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Toei Animation process video

Toei Animation process video
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oei Animation Co., Ltd (東映アニメーション株式会社, Tōei Animēshon Kabushiki-gaisha?) (JASDAQ: 4816) is a Japanese animation studio owned by Toei Co., Ltd. The studio was originally founded in 1948 as Japan Animated Films (日本動画映画, Nihon Dōga Eiga, often shortened to 日動映画 Nichidō Eiga). In 1956, Toei purchased the studio and it was reincorporated under its current name. Over the years, the studio has created a large number of TV series, and movies, and adapted many japanese comics by renowned authors to animated series, many popular worldwide. Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, Go Nagai, and Yoichi Kotabe have all worked with the company in the past. Toei is a shareholder in the Japanese anime satellite television network, Animax, along with other noted anime studios and production enterprises such as Sunrise, TMS Entertainment and Nihon Ad Systems Inc.[1][2][3]

Until 1998, Toei Animation was known as Toei Doga (東映動画株式会社, Tōei Dōga Kabushiki-gaisha?) (although even at that time the company’s formal English name was indeed “Toei Animation Co. Ltd.”), with “dōga” being the native Japanese word for “animation” which was widely used until the 1970s. Their mascot is the cat Pero, from the company's 1969 film adaptation of Puss in Boots.

Toei Animation produced the anime versions of works by many legendary manga artists, including Go Nagai, Akira Toriyama, and Shotaro Ishinomori. In addition, the studio helped propel the popularity of the magical girl and Super Robot genres of anime; among Toei's most legendary and trend-setting TV series include the first magical-girl anime series, Mahoutsukai Sally the anime adaptation of Mitsuteru Yokoyama's manga of the same name, and Go Nagai's Mazinger Z, animated adaptation of his manga, which set the standard for Super Robot anime for years to come.

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US lifetime gross Ranking
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/genres/chart/?id=anime.htm

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Akira - 1988

Akira (アキラ?) is a 1988 Japanese animated film co-written and directed by Katsuhiro Otomo based on his manga of the same name. The film is set in a neon-lit futuristic Tokyo in 2019. While most of the character designs and basic settings were directly adapted from the original 2,182 page manga epic, the restructured plot of the movie differs considerably from the print version, pruning much of the last half of the book. Akira is regarded by many critics as a landmark anime film, one that influenced much of the art in the anime world that followed its release.[1] Therefore, Akira is regarded by critics as one of the greatest animated films ever made.

The movie led the way for the growing popularity of anime in the West, with Akira considered a forerunner of the second wave of anime fandom that began in the early 1990s. One of the reasons for the movie's success was the highly advanced quality of its animation. At the time, most anime was notorious for cutting production corners with limited motion, such as having only the characters' mouths move while their faces remained static. Akira broke from this trend with meticulously detailed scenes, exactingly lip-synched dialogue—a first for an anime production (voices were recorded before the animation was completed, rather than the opposite)—and super-fluid motion as realized in the film's more than 160,000 animation cels.[2] Notable themes in the film include youth culture, cyberpunk ,delinquency, psychic awareness, social unrest, the world's reaction towards a nuclear holocaust and Japan's post-war economic revival. The film also explores a number of psychological and philosophical themes, such as the nature of corruption, the will to power, and the growth from childhood to maturity both in individuals and the human race itself. Elements of Buddhist symbolism are also present in the film.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_(film)

Iconic anime film Akira is being remade as a two-part, live-action, Hollywood blockbuster starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The first part, set in New Manhattan — supposedly rebuilt with Japanese money — will premiere next summer.

The original is credited with helping anime find a market outside Japan. Released in 1988, it tells the story of a teenage biker gang member subjected to government experimentation in a post-apocalyptic New Tokyo. It featured some of the most imaginative motorcycles ever conceived. Let’s hope the new version does too.

The films will mark the directorial debut of Ruairí Robinson, who was able to sell Warner Bros. on his vision of a re-imagined Akira. In addition to starring in them, DiCaprio will also produce the films.

http://hellforleathermagazine.com...onardo-dicaprio-to-star-in-l.html

Director:
Katsuhiro Ôtomo
Writers:
Katsuhiro Ôtomo (comic) and
Izô Hashimoto (written by)

Release Date:
24 July 2001 (USA)
Genre:
Animation / Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Tagline:
Neo-Tokyo is about to E.X.P.L.O.D.E.
Plot Outline:
A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psionic psychopath that only two kids and a group of psionics can stop.

