Subgenre Sampler
Anime: 203 Films to Buy & Rent
Professional: Golgo 13, The (1983)
- Classic anime stylishly relays the underworld movements of a legendary hitman and his contract killings. Based on a long–running manga, with an…
Mysterious Cities of Gold, The (TV Series) (Taiyô no ko Esteban) (1982-1983)
- Richly detailed 80's kids anime series centred on a young boy on a worldwide quest to discover his true identity via the Seven Cities of Gold. A…
Space Adventure Cobra (1982)
- Dir. Osamu Dezaki
- Space opera at its soapiest – a rouge intergalactic criminal thwarts alien pirates, saves the universe, and gets the ladies in this retro anime…
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…