Masterpieces of anime films. Full-length anime films

Not everyone likes serial anime. The plot, drawn out over dozens of episodes, allows you to pass the time well, but very often a large number of episodes affects the quality of the drawing and creates a lot of unnecessary dialogue and additional, completely uninteresting plot branches. Another thing is the list of the best full-length anime, which are more reminiscent of a quality movie rather than a Latin American series. No, no one underestimates the importance of multi-episode anime, as it might seem at first glance. But fans of feature films are sometimes confused by the described shortcomings. This list of the best full-length anime is a collection of excellent animated films of all time. Among them there are wonderful full-length films for both children and adults and the whole family.

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
In the future, humanity, which has recklessly exploited nature for centuries, has fallen victim to its pride. A terrible thing has befallen the earth environmental disaster, once thriving industrial civilizations turned to dust, and the surface of the planet was covered by a gigantic sea of ​​Forest, emitting poisonous spores of its plants into the atmosphere. The surviving people have to live in the shadow of the Forest and its monstrous insect-like inhabitants, trying to prevent the spread of harmful vegetation.

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind / Kaze no tani no Naushika (1984)

Genre: anime, cartoon, science fiction, fantasy, drama
Premiere (world): March 11, 1984
Country: Japan

Starring: Sumi Shimamoto, Mahito Tsujimura, Hisako Kyoda, Goro Naya, Ikiro Nagai, Kohei Miyauchi, Joji Yanami, Minoru Yada, Rihoko Yoshida, Masako Sugaya

Laputa Castle in the Sky (1986)
Brief summary of the animated film "Laputa Castle in the Sky". An alternative reality corresponding to the beginning of the 20th century. In the hands of a girl named Sita is the Flying Stone. Government agents and pirates are hunting for him because the Stone is of great value. Trying to escape from her pursuers, Sita meets Pazu, her peer, working in a mining town. Together, the children discover that the Stone is the key to the mysterious floating island of Lapute...

Laputa Castle in the Sky / Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta (1986)

Genre: anime, cartoon, science fiction, fantasy, adventure, family
Premiere (world): August 2, 1986
Premiere (Russian Federation): February 28, 2008, “RUSCICO”
Country: Japan

Starring: Anna Paquin, James Van Der Beek, Cloris Leachman, Mark Hamill, Richard A. Dysart, Jim Cummings, John Hostetter, Michael McShane, Mandy Patinkin, Andy Dick

My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
Japan, fifties of the last century. Having moved to the village, two little sisters Satsuki (the eldest) and Mei (the younger) discovered an extraordinary, wonderful world deep inside a tree, inhabited by Totoro, charming furry creatures, with whom the girls immediately struck up a friendship. Some of them are big, others are very tiny, but they all have a huge, kind heart and magical abilities to do extraordinary things, like flying over mountains or growing a huge tree.

My Neighbor Totoro / Tonari no Totoro (1988)

Genre:
Premiere (world): April 16, 1988
Premiere (Russian Federation): March 20, 2008, “RUSCICO”
Country: Japan

Starring: Toshiyuki Amagasa, Brianne Brosey, Paul Butcher, Pat Carroll, Cheryl Chase, Shigeru Chiba, Lara Cody, Natalie Core, Tim Daly, Dakota Fanning

Witch's Delivery Service (1989)
Brief summary of the animated film "The Witch's Delivery Service." The young witch Kiki, upon reaching the age of 13, must live among people for a certain time. Kiki, along with her cat Gigi, goes to the city, where she meets a kind baker who helps her start her own business - Emergency Delivery Service. Kiki's work introduces her to many different people and provides the opportunity to make new friends and perform a lot of all kinds of pranks.

Witch's Delivery Service / Majo no takkyûbin (1989)

Genre: anime, cartoon, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family
Budget:¥800,000,000
Premiere (world): July 29, 1989
Premiere (Russian Federation): October 2, 2008, “RUSCICO”
Country: Japan

Starring: Minami Takayama, Rei Sakuma, Kappei Yamaguchi, Keiko Toda, Mieko Nobusawa, Koichi Miura, Haruko Kato, Hiroko Seki, Yuriko Futizaki, Koichi Yamadera

Porco Rosso (1992)
Adriatic, twenties of the last century. Italian pilot Marco Pagott fought bravely during the First World War. However, after the war, he became disillusioned with military affairs, himself and people, turning into a real pig. In the late twenties, when the fascists led by Mussolini came to power in Italy, Marco, who called himself Porco Rosso (Crimson Pig), began working as a hired rescuer in the skies of the Adriatic. His seaplane terrifies air pirates.

Porco Rosso / Kurenai no buta (1992)

Genre: anime, cartoon, fantasy, melodrama, adventure
Premiere (world): July 18, 1992
Premiere (Russian Federation): December 25, 2008, “RUSCICO”
Country: Japan

Starring: Shuichiro Moriyama, Tokiko Kato, Sanshi Katsura, Tsunehiko Kamijou, Akemi Okamura, Akio Yutsuka, Hiroko Seki, Osamu Saka, Mahito Tsujimura, Minoru Yada

Princess Mononoke (1997)
The young prince Ashitaka, having killed a boar, brought upon himself killing curse. The old healer predicted to him that only he himself is capable of changing his destiny. And the brave warrior set off on a dangerous journey. So he found himself in a mysterious country where people, led by the evil Lady Eboshi, fought with the inhabitants of the forest: spirits, demons and giant creatures that Ashitaka had never seen before. And with them was Princess Mononoke, the mistress of the beasts and the daughter of the she-wolf.

Princess Mononoke / Mononoke-hime (1997)

Genre: anime, cartoon, fantasy, drama, adventure
Budget:¥2,400,000,000
Premiere (world): July 12, 1997
Premiere (Russian Federation): June 24, 2010, “RUSCICO”
Country: Japan

Starring: Yuriko Ishida, Billy Crudup, Billy Bob Thornton, Minnie Driver, John DiMaggio, Claire Danes, John DeMita, Jada Pinkett Smith, Gillian Anderson, Keith David

Spirited Away (2001)
Little Chihiro and her mom and dad are moving to new home. Getting lost along the way, they find themselves in a strange deserted city, where a magnificent feast awaits them. The parents greedily pounce on the food and, to the horror of the girls, they turn into pigs, becoming prisoners of the evil sorceress Yubaba, the ruler of the mysterious world of ancient gods and powerful spirits. Now, finding herself alone among magical creatures and mysterious visions, brave Chihiro must figure out how to free her parents from the spell.