Plot Keywords:
Nuclear Explosion / Based On Graphic Novel / Dystopian / Blood / Torso Cut In Half
Awards: 1 win

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Paprika - 2006

Paprika (2006)
- パプリカ Papurika -
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29 year old Dr. Atsuko Chiba is an attractive but modest Japanese research psychotherapist whose work is on the cutting edge of her field. Her alter-ego is a stunning and fearless 18 year old “dream detective,” code named PAPRIKA, who can enter into people’s dreams and synchronize with their unconscious to help uncover the source of their anxiety or neurosis.
At Atsuko’s lab, a powerful new psychotherapy devise known as the “DC-MINI” has been invented by her brilliant colleague, Dr. Tokita, a nerdy overweight genius. Although this state-of-art device could revolutionize the world of psychotherapy, in the wrong hands the potential misuse of the devise could be devastating, allowing the user to completely annihilate the dreamer’s personality while they are asleep.When one of the only four existing DC-MINI prototypes is stolen in the final stages of research around the same time that Dr. Tokita’s research assistant Himuro goes missing, Atsuko suspects it’s not a coincidence. If the DC MINI isn’t found, this could lead to the government’s refusal to sanction the use of the machine for psychotherapy treatment.
When several of the remaining researchers at the lab start to go mad, dreaming while in their waking states, haunted by a Japanese doll which featured heavily in the dreams of one of Himuro’s schizophrenic patients, Atsuko knows for sure that whoever is manipulating the machines has a more evil purpose. The DC MINI is being used to destroy people’s minds.

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Paprika (パプリカ, Papurika?) is a Japanese animated science fiction film, based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1993 novel of the same name, about a research psychologist who uses a device that permits therapists to help patients by entering their dreams.

The film was directed by Satoshi Kon, animated by Madhouse Studios, and produced and distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment. The film's music was composed by Susumu Hirasawa, who also composed the soundtrack for Kon's award-winning film, Millennium Actress, and equally lauded television series, Paranoia Agent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paprika_(2006_film)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0851578/

Satoshi Kon is an anime director with a lot to say - an engineer of delirious, dizzy trips through the psyche, but a spiky, tough social critic too. Drop his name in conversation with a group of avid film geeks, and you're likely to find one or two enthusiastic fans, several curious about his hype - and a few blank stares. While Kon is one of the hottest young directors in Japan, he is nothing like as famous as he deserves to be in the west. In fact, the BFI Southbank's upcoming Anime Now weekend will be a rare gem of an opportunity for UK audiences to see his bold, clever, exciting films on the big screen.

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/authors/alex_naylor/

http://movieseyes.blogspot.com/2007/12/paprika-2006.html

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Spirited Away - 2001

Spirited Away (千と千尋の神隠し, Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi?, lit. Sen and Chihiro's Spiriting Away) is a 2001 Japanese anime film written and directed by famed animator Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli.

The film received many awards, including the second Oscar ever awarded for Best Animated Feature, the first anime film to win an Academy Award, and the only winner of that award to be traditionally animated or win among five nominees (in every other year there were three nominees). The film also won the Golden Bear at the 2002 Berlin International Film Festival (tied with Bloody Sunday).

Spirited Away overtook Titanic in the Japanese box office to become the highest-grossing film in Japanese history.[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirited_Away

The divide between the physical and spiritual worlds moves quite a bit in Miyazaki’s films. Spirited Away is perhaps the most vivid illustration of this philosophy to date. Parents might nitpick whether the film is too dark for little kids, while anime fans can debate the merits of the original Japanese version versus the English version. Daveigh Chase and the English voice cast (including Pixar veteran John Ratzenberger) are said to have listened to the Japanese voice performances to help gauge their own here and are commendable. What’s indisputable is the masterful level of character design, art direction and imagination that Miyazaki invests his world with.

