Subgenre Sampler
Anime: 200 Films to Buy & Rent
Voltron: Defender of the Universe (1981)
- A quintessential retro import by way of Japan that found its way onto afternoon TV screens in the eighties, this gleefully pre–empted POWER…
Castle of Cagliostro (1980)
- Dir. Hayao Miyazaki
- Ground–breaking animated feature from the director of PRINCESS MONONOKE holds its own in today's high–tech animation environment. Based…
Space Firebird 2772 (1980)
- Dir. Taku Sugiyama
- Futuristic Sci Fi anime conceived by the creator of ASTRO BOY sees a young cadet sent on a search to retrieve a mystical 'firebird', which may have…
Lupin the Third: Secret of Mamo (1978)
- Dir. Soji Yoshikawa
- The first in a popular series of films featuring "Lupin III" (based on the graphic novels by Monkey Punch), this nostalgically–styled manga…
Panda Go Panda (1972)
- Dir. Isao Takahata
- An early proto–Studio Ghibli kids flick (made as a 2–part TV special) features Hayao Miyazaki as writer and character designer and…
Speed Racer (TV Series) (1967)
- One of the most complex early anime series to be dubbed from Japanese into English, set around the comic adventures of driver Speed and his supercar,…
Gigantor (1965)
- Pioneering Japanese animation in which young Jimmy Sparks defends the Earth against marauding aliens using a... gigantic flying robot. An influence…
Kimba the White Lion (TV Series) (Janguru taitei) (1965-1967)
- A cutely effective animation series that combined American and Japanese production influences in its story of a white lion cub who strives to bring…
Experimental Films of Osamu Tezuka, The (1962-1988)
- Dir. Osamu Tezuka
- 13 rare experimental films from the godfather of Japanese manga and anime, Osamu Tezuka.
Films: Tales of the Street Corner, Male, Memory, Mermaid,…
Tokyo Babylon
- Four parts two tapes