Spirited Away / Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)

Genre: anime, cartoon, fantasy, adventure, family
Budget:¥1,900,000,000
Premiere (world): July 20, 2001
Premiere (Russian Federation): December 31, 2002, "Central Partnership"
Country: Japan

Starring: Rumi Hiragi, Irino Miyu, Mari Natsuki, Takashi Naito, Yasuko Sawaguchi, Tatsuya Gashuin, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Yumi Tamai, Yo Oizumi, Koba Hayashi

Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
The film takes place in parallel world Europe at the end of the 19th century, where magic goes hand in hand with technical progress. The modest life of the early orphaned hatter Sophie changed completely when the moving castle of the mysterious wizard Howl, known for his “kidnappings” of girls’ hearts, appeared in the vicinity of her city. Saved by this handsome man from the advances of two soldiers, she fell in love with him at first sight. However, an exciting walk with him cost the young hatmaker her beauty and youth.

Howl's Moving Castle / Hauru no ugoku shiro (2004)

Genre: anime, cartoon, science fiction, fantasy, melodrama, adventure
Premiere (world): September 5, 2004
Premiere (Russian Federation): August 25, 2005, "Central Partnership"
Country: Japan

Starring: Chieko Baisho, Takuya Kimura, Akihiro Miwa, Tatsuya Gashuin, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Mitsunori Isaki, Yo Oizumi, Akio Yutsuka, Daijiro Harada, Haruko Kato

Ponyo on a Cliff (2008)
Five-year-old boy Sosuke lives in a house on a cliff by the ocean with his energetic mother. One day he catches a red fish with a suspiciously human face in the ocean, puts it in a bucket and names it Ponyo. A shaggy middle-aged gentleman in a striped suit crawls out of the ocean and takes Ponyo back to the underwater kingdom - it turns out that this is one of his daughters. People liked Ponyo and decided to turn into a girl. Dad is against it, but the daughter is stubborn.

Ponyo the fish on the cliff / Gake no ue no Ponyo (2008)

Genre: anime, cartoon, adventure, family
Budget:¥3,400,000,000
Premiere (world): July 19, 2008
Premiere (Russian Federation): September 3, 2009, “RUSCICO”
Country: Japan

Starring: Tomoko Yamaguchi, Kazushige Nagashima, Yuki Amami, Joji Tokoro, Yuria Nara, Hiroki Doi, Rumi Hiragi, Akiko Yano, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Tomoko Naraoka

The Wind Rises (2013)
The boy Jiro dreams of flying and beautiful airplanes that can outrun the wind. But he won’t become a pilot - he’s been nearsighted since birth. But Jiro does not give up on his dream of the sky, he begins to invent the ideal aircraft and over time becomes one of the best aircraft designers in the world. On the path to success, he will not only meet many interesting people, will survive the Great Tokyo Earthquake and brutal wars, but will also find the love of his life - the beautiful Naoko.

The wind is getting stronger / Kaze tachinu (2013)

Genre: anime, cartoon, drama, biography
Premiere (world): July 20, 2013
Premiere (Russian Federation): February 20, 2014, “Central Partnership”, “All Media”
Country: Japan

Starring: Hideaki Anno, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Miori Takimoto, Masahiko Nishimura, Mansai Nomura, Morio Kazama, Jun Kunimura, Mirai Shida, Keiko Takeshita, Shinobu Otake

Prince of the North (1968)
Cold winds blew towards distant northern villages. Unprecedented misfortunes devastate human settlements one after another. Ghost wolves, ice mammoths and treacherous werewolves bring death to all living things... And even battle-hardened warriors cannot resist the powerful witchcraft of the demon Grunwald, who wants to subjugate this harsh region. Into this time of troubles, in one of the villages a brave boy, Hols, appears with a mysterious sword, whose name is Sunny.

Prince of the North / Taiyou no ouji Horusu no daibouken (1968)

Genre: anime, cartoon, fantasy, action, drama, adventure, family
Premiere (world): July 21, 1968
Country: Japan

Starring: Yukari Asai, Mikijiro Hira, Etsuko Ichihara, Hiroshi Kamiyama, Gil Mack, Masao Mishima, Corina Orr, Ray Owens, Eijiro Tono, Billy Lou Watt

3000 Leagues in Search of Mother (TV series) (1976)
The action takes place in late XIX century. A boy named Marco lives with his family in the port of Genoa (Italy). His father, Pietro Rossi, is a doctor who devotes all his time to treating poor patients. One day, due to mistakes, the father falls into large debts and therefore the family begins to experience enormous financial difficulties. Due to such problems, Marco's mother, Anna Rossi, has to go to Argentina, where she is hired to work as a maid.

3000 Leagues in Search of Mother (TV series) / Haha wo tazunete sanzenri (1976)

Genre: anime, cartoon, drama, adventure, family
Premiere (world): January 4, 1976
Country: Japan

Starring: Yoshiko Matsuo, Sogabe Kazuyuki, Yukiko Nikaido, Kiyoshi Kawakubo, Ikiro Nagai, Noriko Ohara, Mieko Nobusawa, Takuzo Kamiyama, Sachiko Chijimatsu, Keiko Yokozawa

Bully Tie (1981)
Fifth-grader Tie has no time to slog through her homework; she has more important things to worry about. She needs to run a family business - run a small tavern and snack bar (fry kebabs, pour sake, wash dishes, accept payments and check balances), and also look after her father, an over-aged slob who only likes to make idiotic bets, play cards and bones, and bully the local yakuza. Tie's mother was tired of such a life long ago and left; but Tie is strong, Tie can handle it...

Hooligan Chie / Jarinko Chie (1981)

Genre:
Premiere (world): February 9, 2005
Country: Japan

Starring: Chinatsu Nakayama, Norio Nishikawa, Kiyoshi Nishikawa, Yasushi Yokoyama, Shinsuke Shimada, Ryusuke Matsumoto, Utako Kyo, Keisuke Ootori, Gannosuke Asia, Kyoko Mitsubayashi

Cellist Goshu (1982)
Brief summary of the animated musical film "Celloist Goshu". The anime's storyline tells the story of a young cellist, Goshu, who is crazy about Beethoven, but he is not yet good enough at playing to please his comrades. To big concert There are ten days left, and he is still not ready, although he is training hard. And so, every evening animals begin to come to him, who will help Goshu learn to play, listening to his heart...