http://thisdistractedglobe.com/2008/09/27/spirited-away-2001/

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Ghost in the Shell - 1995

Ghost in the Shell (GHOST IN THE SHELL／攻殻機動隊, Gōsuto In Za Sheru/Kōkaku Kidōtai?, lit. Ghost in the Shell/Mobile Armoured Riot Police) is a 1995 anime film directed by Mamoru Oshii; an adaptation of the manga Ghost in the Shell by Masamune Shirow, produced by Production I.G, and written by Kazunori Itō. A sequel, Innocence, was released in 2004.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell_(film)

fter Akira, a case can be made for Ghost in the Shell being the most influential anime ever. While Akira was the first anime to crack international markets, GITS rose anime to something “real,”, and opened the doors for events like Disney’s pursuit of Miyazaki, and eventually, the truly incredibly pace of anime we see today. More important for cyberpunk films, GITS provided a myriad of thoughts and visuals that have been expanded upon in virtually all subsequent cyberpunk animes. James Cameron refers to GITS as the first truly adult animation film to reach a level of literary and visual excellence.” In addition to a wonderfully complex and introspective story, we get heart-thumping, realistic action, all served up with some incredibly revolutionary animation techniques that places GITS on a juicy platter for all to enjoy.

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Princess Mononoke - 1997

Princess Mononoke (もののけ姫, Mononoke Hime?) is a 1997 Japanese animated historical fantasy feature film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli. It was first released in Japan on July 12, 1997 and in the United States on October 29, 1999 in select cities and on November 26, 1999 in Canada.

It is a jidaigeki (period drama) set specifically in the late Muromachi period of Japan but with numerous fantasy elements and centers on the struggle between the supernatural guardians of a forest and the humans who consume its resources as seen by the outsider Ashitaka. "Mononoke" (物の怪?) is not a name, but a general term in the Japanese language for a spirit or monster.

Roger Ebert placed the movie sixth on his top ten movies of 1999.[1] Mononoke also became the highest grossing movie in Japan until Titanic took over the spot several months later. Overall, Mononoke is the third highest grossing anime movie in Japan,[citation needed] next to 2001's Spirited Away and 2004's Howl's Moving Castle, both also by Miyazaki.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Mononoke

http://thecia.com.au/reviews/p/princess-mononoke.shtml

Hayao Miyazaki's animated Princess Mononoke gives the classic human-versus-nature theme a phantasmagoric spin with a Samurai warrior, larger-than-life wolves, forest spirits and firearms. Don't expect the 90 minutes of sugary song, dance and adorable animals found in so many of Disney's animated features, because for Miyazaki--and his characters--the lines between good and evil, right and wrong, natural and spiritual are not clearly defined. In the haunting world of Princess Mononoke, forest animals, gods and humans search for their place in a constantly shifting reality. The film is both beautiful and violent as Miyazaki's creatures and worlds collide with the broader themes of human nature, survival and morality.
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Known for meticulous animation and a minimal use of computers and graphic technology, Miyazaki and his animation studio, Studio Ghibli, have produced inventive stories and characters reminiscent of such authors as Jules Verne, H.G. Wells and Johnathan Swift. As film critic A.O. Scott wrote in the New York Times, "Mr. Miyazaki is both an extravagant fantasist and an exacting naturalist; as a storyteller, he is an inventor of fables that seem at once utterly new and almost unspeakably ancient."

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Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence - 2004

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (イノセンス, Inosensu?) is the 2004 sequel to the anime film Ghost in the Shell. Released in Japan on March 6, 2004, with a U.S. release on September 17, 2004, Innocence had a production budget of approximately $20 million (approx. 2 billion yen). To raise such a large amount of money, Production I.G's president Mitsuhisa Ishikawa asked Studio Ghibli's president Toshio Suzuki to work on the project with him as a co-producer. The film is written and directed by Mamoru Oshii, with a story loosely connected to the manga by Shirow Masamune. The movie was produced by Production I.G, which also produced the original movie and the spinoff TV series Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex.

Alongside the film, there was a book published that served as a prequel to Innocence called After the Long Goodbye.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%...%AE%BB%E6%A9%9F%E5%8B%95%E9%9A%8A

The most startling of this engagement of human/machine distortion is within the style of the film. Like many current anime works, Oshii uses both traditional two-dimensional animation and compliments (and sometimes supplements) its limitations with three-dimensional computer animation. In most films the result is tacky and obvious; the two techniques generally do not blend together well and produce an alienating effect. It is no different in Innocence, but the ungainly visual look is one of a myriad of visual cues Oshii provides to reveal the mystery of his themes. For this aspect, the traditional animation, though less realistic looking, has an organic and fluid feel, while the newer computer animation has a inert, artificial lifelessness that convolutes the fact that its very dimensionality should make it appear more natural. This is only one example in a film that contains what seems a near endless amount of engagements with the blurring between man and machine. Others pop up with greater frequency than actual plot elements: the artificial reality of hacked human memory vs. what one presumes are organic perceptions (and the implications of this in movie watching); the idea of a robot keeping a pet and being loved by it; the possibility that an infinitely flexible and omniscient free-willed information based entity could function as a god, etc., etc., and so on.

http://www.d-kaz.com/reviews/review.php?id=177

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The Animatrix - 2003

Development of the Animatrix project began when the film series' writers and directors, the Wachowski brothers, were in Japan promoting the first Matrix film. While in the country, they visited some of the creators of the anime films that had been a strong influence on their work, and decided to collaborate with them.[1]

The Animatrix was conceived and overseen by the Wachowski brothers but they only wrote four of the segments themselves and did not direct any of them; most of the project was created by notable figures from the world of Japanese animation.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Animatrix

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Memories - 1995

Memories (also Otomo Katsuhiro's Memories) is an anime produced in 1995 by artist/director Otomo Katsuhiro which were based on three manga. The film is composed of three episodes: Magnetic Rose (彼女の想いで, Kanojo no Omoide?), Stink Bomb (最臭兵器, Saishū-heiki?) and Cannon Fodder (大砲の街, Taihō no Machi?).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memories_(film)

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Æon Flux - 1995

Æon Flux (pronounced /ˌiːɒn ˈflʌks/) is an avant garde American science fiction animated television series that aired on MTV. It premiered in 1991 on MTV's Liquid Television experimental animation show as a six-part serial of short films, followed in 1992 by five individual short episodes. In 1995 a season of ten half-hour episodes aired as a stand-alone series.

The visual style of Æon Flux was deeply influenced by the figurative paintings and drawings of the Austrian artist Egon Schiele. Other key influences on Æon Flux can be found in Japanese anime (especially grittier fare like Akira), and European comic works such as the work of Moebius (particularly in lineforms, color palettes, and figure characterizations). Æon Flux is often erroneously classified as an anime series. Graphic violence and sexuality, including fetishism and domination, are frequently depicted. In the featurette Investigation: The History of Æon Flux (included on the 2005 DVD release), Peter Chung says the visual style also was influenced by the limitations of the animated series Rugrats, which he worked on prior to Æon Flux and found highly frustrating in the limitations of what the characters could do.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86on_Flux

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A Scanner Darkly - 2006

A Scanner Darkly is a 2006 film directed by Richard Linklater based on the novel of the same name by Philip K. Dick. The film tells the story of identity and deception in a near-future dystopia constantly monitored by intensive high-technology police surveillance in the midst of a drug addiction epidemic. To give the film its distinct look, the movie was filmed digitally and then animated using interpolated rotoscope over the original footage.

After principal photography was finished, the film was transferred to Quicktime for a 15-month animation process: interpolated-rotoscoping. A Scanner Darkly was filmed digitally using the Panasonic AG-DVX100 and then animated with Rotoshop, a proprietary graphics editing program created by Bob Sabiston. Rotoshop uses an animation technique called interpolated rotoscope, which was previously used in Linklater's film Waking Life. Linklater discussed the ideas and inspiration behind his use of rotoscoping in a UK documentary about him in 2004, linking it to his personal experiences of lucid dreaming. Rotoscoping in traditional cel animation originally involved tracing over film frame-by-frame. This is similar in some respects to the rotoscope style of filmmaker Ralph Bakshi. Rotoshop animation, however, makes use of vector keyframes, and interpolates the in-between frames automatically.[4]

The animation phase was a trying process for Linklater who said, "I know how to make a movie, but I don't really know how to handle the animation."[1] He had gone the animation route because he felt that there was very little animation targeted for adults.[1] Each minute of animation required 350 hours of work with 50 animators working full-time every day.[7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Scanner_Darkly_(film)

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Grave of the Fireflies - 1988

rave of the Fireflies (火垂るの墓, Hotaru no Haka?) is a 1988 animated film written and directed by Isao Takahata .[1] This is the first film produced by Shinchosha, who hired Studio Ghibli to do the animation production work. It is an adaptation of the semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by Akiyuki Nosaka, intended as a personal apology to the author's own sister.

Some critics (most notably Roger Ebert) consider it to be one of the most powerful anti-war movies ever made. Animation historian Ernest Rister compares the film to Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List and says, "it is the most profoundly human animated film I've ever seen."[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_of_the_Fireflies

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Howl's Moving Castle - 2004

Howl's Moving Castle (ハウルの動く城, Hauru no Ugoku Shiro?) is a 2004 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli and based on Diana Wynne Jones' novel of the same name. Mamoru Hosoda, director of two seasons and one movie from the Digimon series, was originally selected to direct but abruptly left the project, leaving the then retired Miyazaki to take up the director's role.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howl%27s_Moving_Castle_(film)

http://www.phimhongkong.com/f/showpost.php?p=594084&postcount=3

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Renaissance - 2006

Renaissance is a 2006 animated cyberpunk/science fiction detective film by French director Christian Volckman. It was co-produced in France, United Kingdom and Luxembourg and released on 15 March 2006 in France and 28 July 2006 in the UK by Miramax Films. Renaissance features a rare visual style in which almost all images are exclusively black and white, with only occasional colour used for detail.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_(film)

Plot Outline: In 2054, Paris is a labyrinth where all movement is monitored and recorded. Casting a shadow over everything is the city's largest company, Avalon, which insinuates itself into every aspect of contemporary life to sell its primary export -- youth and beauty. In this world of stark contrasts and rigid laws the populace is kept in line and accounted for

http://dvdmoviesforsell.blogspot.com/2008/01/renaissance.html

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Kanashimi no Belladonna - 1973

Belladonna (哀しみのベラドンナ, Kanashimi no Belladonna?, literally "Belladonna of Sadness," also known as "The Tragedy of Belladonna")[1] is an art house animation feature film produced in 1973 by Mushi Production. Directed and co-written by Eiichi Yamamoto and inspired by Jules Michelet's non-fiction book Satanism and Witchcraft, it is the third and final film in the Animerama trilogy and the only one to be neither written nor directed by Osamu Tezuka (he left Mushi Production during the film's early stages to concentrate on his comics[1] and his conceptual-stage contribution is uncredited). Belladonna is also of a more serious tone than the more comedic first two Animerama films. Its visuals consist mostly of still paintings panned across[1] and are strongly influenced by western art, particularly Aubrey Beardsley,[2] Gustav Klimt[1] and classic tarot illustrations.[3] The film was a commercial failure and contributed to Mushi Pro becoming bankrupt by the end of the year.[1]

It follows the story of Jeanne, a peasant woman who is raped which leads to her being accused of witchcraft, and is notable for its graphic and suggestively erotic, violent and psychedelic imagery. The film was released in Europe and Japan, but no official DVD with English subtitles exists

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanashimi_no_Belladonna

Plot Summary: The beautiful peasant woman Jeanne is raped by a demonif overlord on her wedding night. Spurned by her husband, she has no outlet for her awakened libido, which develops to give her powers of witchcraft. Experimental watercolor animation style based on Medieval European witchcraft legends and illustrations. (animenewsnetwork)

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Cowboy Bebop: The Movie - 2001

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, known in Japan as Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door (劇場版カウボーイビバップ天国の扉, Gekijōban Kaubōi Bibappu: Tengoku no Tobira?), is a 2001 animated film directed by Shinichirō Watanabe. The screenplay was written by Keiko Nobumoto, based on the Cowboy Bebop television series created by Sunrise. Cowboy Bebop: The Movie takes place between episodes 22 and 23 of the original TV series. The plot centers on Spike Spiegel and his crew as they find a criminal who is planning to release a virus on Mars.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowb...op,_Knockin%27_on_Heaven%27s_Door

Creation and conception

Shinichirō Watanabe, creator of the Cowboy Bebop series, said in an interview he aimed to use "more difficult technical effects" available for the film to create a "live-action look" that would permeate throughout the animated film.[2] When asked what the audience should "watch out for" in the film, Watanabe responded by saying that one should not just pay attention to "images," since the creators "pushed [themselves]" on the story, the facial expressions, and "everything". In addition Watanabe said that he "kept the whole "Bebop Flavor" in mind" and that some viewers would not perceive the film as being distinct from the television series.[2]

Watanabe chose to use an "Arabesque" atmosphere, which was described by an interviewer as permeating "everywhere from the images to the music," saying that the Arab world was "alien" to him and that it "wasn't used much" in the television series. He said that he ultimately created the film "using the inspiration I got while I was in Morocco" to gain inspiration, adding that he would not have used the material in his film if he did not like what he saw.[2]

http://mag.awn.com/?article_no=1666&ltype=pageone

The studio press kit for the American-retitled Cowboy Bebop: The Movie English-dubbed theatrical feature (featuring the same popular voice cast as the TV series) says that it made "its world premiere at the Big Apple Anime Fest 2002 (BAAF) in New York City [on Labor Day weekend]." But its original Japanese release was on September 1, 2001. (It was in Japan's top 15 box office for five weeks. In July 2002 it won the SPJA Industry Award, presented at Anime Expo in Long Beach, California, in the 2001 Best Japanese Anime Theatrical Release category.) This is significant because, if it had been delayed for just a few weeks, it would have looked like a blatant and unimaginative imitation of the 9/11/01 NYC terrorism combined with its follow-ups. Cowboy Bebop: The Movie features a deadly terrorist threat involving massive explosions and what appears to be the release of an unknown bioplague that kills thousands in a cityscape that is practically rotoscoped from NYC. The suspects include a mysterious Rachid in an Arabic district. At the same time that the largest reward in history is offered for the terrorists (which attracts our Bebop gang), the authorities (both government and some powerful corporate villains) react with authoritarian force against all possible suspects. There are ominous implications that any bounty hunters who do actually find the terrorists may not be rewarded but "disappeared" for Knowing Too Much. One wonders whether a reason for the delay in the movie's general release since its film festival premiere last August has been that it was still too close to the 9/11/01 attacks.

Cowboy Bebop - The Movie

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HRCWVH37
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IFOKTOC2

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Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime

Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime
University Of Minnesota Press | 2007 | ISBN: 0816649731 | Pages: 288 | PDF | 3.08 MB

Since the end of the Second World War—and particularly over the last decade—Japanese science fiction has strongly influenced global popular culture. Unlike American and British science fiction, its most popular examples have been visual—from Gojira (Godzilla) and Astro Boy in the 1950s and 1960s to the anime masterpieces Akira and Ghost in the Shell of the 1980s and 1990s—while little attention has been paid to a vibrant tradition of prose science fiction in Japan.

Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams remedies this neglect with a rich exploration of the genre that connects prose science fiction to contemporary anime. Bringing together Western scholars and leading Japanese critics, this groundbreaking work traces the beginnings, evolution, and future direction of science fiction in Japan, its major schools and authors, cultural origins and relationship to its Western counterparts, the role of the genre in the formation of Japan’s national and political identity, and its unique fan culture.

Covering a remarkable range of texts—from the 1930s fantastic detective fiction of Yumeno Kyûsaku to the cross-culturally produced and marketed film and video game franchise Final Fantasy—this book firmly establishes Japanese science fiction as a vital and exciting genre.

http://uploading.com/files/J1RIDWKU/c24.rar.html

http://rapidshare.com/files/182307789/c24.rar

Excellent critical selection of essays on anime and manga with a chapter by Susan Napier. Great research material, thank you for the upload and please more of the same kind. Much appreciate your work.

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Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation

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Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs recently released the results of a poll it had conducted to determine the best anime movies/series. Here are the top 50 anime:

1. Neon Genesis Evangelion
2. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
3. Castle in the Sky
4. Mobile Suit Gundam
5. Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro
6. Mushi-shi
7. Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex
8. My Neighbor Totoro
9. Fullmetal Alchemist
10. Ghost in the Shell
11. Dragon Ball
12. Princess Mononoke
13. AKIRA
14. Spirited Away
15. Doraemon
16. Fullmetal Alchemist-Conqueror of Shamballa
17. Porco Rosso
18. Legend of the Galactic Heroes
19. Crayon Shin-chan
20. Gundam: Char’s Counterattack
21. Card Captor Sakura
22. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
23. Kamichu!
24. Patlabor 2: The Movie
25. Z Gundam
26. Voices of a Distant Star
27. Mobile Police Patlabor

http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=2088

Top 100 Anime List

October 16th, 2006 by James

Dark Diamond Network has posted a Top 100 Anime list compiled by TV Asahi. I guess most of them are pretty recent, since I haven’t heard of a good portion of the titles:

