Curated category
Japanese animated science fiction films
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (film)One thousand years after the Seven Days of Fire, a vast forest swarms with giant mutant insects. The air carries poison that kills any human who breathes it…
- Macross: Do You Remember Love?The film premiered in Japanese theaters on the 7th of July 1984. It was a reinterpretation of episodes two through twenty-seven of the Super Dimension…
- Dead LeavesHiroyuki Imaishi directed the 2004 Japanese animated science fiction film Dead Leaves. Production I.G created the animation while Manga Entertainment handled…
- Ghost in the Shell (1995 film)Mamoru Oshii originally wanted to direct Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade after he finished Patlabor 2: The Movie in 1993. He proposed the project to Bandai Visual…
- Akira (1988 film)Katsuhiro Otomo agreed to adapt his manga into an animated film only after securing a guarantee of total creative control.
- Final Fantasy VII: Advent ChildrenIn the ruins of Midgar, a grey wolf howls at the sky. Cloud Strife stands alone in the rain that falls after a long battle.
- Final Fantasy: The Spirits WithinSquare Pictures spent four years building a custom render farm in Hawaii to create Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. This facility housed 960 Pentium…
- Royal Space Force: The Wings of HonnêamiseIn September 1984, Hiroyuki Yamaga and Toshio Okada stood before Shigeru Watanabe of Bandai to pitch a project that would become Royal Space Force.