Cellist Goshu / Sero hiki no Gôshu (1982)

Genre: anime, cartoon, fantasy, music
Premiere (world): January 23, 1982
Country: Japan

Starring: Hideki Sasaki, Fuyumi Shiraishi, Masashi Amenomori, Junji Chiba, Koichi Hashimoto, Kaneta Kimotuski, Atsuko Mine, Ryuji Saikachi, Kazue Takahashi, Akiko Takamura

Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
The last days of the Second World War. American aircraft bomb defenseless Japanese cities. 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko find themselves caught in the whirlpool of people's everyday nightmare. Having suffered the most bitter loss - the loss of loved ones, they were left completely alone. A young boy becomes an adult overnight when faced with the cruelty of the world. He realizes that his little sister's life depends on him. Taking refuge in an abandoned shelter, Seita and Setsuko try to survive, relying only on their own strength.

Grave of the Fireflies / Hotaru no haka (1988)

Genre: anime, cartoon, drama, military
Premiere (world): April 16, 1988
Country: Japan

Starring: Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Yoshiko Shinohara, Akemi Yamaguchi, Shannon Conley, Crispin Freeman, Dan Green, Amy Jones, George Leaver, Corina Orr

Just Yesterday (1991)
Brief summary of the animated film "Yesterday". While relaxing, Taeko unexpectedly discovers that she is remembering the times when she was little and went to school back in 1966. The film constantly jumps back and forth between the two time periods with nostalgia and beautiful mountain scenery as Taeko sorts through her memories and tries to make difficult decisions about her future...

Just Yesterday / Omohide poro poro (1991)

Genre:
Premiere (world): July 20, 1991
Premiere (Russian Federation): May 8, 2008, “RUSCICO”
Country: Japan

Starring: Miki Imai, Toshiro Yanagiba, Yoko Honna, Mayumi Iizuka, Masahiro Ito, Chie Kitagawa, Yoshimasa Kondo, Yuki Masuda, Yuki Minowa, Issey Takahashi

Tanuki War in the Heisei and Pompoko Periods (1994)
The film takes place in modern Japan. People are persistently expanding their holdings, taking land from nature and cutting down forests. In the hills near southern Tokyo, they are gradually depriving the people of tanuki - raccoon werewolf dogs - of their habitat. They are desperately trying to save their home and send messengers to the great masters of magic, asking them for help. Young werewolves actively practice the art of transformation.

Tanuki War during the Heisei and Pompoko periods / Heisei tanuki gassen pompoko (1994)

Genre: anime, cartoon, fantasy, drama, comedy
Premiere (world): July 16, 1994
Country: Japan

Starring: Shincho Kokontei, Makoto Nonomura, Yuriko Ishida, Norihei Miki, Nijiko Kiyokawa, Shigeru Izumiya, Gannosuke Asia, Takehiro Murata, Beito Katsura, Sanshi Katsura

Our Neighbors Yamada (1999)
The film consists of a series short stories dedicated to everyday life Yamada family. Grandmother, mother, father, son and daughter are the most ordinary people, with recognizable features and habits. Despite the fact that the film reflects many Japanese realities, from food to fairy tales, these stories are understandable to any viewer. Comedy situations are interspersed with examples of worldly wisdom, everyday scenes are replaced by fantasies, something happens for the first time, something is repeated day after day.

Our Yamada Neighbors / Houhokekyo tonari no Yamada-kun (1999)

Genre: anime, cartoon, comedy, family
Budget:¥2,000,000,000
Premiere (world): July 17, 1999
Country: Japan

Starring: Hayato Isohata, Masako Araki, Naomi Uno, Toru Masuoka, Yukiji Asaoka, Akiko Yano, Kosanji Yanagiya, James Belushi, Jeff Bennett, Alex Buck

The Tale of Princess Kaguya (2013)
Bamboo cutter Miyatsuko finds a creature on one of the stems that looks like a tiny princess. Miyatsuko and his wife adopt a girl, who immediately becomes an ordinary-looking baby. However, their daughter, nicknamed Bamboo, surprises everyone with her rapid growth. She participates in the games of neighboring children, and her closest friend is a young man named Sutemaru. Meanwhile, Miyatsuko finds gold and expensive clothes in the bamboo stalks and realizes that she must make her daughter a princess.

The Tale of Princess Kaguya / Kaguyahime no monogatari (2013)

Genre: anime, cartoon
Premiere (world): November 23, 2013
Country: Japan

Starring: Chloe Grace Moretz, James Caan, Mary Steenburgen, Darren Criss, Lucy Liu, Beau Bridges, James Marsden, Oliver Platt, Hynden Walsh, Dean Cain

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I Can Hear the Sound of the Ocean (TV) (1993)
ostalgia is characteristic of a person, regardless of age, and student Taku Morisaki experienced this feeling when he remembered hometown and school. The guy comes home to meet family and friends and renew his memories. Childhood friend Matsuo was delighted to see Taku and was happy to meet him. The guys talked for a long time, remembering their school years and numerous comical situations. It came down to matters of the heart. Taku and Matsuo were in love with a girl, Rikako, who came to their city.

I Can Hear the Sound of the Ocean (TV) / Umi ga kikoeru (1993)

Genre: anime, cartoon, drama, melodrama
Premiere (world): May 5, 1993
Country: Japan

Starring: Tobita Nobuo, Toshihiko Seki, Yoko Sakamoto, Yuri Amano, Kae Araki, Unity Kanemaru, Ai Sato, Aya Hisakawa, Tomokazu Seki, Hikaru Midorikawa

Whisper of the Heart (1995)
Shizuko, a girl from, as they used to say, a reading family (her father is a librarian, her mother is working on a dissertation, her sister is a university student) loves most to read books and rewrite the lyrics of John Denver's songs for her soul. Using the local library's catalog, she discovers that a guy named Seiji has read all of her favorite books before she even knew about them. Having met him, Shizuko realizes that it’s time for her to decide on her future.

Whisper of the Heart / Mimi wo sumaseba (1995)

Genre: anime, cartoon, drama, melodrama
Premiere (world): July 15, 1995
Premiere (Russian Federation): January 22, 2009, “RUSCICO”
Country: Japan

Starring: Yoko Honna, Issey Takahashi, Takashi Tachibana, Shigeru Muroi, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Keiju Kobayashi, Yori Yamashita, Maiko Kayama, Yoshimi Nakojima, Minami Takayama

Return of the Cat (2002)
In the middle of the day on a busy street, young Haru bravely snatches an adorable cat from under the wheels of a truck. To her great surprise, the cat stands up on its hind legs and thanks Haru for human language. It turns out that in front of her is a prince from the mysterious Cat Kingdom, and now the powerful Cat King wants to marry him to the brave savior. Soon he kidnaps Haru, who does not want to be a cat princess at all, and only faithful mustachioed and tailed friends.

Return of the Cat / Neko no ongaeshi (2002)

Genre: anime, cartoon, fantasy, adventure, family
Premiere (world): July 19, 2002
Country: Japan

Starring: Chizuru Ikewaki, Yoshihiko Hakamada, Aki Maeda, Takayuki Yamada, Hitomi Sato, Kenta Satoi, Mari Hamada, Tetsu Watanabe, Yosuke Saito, Kumiko Okae

Tales from Earthsea (2006)
Mountains, caves and castles of a fairy-tale country, dragons and amulets, spells and prophecies, magicians and princes, priestesses and murderers, villains and righteous men - in the new adventure animated fantasy saga about magical world Earthsea. Earthsea is in danger, the world of magic is on the verge of extinction. The universal balance is disrupted: dragons living in the western limit of the fairy-tale country suddenly appear in the east in the domains of people. The Archmage Ged goes in search of the root cause of the trouble.

Tales from Earthsea / Gedo senki (2006)

Genre: anime, cartoon, fantasy, adventure
Premiere (world): July 29, 2006
Country: Japan

Starring: Junichi Okada, Aoi Teshima, Bunta Sugawara, Yuko Tanaka, Teruyuki Kagawa, Jan Fubuki, Takashi Naito, Mitsuko Baisho, Yui Natsukawa, Kaoru Kobayashi

Arrietty from the Land of Lilliputians (2010)
Funny dwarfs set up their modest homes in secret places hidden from human eyes: under the floor, between walls, in dense bushes. They call themselves breadwinners because they periodically borrow the things they need. The existence of the babies is kept in the strictest confidence, and the miners are strictly forbidden to give themselves away. But young Arrietty breaks the ban. She is discovered by 12-year-old Sho, who came to summer holidays to grandma. The boy honestly keeps the secret of the existence of a new acquaintance.

Arietti from the Land of Lilliputians / Kari-gurashi no Arietti (2010)

Genre: anime, cartoon, fantasy
Premiere (world): July 17, 2010
Premiere (Russian Federation): September 15, 2011, “Premium Film”
Country: Japan

Starring: Mirai Shida, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Moises Arias, Bridgit Mendler, David Henry, Will Arnett, Carol Burnett, Amy Poehler, Shinichi Hatori, Saoirse Ronan

From the Slopes of Kokuriko (2011)
The action takes place in 1963 near Yokohama. The heroine, Umi Matsuzaki, has a father, a ship commander, who dies during the Korean War 10 years ago, when she was still a little girl. While her mother is away, the girl has to take charge of the household, in particular, remember to raise the flags every morning - this is the rule her father set in order to see from the sea that he is expected at home. The town has a school club with various interest groups.

From the slopes of Kokuriko / Kokuriko-zaka kara (2011)

Genre: anime, cartoon, drama
Budget: $22 000 000
Premiere (world): July 16, 2011
Premiere (Russian Federation): October 18, 2012, “RUSCICO”
Country: Japan

Starring: Masami Nagasawa, Junichi Okada, Keiko Takeshita, Yuriko Ishida, Rumi Hiragi, Jan Fubuki, Takashi Naito, Shunsuke Kazama, Nao Omori, Teruyuki Kagawa

Akira (1988)
31 years after the Third World War and the nuclear bombing of the capital of Japan, it was recreated new city- New Tokyo. Outwardly, everything is under control, however, the organization of the country now resembles a pro-fascist state, in the most brutal way overwhelming attempts at rebellion. In research centers, parapsychological experiments are carried out on people to develop the perfect type of weapon. The military, represented by Colonel Shikishima, head of the biological military experiments project.

Akira (1988)

Genre: anime, cartoon, fantasy, action, thriller, detective
Budget:¥1,100,000,000
Premiere (world): July 16, 1988
Country: Japan

Starring: Iwata Mitsuo, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Tessho Genda, Hiroshi Otake, Koichi Kitamura, Michihiro Ikemitsu, Yuriko Futizaki, Masaaki Okura, Taro Arakawa

Memories of the Future (1995)
The events of the three short stories take place in the near future, which may not exist... The actions of the first episode take viewers to 2092 in undivided outer space. The crew of the ship "Crown" is busy cleaning up space debris, but is forced to face the supernatural. Dead men stand in the way of the astronauts... The hero of the second story, lighter and more humorous, is an ordinary guy who accidentally swallowed the wrong pill... The third story tells about life in the city.

Memories of the future / Memor&icirс;zu (1995)

Genre: anime, cartoon, science fiction, fantasy, thriller
Premiere (world): December 23, 1995
Country: Japan

Starring: Shigeru Chiba, Hisao Egawa, Kayoko Fujii, Nubaki Fukuda, Emi Hasegawa, Isamu Hayashi, Yu Hayashi, Michio Hazama, Masato Hirano, Hideuki Hori

Steamboy (2004)
XIX century, England. Young inventor Ray Steam receives a package from his grandfather, a famous scientist. The parcel contains a mysterious “steam ball”, a unique mechanism, which is being hunted by the influential O'Hara Foundation. Escaping the foundation's bloodhounds, the boy ends up in London, which is preparing for the magnificent holding of the World's Fair. Few people can imagine that soon dramatic events will turn the holiday triumph of technology in an industrial nightmare. Will Rey be able to save a priceless invention from the tenacious clutches of villains?