1 Fullmetal Alchemist (TV)
2 Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV)
3 Pani Poni Dash! (TV)
4 The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya(TV)
5 Negima: Box Set (TV)
6 Mobile Suit Gundam (TV)
7 Bleach (TV)
8 Prince of Tennis (TV)
9 Rozen Maiden(TV)
10 Strawberry Marshmallow (TV)
11 Shana (TV)
12 Dragon Ball (TV)
13 Vol. Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha(TV)
14 Eureka Seven (TV)
15 Yu Yu Hakusho (TV)
16 Overman King Gainer (TV)
17 Naruto (TV)
18 Slam Dunk (TV)
19 Kyo Kara Maoh (TV)
20 Inu-Yasha (TV)
21 One Piece (TV)
22 Gintama (TV)
23 Detective Conan(TV)
24 Saiyuki(TV)
25 Saint Seiya (TV)

http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=609

Top Ten Anime DVDs of 2006
http://www.dvdtalk.com/anime/top_ten_anime_d.html

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Animal Farm - 1954

Animal Farm is a 1954 British animated feature by Halas and Batchelor, based on the popular book by George Orwell. It was the first British animated feature released worldwide, but it was not the first British animated feature ever made (that honour goes to Handling Ships, a stop motion instructional film for the Admiralty made in 1945). It can, however, be said to be the first British animated feature film on general release.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm_(1954_film)

Animal Farm
AVI | 512x384 | Divx3, 1230 kbit / sec | MPEG-1 Audio layer 3, 90 kbit/sec | 70 min | 800 MB
Audio: English, Russian | Subtitles: English, Polish, Portuguese, Hungarian

Britain's first animated feature, which, despite the title and Disney-esque animal animation, is in fact a no-holds-barred adaptation of George Orwell's classic satire on Stalinism, with the animals taking over their farm by means of a revolutionary coup, but then discovering that although all animals are supposed to be equal, some are more equal than others...

http://rapidshare.com/files/18694...al_Farm__1954___En__Ru_.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/18969...al_Farm__1954___En__Ru_.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/18979...al_Farm__1954___En__Ru_.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/18704...al_Farm__1954___En__Ru_.part4.rar

http://avaxhome.ws/video/Format/animation/Animal_Farm_1954.html

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AfroSamurai - 2007

Afro Samurai (アフロサムライ, Afuro Samurai?) is a Japanese dōjinshi manga series created by Takashi Okazaki, originally featured in the NOU NOU HAU[2] dōjin magazine. It was adapted into a 5-episode anime miniseries directed by Fuminori Kizaki and produced by Gonzo, a Japanese animation studio. The first episode was shown online on January 1, 2007 and premièred on Spike TV on January 4, 2007 at 11:00pm EST. The anime series has since gone on to air in the UK and the US, where it premiered on Adult Swim on May 4,2007[3], and Japan, where it was broadcast on Fuji Television. It also premiered on MTV in Australia in August 2007.[4] The anime series features noted American actor Samuel L. Jackson as the voice of the titular character and his sidekick, as well as one of the co-producers, and also features Ron Perlman and Kelly Hu as character voices. Wu-Tang Clan member RZA produced the original hip hop musical score,[5] which was released on compact disc by Koch Records on January 30, 2007 in both uncut and edited versions. The series was also licensed for North American distribution by Funimation, who released two versions: a SpikeTV version and an unrated director's cut on DVD and Blu-ray Disc. Both DVD versions were released on May 22, 2007 with the Blu-ray Disc version being released on August 26 of the following year. In the United Kingdom, a Bravo Numbered Limited Edition, equivalent to the US Spike TV edition and featuring the same red themed artwork was released on 2 July 2007. A Directors’ Cut Edition Box Set, featuring new artwork, was released later on 12 October 2007. A second Bravo edition featuring artwork similar to the UK Director’s Cut was released on 21 March 2008. A Blu-ray disc version has been released in North America. In August 2005, Japan-based game developers Namco announced they would be releasing Afro Samurai related video games.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro_Samurai

AfroSamurai [2007]
DVDrip | English | DivX 5 572x312 23.98fps 801Kbps | MP3 48kHz stereo 96Kbps | 00:26:14 | 170MB
Creator: Takashi Okazaki

Afro Samurai (Samuel L. Jackson) is the story of a Black samurai in a futuristic yet feudal Japan who is on a mission to avenge the wrongful death of his father. Afro is a warrior who travels a solitary path encountering a myriad of enemies, friends, and challenges beyond imagination.

