Directed by Satoshi Kon • 2001 • Japan
Starring Miyoko Shoji, Mami Koyama, Fumiko Orikasa

When the legendary Ginei Studios shuts down, filmmaker Genya Tachibana and his assistant are tasked with interviewing its reclusive star, Chiyoko Fujiwara, who retired from the spotlight thirty years earlie...

Directed by Mamoru Oshii • 1995 • Japan, United Kingdom
Starring Atsuko Tanaka, Akio Otsuka, Iemasa Kayumi

2029: A female cybernetic government agent, Major Motoko Kusanagi, and the Internal Bureau of Investigations are hot on the trail of the Puppet Master, a mysterious and threatening computer...

Directed by Takeshi Koike • 2009 • Japan
Starring Takuya Kimura, Yu Aoi, Tadanobu Asano

This eyeball-blasting optical joyride takes animation to new heights of high-octane delirium. On the military-controlled planet of Roboworld, the Redline—held every five years—is the most dangerous and thrill...

Directed by Satoshi Kon • 2006 • Japan
Starring Megumi Hayashibara, Toru Furuya, Koichi Yamadera

The final feature directed by anime legend Satoshi Kon is a dizzying, dazzling tour through the unconscious that takes the genre to new heights of giddy imagination. Atsuko is a psychiatrist who has ...

Directed by t.o.L • 2002 • Japan
Starring Hisayo Mochizuki, Shinji Takeda, Béatrice Dalle

Arguably the only anime ever made inspired by both Hello Kitty and Thomas Pynchon’s “The Crying of Lot 49,” TAMALA 2010: A PUNK CAT IN SPACE is a futuristic fever dream that flows back and forth in time, fo...