Steamboy / Such&icirс;mubôi (2004)

Genre: anime, cartoon, fantasy, action, thriller, adventure
Budget: $22 000 000
Premiere (world): July 17, 2004
Country: Japan

Starring: Anne Suzuki, Masane Tsukayama, Katsuo Nakamura, Manami Konishi, Kiyoshi Kodama, Ikki Sawamura, Susumu Terajima, Osamu Saka, Keiko Aizawa, Rosalind Ayres

Beyond the Clouds (2007)
According to an alternative version of history, after defeat in World War II, Japan found itself divided between its allies - the northern island of Hokkaido annexed Soviet Union, and Honshu and other southern islands were captured by the Americans. In the summer of 1996, the Soviets began building a mysterious structure in their occupation zone - a tower of such gigantic proportions that three fellow high school students from the American Honshu, walking together during school holidays, could clearly see its outline.

Beyond the Clouds / Atrás das Nuvens (2007)

Starring: Nicolau Breiner, Ruben Silva, Sofia Grilo, Carmen Santos, Jose Eduardo, Graciano Diaz, Jose Pinto

5 Centimeters Per Second (2007)
The animated film consists of three parts united by one storyline. The first part is an excerpt about cherry blossoms. Due to the current circumstances best friends- Takaki Tono and his girlfriend Akari Shinohara - should break up immediately after primary school. There are ten kilometers of distance between them and communication through numerous letters. And then one day Tanaki decides to go see her. The second part - Cosmonaut. Tanaka High School on Tanegashima Island.

5 centimeters per second / Byôsoku 5 senchimêtoru (2007)

Genre: anime, cartoon, drama, melodrama
Budget:¥25,000,000
Premiere (world): March 3, 2007
Country: Japan

Starring: Kenji Mizuhashi, Yoshimi Kondo, Satomi Hanamura, Ayaka Onoe, Risa Mizuno, Yuka Terazaki, Yuko Nakamura, Masami Iwasaki, Ray Kondo, Hiroshi Shimozaki

Catchers of Forgotten Voices (2011)
Brief summary of the animated film. The amazing sounds that are sometimes heard on the radio are the most interesting thing in the life of schoolgirl Asuna. Shadows of another world, so distant and so inaccessible... But what lies behind the mysterious signals, similar to a strange song - serenity or anxiety? And what to do when the moment of salvation turns you face to mortal danger, which cannot be overcome by the forces of the only one who is on your side in this other world?

Genre: anime, cartoon, drama, adventure
Premiere (world): May 7, 2011
Premiere (Russian Federation): November 17, 2011, "Reanimedia"
Country: Japan

Starring: Hilary Haag, Corey Hartzog, Leraldo Anzaldua, David Matranga, Shelley Carlin-Black, Shannon Emerick, Sam Roman, Emily Nevez, Brittney Karbowski, George Manley

Garden elegant words (2013)
Brief summary of the animated film "The Garden of Fine Words." A young man named Takao meets a mysterious young woman. Their random and seemingly pointless meetings in the park, where Takao is playing truant while working towards his strange dream of devoting his life to designing and making shoes, are repeated again and again... although only on rainy days. The heroes' hearts begin to open slightly to each other, but this takes time, and the end of the rainy season is already looming ahead...

The Garden of Beautiful Words / Koto no ha no niwa (2013)

Genre: anime, cartoon, melodrama
Premiere (world): May 31, 2013
Premiere (Russian Federation): September 27, 2013, "Reanimedia"
Country: Japan

Starring: Irino Miyu, Kana Hanazawa, Fumi Hirano, Gou Maeda, Takeshi Maeda, Yuka Terasaki, Takanori Hoshino, Suguru Inoe, Megumi Han, Mikako Komatsu

Angel's Egg (1985)
The plot of "Angel's Egg" is not easy to put into words. This anime is more about form than content; here they prefer innuendo to direct revelations. The philosophy of the film is emphasized by the strange, gloomy graphics and rare dialogues of the characters, which do not clarify what is happening, but are even more confusing. In "Angel's Egg" there are only two main characters - a little girl who cannot part with a mysterious egg, and a man who carries a strange cross with him. Viewers are left to think for themselves...

Angel's Egg / Tenshi no tamago (1985)

Genre: anime, cartoon, horror, science fiction, fantasy, drama, detective
Premiere (world): December 25, 1985
Country: Japan

Starring: Mako Hayodo, Jinpachi Nezu, Keiichi Noda

Ghost in the Shell (1995)
2029 Borders between states have completely collapsed, thanks to the ubiquity of computer networks and cyber technologies. When a long-sought hacker known as "The Puppet Master" begins interfering in politics, the Department of Public Security's "9th Section", a group of cybernetically enhanced police officers, is tasked with finding and stopping the hacker. But during the investigation, the question arises: who is the “Puppeteer”...

Ghost in the Shell / Kôkaku Kidôtai (1995)

Genre: anime, cartoon, science fiction, fantasy, action, thriller
Budget:¥600,000,000
Premiere (world): November 18, 1995
Country: Japan

Starring: Atsuko Tanaka, Akio Yutsuka, Koichi Yamadera, Yutaka Nakano, Tamio Oki, Tessho Genda, Namaki Masakazu, Masato Yamanouchi, Shinji Ogawa, Mitsuru Miyamoto

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)
Near future, 2032. Technology has achieved unprecedented progress. This is a world that humans share with cyborgs and robots. Bateau is a detective in the counter-terrorism police department. He is a living cyborg, equipped with artificial arms, legs and other body parts. All that remained was his old brain and the memory of her, of Motoko Kusanagi. Together with his partner Togusa, Bato is involved in the investigation of a series of murders by robots of their owners, all of which belong to an experimental model of sex androids.

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)

Genre: anime, cartoon, science fiction, fantasy, action, thriller, drama
Premiere (world): March 6, 2004
Country: Japan

Starring: Akio Yutsuka, Atsuko Tanaka, Koichi Yamadera, Tamio Oki, Yutaka Nakano, Naoto Takenaka, Gou Aoba, Eisuke Asakura, Robert Axelrod, Laura Bailey

Heavenly Slugs (2008)
“Every generation has its own war,” said Mao Zedong, who not in vain studied ancient Chinese treatises in his youth. Only fear makes people appreciate peaceful life, only the knowledge that someone is constantly fighting and dying there. This truth was well understood in the alternative world, the development of which stopped at the level of the middle of our 20th century. War has turned from horror and curse into business and craft, and the levers of control have shifted to transnational corporations.

Heavenly Slugs / Sukai kurora (2008)

Genre: anime, cartoon, action, drama, adventure
Premiere (world): August 2, 2008
Country: Japan

Starring: Rinko Kikuchi, Ryo Kase, Shosuke Tanihara, Megumi Yamaguchi, Daisuke Hirakawa, Takewaka Takuma, Mugihito, Hohu Yutsuka, Mabuki Ando, ​​Mako Hayodo

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006)
Eccentric schoolgirl Makoto Konno discovers an amazing ability: she can travel back in time and manipulate time. The sensible girl does not waste her new talent and tries to change herself. better side. She begins to correct her school grades and establish difficult personal relationships with her peers. Very soon Makoto realizes that this wonderful gift was not given to her by chance. She tries to breathe hope into the people near and dear to her and make them happy.

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time / Toki o kakeru shôjo (2006)

Genre: anime, cartoon, fantasy, drama, melodrama, comedy
Premiere (world): July 15, 2006
Country: Japan

Starring: Riisa Naka, Takuya Ishida, Mitsutaka Itakura, Ayami Kakiuchi, Mitsuki Tanimura, Yuki Sekido, Yutawaka Katsura, Midori Ando, ​​Fumihiko Tachiki, Keiko Yamamoto

Summer Wars (2009)
Gifted high school student Koiso Kenji accepts an invitation from a girl to visit her family. If only he knew how it would all end. First, he suddenly has to play the role of this girl's boyfriend in front of her relatives. Then his account for the land of Oz is stolen (a kind of virtual reality in which they not only play and have fun, but also conduct quite serious matters, such as buying goods and doing business). Further events grow like a snowball.

Summer Wars / Samâ uôzu (2009)

Genre: anime, cartoon, fantasy, comedy, adventure
Premiere (world): August 1, 2009
Premiere (Russian Federation): November 1, 2012, "Reanimedia"
Country: Japan

Starring: Ryunosuke Kamiki, Nanami Sakuraba, Mitsuki Tanimura, Takahiro Yokokawa, Mieko Nobusawa, Mitsumi Sasaki, Takashi Kobayashi, Yoji Tanaka, Kiyomi Tanigawa, Hasiya Nakamura

Wolf Children Ame and Yuki (2012)
Brief summary of the Japanese animated film "The Wolf Children of Ame and Yuki." The main characters of the anime film - Yuki and Ame - are seemingly ordinary children who should not care about the hardships of the world around them. When their father, the last representative of an ancient family of werewolves, dies, their mother - an ordinary girl who once fell in love with a man who turned out to be a wolf - has to move away from big city and start all over again.

Wolf Children of Ame and Yuki / Ookami kodomo no Ame to Yuki (2012)

Genre: anime, cartoon, fantasy
Premiere (world): June 25, 2012
Premiere (Russian Federation): November 1, 2012, "Reanimedia"
Country: Japan

Starring: Aoi Miyazaki, Takao Osawa, Haru Kuroki, Yukito Nishii, Momoka Ono, Amon Kabe, Takuma Hiraoka, Megumi Hayashibara, Tadashi Nakamura, Tamio Oki

Anime as a film genre recent years is very common and is loved by a wide audience of viewers. At first glance, the characters in anime films look like cartoon characters, but watching the plot for a few minutes makes it clear that anime movies Intended for mature viewers. The majority of viewers of such films are teenagers and older people. Like simple films Where people play roles, anime films are very diverse. There are both anime consisting of one episode and anime series. There are many anime series shown on television that have captured the hearts of millions of viewers. Anime also differs in the versatility of its genres.

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Anime movies is an immediate genre of cinematography that is becoming more popular and famous every day. Typically, full-length anime films were invented and developed in Japan, several decades ago. Immediately after its creation, anime films quickly gained popularity and fame not only in Japan, but also in other countries. Asian countries. Over time, anime began to be popularized as Western America, and Eurasia.

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Currently, anime is the most popular animation genre in the world. Animated films are popular with children, teenagers and adults. World classics of literature have been filmed in this style and films for the adult segment have been produced. Today there are about 17 thousand films in the anime genre in the world. Japan was the first to produce such films, and the very first animated film was created almost 100 years ago. The best full-length anime are collected in the following list.

10th place: “Transformers”

• Year: 1986.
• Genre: Adventure, fantasy, action.
• The film lasts: 85 minutes.
• Director: Nelson Sheen.
• Rating: 8.5.

The top 10 best full-length anime opens with the animated film “Transformers”. Created in 1986, it continues the film series released in 1984-1985.

The inhabitants of the Earth have discovered a strange and dangerous planet in space - Unicron, devouring any celestial body that gets in its way. At this time, there is a war between Autobots and Decepticons on Earth. The Autobots manage to oust their enemies, but on the planet Cybertron things are different: here the Decepticons have seized power. The Autobots have settled on the Earth's satellites and are preparing for an offensive.

At this time, Unicron appeared on the horizon. Over time, it turned out that Unicron is not a planet at all, but a giant intelligent mechanism...

9th place: "Stein's Gate: Deja Vu Loading Zone"

• Year: 2013.
• Genre: Thriller, fantasy.
• The film lasts: 1 hour 30 minutes.
• Director: Hiroshi Hamasaki, Takuya Sato.
• Rating: 8.64.

The story is about a guy who invented timelines, but by constantly thinking about it, he gradually lost his connection with real life. His girlfriend, who has been away from the country for a year, arrives in Japan. She is tormented by incomprehensible fragments of memories of her boyfriend. Thanks to this feeling of déjà vu, the girl tries to bring back her lover from an unreal life.

8th place: “Gurren Lagann: Starlight”

• Year: 2009.
• Genre: Space, fantasy, action.
• The film lasts: 2 hours 5 minutes.
• Director: Hiroyuki Imaishi, Masahiko Otsuka.
• Rating: 8.66.

After the overthrow of the Spiral King, humanity finally breathed a sigh of relief. People completely regained control over their home planet, rebuilt cities and learned to fly into space thanks to the restoration of the lost technologies of their ancient ancestors. Soon the world population will reach one million people. But Simmon and Rossiu remember Lorgenome's dying prophecy: when the number of people reaches 1 million, there will be a terrible disaster. In this disaster main role Luna will play. To solve the mystery, an unmanned probe is sent to the Moon...

7th place: “Border of the Void”

• Year: 2008.
• Genre: Drama, Romance, Action, Supernatural.
• The film lasts: 1 hour 54 minutes.
• Director: Takayuki Hirao.
• Rating: 8.71.

One day, Ryogi Shiki helps a guy named Enjo Tomoe hide from assassins. Unexpectedly, the girl finds herself in the very center of dangerous and amazing adventures.

6th place: Howl's Moving Castle

• Year: 2004.
• Genre: Fantasy, drama, romance, adventure.
• The film lasts: 1 hour 57 minutes.
• Director: Hayao Miyazaki.
• Rating: 8.74.

In the top list of the best anime cartoons, Howl's Moving Castle takes sixth place. This is the story of eighteen-year-old hatmaker Sophie, a quiet and modest girl who leads an ordinary life. But one day, Howl's Moving Castle appeared in the city. His master is an evil sorcerer who steals girls' hearts.

5th place: “Princess Mononoke”

• Year: 1997.
• Genre: Fantasy, action, adventure.
• The film lasts: 2 hours 10 minutes.
• Director: Hayao Miyazaki.
• Rating: 8.81.

The top best full-length anime includes the film “Princess Mononoke”. The action takes place in medieval Japan, in one of the small mountain villages. One day, the villagers were attacked by a huge boar demon, who was obsessed with hatred. To save the village, the son of the leader Ashitake kills a terrible animal, but during the battle the boar inflicts a wound on the guy, through which a curse is instilled in Ashitaka.

4th place: “Wolf cubs Ame and Yuki”

• Year: 2012.
• Genre: Fantasy.
• The film lasts: 1 hour 57 minutes.
• Director: Mamoru Hosoda.
• Rating: 8.86.

In fourth place in the “Best Anime Feature Films” ranking is the film “Ame’s Cubs from Yuki.” This is a story about the mutual love of parents and children. Hannah falls in love with a guy who turns out to be a werewolf. The werewolf marries the girl and soon she gives birth to two children. After some time, the werewolf husband dies, and Hannah, wanting to hide her children from other people, moves from the metropolis to a small rural town.

3rd place

• Year: 2010.
• Genre: Supernatural, fantasy, school, detective, romance.
• The film lasts: 2 hours 42 minutes.
• Director: Noriko Takao, Yasuhiro Takemoto, Tatsuya Ishihara.
• Rating: 8.88.

Third place in the category “Best Full-Length Anime” is taken by the film “The Disappearance of Haruhi Sujimiya”. In mid-December, Sudzimiya, who is the head of the SOS brigade, reports that the brigade will celebrate Christmas evening together in one of the club’s premises. All members of the brigade begin preparations for the holiday.

But a few days later, very strange events begin to happen to Sujimiya and those around her...

2nd place

• Year: 2001.
• Genre: Supernatural, adventure, drama.
• The film lasts: 2 hours 05 minutes.
• Director: Kitaro Kosaka, Hayao Miyazaki.
• Rating: 8.93.

The list of the best anime cartoons continues with the film “Spirited Away” about a ten-year-old girl, Chihiro Yugino, who moves to a new house with her mother and father. While moving, the heroes got confused on the road and ended up in a fairytale forest, whose owner is the evil witch Yubaba. She turned the girl's parents into pigs and now the daughter needs to save her relatives.

1st place

• Year: 2013.
• Genre: Comedy, adventure.
• The film lasts: 110 minutes.
• Director: Fujita Yoichi.
• Rating: 9.12.

The list of the best anime full-length films is headed by the film “Stein's Gate”, which takes an honorable first place in the top. If you're thinking about it, this feature should definitely be on your list. Its plot is as follows: in the future, where Gintoki unexpectedly finds himself, the planet is affected by an incurable virus, so many people have left the Earth. Those who remain have to fight an unequal battle with the virus in order to survive. Gintoki meets his former Yorozuya partners and tries to conduct his own investigation to understand how the virus got to Earth and whether everything can be fixed.

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Makoto Shinkai is an animator, director and screenwriter. He prefers to work alone, making do with minimal resources. He drew his first cartoons without any help on his home computer. Shinkai has been called “the second Miyazaki” more than once for his high-quality and detailed pictures, but the artist himself is too modest to agree with this.

Your name

• Fantasy, drama, melodrama.
• Japan, 2016.
• Duration: 110 min.
• IMDb: 8.5.

Mitsuha is a high school student from a small town hidden in the mountains. She dreams of growing up quickly and moving to a noisy metropolis. Taki is an ordinary guy living in the center of Tokyo. They have never known each other and have never met anywhere, but an unusual connection still exists between them. In their dreams, Taki and Mitsuha switch bodies and gain the ability to live each other's lives. At first they perceive it as a fun game, but over time everything becomes much more complicated.

Garden of beautiful words

• Melodrama.
• Japan, 2013.
• Duration: 46 min.
• IMDb: 7.6.

Takao wants to dedicate his life to making shoes, so he regularly escapes from boring school classes to a Japanese kindergarten to calmly draw sketches. One day he meets a mysterious woman, Yukio, who only goes out for walks when it rains. Takao falls in love with her, but the rainy season is coming to an end and it is unknown whether they will ever see each other again.

Catchers of Forgotten Voices

• Drama, adventure.
• Japan, 2011.
• Duration: 116 min.
• IMDb: 7.3.

The girl Asuna lives in a small Japanese village. She has very few friends, so she spends most evenings on the hillside, listening to an old radio using a magic crystal. One day, on the way to the hill, the girl is attacked by a strange creature, from which the young man Xiong saves her. After this incident, a friendship develops between them, but suddenly Shun dies tragically, and Asuna goes on a risky journey.

5 centimeters per second

• Drama, melodrama.
• Japan, 2007.
• Duration: 63 min.
• IMDb: 7.8.

Three beautiful and sad stories about love, time and distance, organically connected into one well-drawn cartoon with an amazing soundtrack. They are about the life and growing up of the main character Takaki Tono and his attempts to support.

Mamoru Hosoda

Mamoru Hosoda is a director and screenwriter of animated films. He made his first film in high school, while still just a boy. In many interviews, Hosoda says that life experience often serves as the basis and incentive for new scripts for his films. That is why the director has so many works dedicated to family, the process of growing up and developing a personality.

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

• Science fiction, drama, melodrama, comedy.
• Japan, 2006.
• Duration: 98 min.
• IMDb: 7.8.

After surviving a terrible accident, seventeen-year-old Makoto suddenly discovers that she has the ability to travel through time. Inspired by an extraordinary gift, she begins to do her best to improve her life, returning to the past over and over again to fix something. But it soon becomes clear that time travel is not a gift at all, but simply the action of a special device that belongs to the boy Chiaki, who arrived from the future.

Child of the monster

• Fantasy, adventure.
• Japan, 2015.
• Duration: 119 min.
• IMDb: 7.7.

The story of a homeless orphan boy, Kiyuta, and the bear man, Kumatetsu. A boy and a monster live in different worlds, which should not intersect, but what happens is that the inhabitants of the parallel universe take the orphan to themselves. Kiyuta becomes Kumatetsu's student and begins to learn various fighting tricks from him in order to prepare for the impending natural disaster.

Hiromasa Yonebayashi

Hiromasa Yonebayashi is considered the youngest director of animation studio Ghibli. In 2016, his feature film Memories of Marnie received an Oscar in the Best Animated Feature category.

Arrietty from the Land of Lilliputians

• Fantasy.
• Japan, 2010.
• Duration: 90 min.
• IMDb: 7.6.

Twelve-year-old Sho comes to stay at his aunt's ancient house and accidentally saves an unusual tiny girl named Arrietty from a cat. So he finds out that next door to ordinary people live the Lilliputian “miners” who try their best to keep their existence a secret. Despite all prohibitions, a friendship begins between Sho and Arrietty, but it does not last long.

Memories of Marnie

• Drama.
• Japan, 2014.
• Duration: 123 min.
• IMDb: 7.8.

Anna is an incredibly lonely girl who neither her adoptive parents nor anyone else can understand. Her only consolation is drawing. One day, during a lesson in the park, Anna experiences a severe asthma attack, after which her parents decide to send her to her relatives in a house on the coast for treatment. There she meets the mysterious Marnie, who after a while disappears somewhere.

Hayao Miyazaki

Hayao Miyazaki is the most famous Japanese animator director, writer, and one of the founders of the Ghibli animation studio. In his works he often pays attention to such complex topics as war, pacifism, environmental problems, man’s relationship to nature, and growing up.

Porco Rosso

• Fantasy, melodrama, adventure.
• Japan, 1992.
• Duration: 94 min.
• IMDb: 7.8.

A cartoon about a virtuoso pilot, Marco Pagotta, who became so disillusioned with people that he incurred a curse and became like a pig. After the fascists came to power in Italy, Marco began working for the state, protecting merchant ships from attacks by air pirates. They didn't like this very much, so they decided to eliminate Marco, forcing him to fight the real king of flights - ace pilot Curtis.

The wind is getting stronger

• Drama, biography, history.
• Japan, 2013.
• Duration: 126 min.
• IMDb: 7.8.

The extraordinary life story of Jiro Horikoshi, the man who designed Japanese fighter aircraft during World War II. According to Miyazaki, The Wind Rises is his only cartoon made for adults.

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

• Science fiction, fantasy, drama.
• Japan, USA, 1984.
• Duration: 112 min.
• IMDb: 8.1.

A terrible environmental disaster occurred on Earth: almost its entire surface was covered by a toxic sea. The only island of calm in this world remains only the Valley of the Winds - a serene kingdom where unusual girl Nausicaä and her wise father. This piece of paradise haunts residents of other surviving states who decide to fight for the remaining natural resources.

Goro Miyazaki

Goro Miyazaki - Japanese artist and director, son of the famous Hayao Miyazaki. Miyazaki's father was opposed to his son getting involved in directing, arguing that he did not yet have enough experience. But Goro still started working on his own animated series and has already released several independent works.

From the slopes of Kokuriko

• Drama.
• Japan, 2011.
• Duration: 91 min.
• IMDb: 7.4.

Since childhood, Umi has been accustomed to being independent and solving problems alone. She was not at a loss even at the moment when she had to go to Tokyo for an important meeting with the school’s sponsor in order to save the building from demolition. While all these events were happening, the girl did not even notice how unexpectedly it was.

Yoshifumi Kondo

Yoshifumi Kondo is a Japanese animator, designer and production director who worked at Studio Ghibli together with Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata. Unfortunately, Kondo died of an aneurysm, but left behind several magnificent works as a keepsake.

Whisper of the Heart

• Drama, melodrama.
• Japan, 1995.
• Duration: 111 min.
• IMDb: 8.0.

Shizuku loves books very much and tries to spend every free minute reading. She soon notices that all the books she borrows from the library have already been read by a certain Seiji Amasawa. Shizuku decides to find out who this mysterious stranger is, with whom her interests coincide so much, and to get to know him better.

Isao Takahata

Isao Takahata - director, screenwriter, producer, co-founder of Studio Ghibli. His works are wise, melancholic and largely realistic, so if you want to watch something dreamy and light, then choose something else from the list.

The Tale of Princess Kaguya

• Fantasy.
• Japan, 2013.
• Duration: 125 min.
• IMDb: 8.1.

Anime based on ancient folk Japanese fairy tale"The Tale of Old Man Taketori." One day, while walking through the forest, old man Taketori came across a strangely glowing stalk of bamboo. When he took a closer look, he discovered a tiny girl who would change his life forever.

Grave of the Fireflies

• Drama, military.
• Japan, 1988.
• Duration: 89 min.
• IMDb: 8.5.

An anime about the difficult and dramatic fate of two orphans who lost their parents during World War II and are now forced to survive in the cruel post-war world on their own.

Satoshi Kon

Japanese director Satoshi Kon is not very famous, but his work inspired such directors as and, and this already means something. In his films, the director likes to touch on various acute social problems.

Once upon a time in Tokyo

• Drama, comedy, adventure.
• Japan, 2003.
• Duration: 88 min.
• IMDb: 7.9.

Wandering the streets of Tokyo, three homeless beggars find an abandoned newborn baby on the street. Homeless people decide to help the little girl find her parents, no matter the cost.

Paprika

• Detective.
• Japan, 2006.
• Duration: 90 min.
• IMDb: 7.7.

In the near future, the DC Mini device was invented, allowing doctors to penetrate the dreams and fantasies of patients. It was not dangerous until it fell into the hands of attackers who, with its help, began to drive innocent people crazy.

Would you like to recommend something else? good anime, which is not in the selection? Welcome to the comments!