[Director's Cut] episode 1/5
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[Director's Cut] episode 2/5
http://avaxhome.ws/video/Format/animation/AfroSamuraiepisode.html

[Director's Cut] episode 3/5
http://avaxhome.ws/video/genre/adventures/AfroSamuraiepisodethree.html

[Director's Cut] episode 4/5
http://avaxhome.ws/video/genre/adventures/AfroSamuraiepisodeFour.html

[Director's Cut] episode 5/5
http://avaxhome.ws/video/Format/animation/AfroSamuraiepisodefive.html

CD cut
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Afro Samurai: Resurrection - 2009

Afro Samurai: Resurrection is a 2009 film sequel to the 2007 Afro Samurai anime; the movie was shown on Spike TV, on January 25, 2009. American actor Samuel L. Jackson returns as the voice for Afro and Ninja-Ninja, while this time he is joined by Lucy Liu who voices Afros' enemy Sio, Mark Hamill also joins as the voice of Sio's protector and henchman Bin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro_Samurai:_Resurrection

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=24M4VD14

http://software-movie.com/movie/a...0p-bluray-x264-classic-4-mirrors/

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Human Contraptions (2002)

Academy Award winning animator of Leisure (1976) and political cartoonist Bruce Petty takes a satirical look at the “contraptions” that shape our lives.

Human Contraptions is a 10-episode, animated series which has screened to great acclaim at festivals in France, Italy, Spain, Malaysia, Portugal and Australia.

Education, sex, finance, globalism, art, media, medicine, law, government and even the brain are all transformed by Petty into evolving machines.

Beginning with a simple concept, Petty takes us through history as each apparatus builds to its complex contemporary form. In the wry, ironic style that is his hallmark, Petty reveals these to be contraptions of a very human kind — imperfect, sometimes unpredictable and always subject to change. It is a witty, provocative and entertaining series, narrated by Andrew Denton.

Says Petty: "The challenge with Human Contraptions was to imagine what could be said about massive subjects in five minutes of animation. I wanted the series to be a cheerful reminder that, as our cars, videos and toasters get smarter and cheaper, the institutions we really need are getting more expensive and unreliable — and are starting to rattle."

http://avaxhome.ws/video/Format/animation/human_contraptions.html

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My Neighbor Totoro - 1988

My Neighbor Totoro (となりのトトロ, Tonari no Totoro?), is a 1988 Japanese anime film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli. The film follows the two young daughters of a professor and their interactions with friendly wood spirits in postwar rural Japan. The movie won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize in 1988. The movie was originally released in the U.S. in VHS format with the title, My Friend Totoro.[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Neighbor_Totoro
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096283/

How can I describe the inexplicable power of My Neighbor Totoro, Hayao Miyazaki’s timeless, ageless family film? It is like how childhood memories feel, if you had a happy childhood — wide-eyed and blissful, matter-of-factly magical and entrancingly prosaic, a world with discovery lurking around every corner and an inexhaustible universe in one’s backyard.

It is both familiar and strange, at once universally human and culturally specific. Images and themes inspired by Alice in Wonderland have been filtered through sensibilities reflecting Japan’s animist heritage and given a surreal imaginative twist that is uniquely Miyazaki.

One might say there is there is something dreamlike about the adventures (if such nearly plotless proceedings can be described as “adventures”) of young Satsuki and her kid sister Mei, who arrive with their father in a new house somewhere in the rural Japanese countryside, a stunningly idyllic landscape of rice paddies, tree-shaded forest

http://www.decentfilms.com/sections/reviews/myneighbortotoro.html

disney dub is far superior than fox

http://www.da-anime.info/index.ph...sk=view&id=1007&Itemid=29
http://movieseyes.blogspot.com/2007/12/my-neighbor-totoro-1988.html

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Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind - 1984

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (風の谷のナウシカ, Kaze no Tani no Naushika?) is a 1984 film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, based on his manga of the same name. The movie has environmentalist undertones and was presented by the World Wide Fund for Nature when it was released in 1984. Nausicaä is ranked as one of the 50 greatest science fiction films by the Internet Movie Database.[1] While created before Studio Ghibli was founded, the film is considered to be the beginning of the studio.[2] It is often included as part of the Studio's works, including the Studio Ghibli Collection of DVDs.

The movie won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize in 1984.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausica%C3%A4_of_the_Valley_of_the_Wind
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087544/

It comes as no surprise that the Japanese animation mastermind once again conjures up an entirely believable world that is just a side-step away from our own and as his films and ideas have progressed he has become more and more adept at intertwining reality with fantasy. Despite the outlandish ideas and imagery present in Nausicaa there's never really a need to suspend disbelief and unlike some of his peers, Miyazaki's magical lands are utterly convincing with no need for extensive exposition.
http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=12908

http://www.da-anime.info/index.ph...ask=view&id=252&Itemid=29
http://www.phimhongkong.com/f/showpost.php?p=633963&postcount=153