter Prof. Van Helsing, battles the supernatural with the aid of two vampires. Original title: Herushingu Country: Japan Director: Umanosuke Iida and Yasunori Urata Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror