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Japanese action films from the 1980s

83 films
101 trailers
3h 57m round
1980–1989
average 2:21

All 83

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    Castle in the Sky

    1986TMDB 8.0IMDb 8.0Trailer 1:433 trailers

    A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.

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    Akira

    1988TMDB 7.9IMDb 8.0Trailer 1:02

    A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.

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    Ran

    1985TMDB 8.0IMDb 8.2Trailer 1:042 trailers

    Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.

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    Kagemusha

    1980TMDB 7.8IMDb 7.9Trailer 3:29

    Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by competing clans. When Shingen dies, his generals reluctantly agree to have the im

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    Saint Seiya: Legend of Crimson Youth

    1988TMDB 7.8IMDb 7.2Trailer 1:16

    The Sun God Abel returns to life, bent on punishing the humans and cleansing Earth from their presence. When Athena joins him, leaving humans to their fate, the Bronze Saints must defend the world in their greatest battle yet.

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    Godzilla vs. Biollante

    1989TMDB 7.4IMDb 6.5Trailer 1:48

    After the previous Godzilla attack, a miniature arms race ensues to collect his cells. Concerned over Godzilla's possible return, the Japanese government uses the cells to create a new bio-weapon, ANEB (Anti-Nuclear Energy Bacteria). They s

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    Violent Cop

    1989TMDB 7.2IMDb 7.1Trailer 1:202 trailers

    A detective breaks all rules of ethical conduct while investigating a colleague’s involvement in drug pushing and yakuza activities.

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    Saint Seiya: The Heated Battle of the Gods

    1988TMDB 7.6IMDb 6.6Trailer 3:25

    Hyoga is missing somewhere in Asgard... When Seiya and the others are looking for him, Athena is kidnapped and they have to rescue her from Dolvar and some mysterious warriors.

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    Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone

    1989TMDB 6.9IMDb 6.7Trailer 1:012 trailers

    In order to wish for immortality and avenge his father, Garlic Jr. collects the dragon balls, kidnapping Goku's son Gohan in the process. Goku, Kami, Piccolo, and Krillin unite to rescue Gohan and save the world from being sucked into a dea

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    Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies

    1986TMDB 6.9IMDb 6.7Trailer 1:01

    The great King Gurumes is searching for the Dragon Balls in order to put a stop to his endless hunger. A young girl named Pansy who lives in the nearby village has had enough of the treachery and decides to seek Muten Rōshi for assistance.

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    Macross: Do You Remember Love?

    1984TMDB 7.3IMDb 7.6Trailer 2:23

    It is A.D. 2009 and the human race is caught in a war between giant humanoids, male Zentrans and female Meltrans. Returning from the edge of our solar system after making a space fold, the SDF-1 Macross makes the long journey back to Earth

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    Patlabor: The Movie

    1989TMDB 6.9IMDb 7.0Trailer 2:15

    A mysterious suicide and a series of unmanned robot run-aways sparks off a Police investigation into the suspicious software on-board thousands of industrial robots around Tokyo.

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    Godzilla 1985

    1985TMDB 6.8IMDb 6.1Trailer 1:202 trailers

    Originally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily re-edited, re-titled "Godzilla 1985". Adding in new footage of Raymond Burr, this 16th Godzilla film ignores all previous sequels and serves as a direct

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    Fist of the North Star

    1986TMDB 6.8IMDb 7.1Trailer 2:31

    After a nuclear holocaust tears the world apart, mankind is forced to the harshness of not only the oppression of others who are much more powerful, but the dead earth which seems to be getting worse with every passing moment. But a savior

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    Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space

    1982TMDB 7.4IMDb 7.5Trailer 3:38

    Amuro Ray and the rest of the White Base crew, now denominated the 13th Autonomous Corps, return to outer space to support the rest of the Earth Federation forces for the decisive battle against the Principality of Zeon's forces.

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    Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack

    1988TMDB 7.2IMDb 7.2Trailer 1:01

    In UC 0093, the Federation has recovered from its defeat and has created a new anti-colonial special forces unit to deal with rebel forces: Londo Bell. Elsewhere in space, Char Aznable reappears out of self-imposed hiding with a declaration

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    Mobile Suit Gundam II: Soldiers of Sorrow

    1981TMDB 7.2IMDb 7.1Trailer 3:31

    After surviving attacks by Zeon's Char Aznable and Garma Zabi, the crew of Federation warship White Base and its mobile suits must battle Zeon forces through Asia, Europe, and the Atlantic Ocean if they are to reach Earth Federation's headq

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    Sailor Suit and Machine Gun

    1981TMDB 7.1IMDb 6.3Trailer 1:292 trailers

    A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leadership.

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    Mobile Suit Gundam I

    1981TMDB 6.7IMDb 7.0Trailer 1:10

    In the year Universal Century 0079, humans have colonized the area of space lying in between the Earth and the moon. However, the ambitious Zabi family, rulers of the Duchy of Zeon, the grouping of colonies furthest from the earth, has spar

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    Dirty Pair: Project Eden

    1986TMDB 7.1IMDb 7.0Trailer 1:31

    Agerna is a planet rich in Vizorium, the one mineral necessary to space travel. When a series of mysterious attacks on mining operations has world leaders pointing fingers and pinning blame, 3WA naturally send in their top agents to investi

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    Space Runaway Ideon: Be Invoked

    1982TMDB 8.1IMDb 7.7Trailer 3:47

    The epic conclusion to the Ideon saga, featuring what was meant to be the final 5 episodes of the TV series. The Solo Ship and its crew continue their intense battle with the Buff Clan leading to a final battle that will determine the fate

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    Tomorrow's Joe 2: The Movie

    1981TMDB 7.6IMDb 7.5Trailer 2:26

    It has been six months since the tragic accident in Joe and Rikiishi's fight. Joe believes he has overcome Rikiishi's death and decides to make a comeback. Joe does make a successful comeback by scoring 5 KO's by body blows. Joe is then giv

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    Space Adventure Cobra

    1982TMDB 6.7IMDb 7.1Trailer 2:09

    Cobra, a notorious space pirate, is enlisted by bounty hunter Jane to rescue her sister from the strange being known as Crystal Bowie, but then finds himself drawn into a complex struggle over the fate of a mysterious wandering planet.

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    Venus Wars

    1989TMDB 6.7IMDb 6.6Trailer 1:12

    The new frontier of Venus has degenerated into a dystopia ravaged by the civil war between Ishtar and Aphrodia. Bubbly reporter Susan Sommers arrives in the capitol of Aphrodia just before it's captured by Ishtar. She falls in with a bunch

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    Shuffle

    1981TMDB 7.5IMDb 7.0Trailer 1:45

    Hiroshi Kobayashi is on the run from police who would arrest him for the murder of his girlfriend Naomi. At the same time, he wants revenge on the yakuza member Kimura who got her stuck in drugs. The entire film consists of a long hunting-s

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    Riki-Oh: The Wall of Hell

    1989TMDB 7.0IMDb 6.4Trailer 2:26

    In the late 1990s, society is descending into ecological collapse and totalitarianism. Saiga Riki-Oh, a mysterious man with a six-pointed star on his fist, finds himself at the privately-owned Tokyo State Prison. Serving a term of three yea

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    Project A-Ko

    1986TMDB 6.7IMDb 6.9Trailer 2:334 trailers

    Earth. The not too distant future. A city is miraculously reborn just sixteen years after being completely destroyed by a giant meteor. At the prestigious Graviton High School for Girls, two new students are introduced. A-ko and her ditzy sidekick, C-ko.

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    Be Forever Yamato

    1980TMDB 7.6IMDb 6.8Trailer 2:50

    The Black Nebula Empire attacks Earth and threatens to blow up the planet with a bomb they placed on Earth if counter attacked. Earths hopes rest on the Yamato crew as they go to the Black Nebula Planet and try to find a way to difuse the b

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    Dragon's Heaven

    1988TMDB 6.8IMDb 6.3Trailer 2:15

    A thousand years after the war that stopped the robot uprising, a human-allied mech awakens to find the battle rages on in Brazil. In the new world, he and his fresh-faced human operator launch a plan to confront his old archnemesis and bri

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    Shogun's Shadow

    1989TMDB 6.8IMDb 6.9Trailer 3:15

    A shogun's eldest son must do whatever it takes to survive a series of attempts on his life. He receives much-needed aid from seven warriors who are led by a strong leader.

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    GoShogun: The Time Étranger

    1985TMDB 7.0IMDb 6.9Trailer 1:07

    Forty years after the events of the TV series, Remy Shimada, ex-pilot of the GoShogun, suffers a terrible accident while on her way to a meeting with her former robot-piloting comrades. While they rush to the hospital, Remy floats between l

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    Ultraman Zoffy: Ultra Warriors vs. the Giant Monster Army

    1984TMDB 7.6IMDb 5.7Trailer 1:26

    Ultraman Zoffy explains to the audience about the history of the Ultra series alongside Pigmon, while having to fight off with various seijin foes.

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    Crusher Joe

    1983TMDB 6.7IMDb 7.0Trailer 2:22

    Enter the tale of the Crusher Council, a group of rugged individuals known for assignments ranging from transportation to terraforming and everything in between. In the early days of space exploration the Crushers took on the job of destroying asteroids and defining space lanes. Because of their work, they were nicknamed "Crushers" which eventually became their business moniker. Despite the rough and ready nature of the Crushers' work, they subscribe to a few steadfast rules. Unethical and illegal assignments are taboo, and any Crusher accepting one is barred from the Union. Of course, this presents problems for shady clients who try to trick the Crushers into accepting misleading assignments. They know that once the Union accepts a case the Crushers are honor-bound to follow it through. Among the various worlds, the Crusher Council has a stunning reputation, and among the Crushers, the

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    Queen Millennia

    1982TMDB 6.7IMDb 7.3Trailer 4:00

    The planet LaMetal is on a collision (and conquering) course with the Earth, and the only one who can stop the forthcoming catastrophe is Queen Millennia, a former princess of LaMetal who has made Earth her home.

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    Windaria

    1986TMDB 6.5IMDb 7.0Trailer 3:332 trailers

    In a land filled with magic and mystery, two rival kingdoms are readying for war: Isa, the beautiful water-laden city, and Paro, the industrialized wasteland. Windaria follows the tale of two sets of lovers: Marin and Izu, a young pair of f

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    Cyber Ninja

    1988TMDB 6.6IMDb 6.3Trailer 1:14

    In a futuristic version of medieval Japan, a band of swordsmen battles an evil warlord and his mechanical army of ninjas, and are aided by a mysterious heroic cyborg ninja, Shiranui.

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    Ultraman Story

    1984TMDB 6.6IMDb 6.4Trailer 2:00

    The film centers around Ultraman Taro growing up, and wanting to join the Ultra Brothers in battle. His family, however, thinks he is too young. Taro eventually proves himself after saving the 5 Ultra Brothers from the evil Grand King, crea

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    Roaring Fire

    1981TMDB 6.5IMDb 6.5Trailer 1:22

    On his death bed the man who raised Joji reveals that he is not his real father and that Joji’s real parents died tragically in a plane crash. Shortly thereafter Joji goes to Japan is search of his sister and his twin brother Toru. Joji’s quickly finds his sister Chihiro who is now blind and lives with their uncle. Joji one evening accidently over hears his uncle who has ties to the criminal underworld discussing his various illegal operations. Joji ‘s eavesdropping is discovered by his uncle who offers him a chance to join the organization. Joji promptly turns his uncle’s offer down which immediately puts his life in danger.

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    Sure Death

    1984TMDB 6.5IMDb 5.5Trailer 4:41

    A group of seemingly ordinary merchants is really a band of assassins for hire. When they discover that all the assassins in Edo are being killed they must act quickly to find the culprit.

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    Lupin the Third: Bye Bye, Lady Liberty

    1989TMDB 6.4IMDb 6.5Trailer 2:52

    Foiled repeatedly by the predictions of Interpol's supercomputer, Lupin has settled down. His partner Jigen asks him to pull one last heist: recover the Super Egg, a massive diamond hidden somewhere inside the Statue of Liberty.

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    Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally

    1989TMDB 6.4IMDb 7.0Trailer 2:20

    Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he's caught in the middle of a power struggle between two rival Yakuza clans, his reputation as a deadly defender

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    The Five Star Stories

    1989TMDB 6.4IMDb 6.1Trailer 1:35

    Among the 5 star systems known as the Joker Systems, there are many kingdoms. There are knights within the kingdoms and these knights who control giant robots, Mortar Heads, are called Headliners. Bound to the knights are fatimas. Human in

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    Cybernetics Guardian

    1989TMDB 6.4IMDb 5.3Trailer 4:58

    A freak accident unleashes a demonic spirit within researcher John Stalker - transforming him into Saldo, a mythical cyber-beast fueled by hate and evil.

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    Techno Police 21C

    1982TMDB 6.3IMDb 6.2Trailer 2:07

    The year is 2001 and the criminals have taken over Centinel City. The Police have lost control. The citizens are terrified... and no one can stop the madness. Even the Techno Police, a special anti-crime squad, find the situation hopeless until a wise cracking cop with an uncanny knack for out-guessing the criminals joins the force. When a powerful experiment tank is hijacked, the Techno Police and their newest recruit go to work. Equipped with an ultra-sonic car and crime-fighting Technoids, the rookie cop sets out on a death defying high-speed chase through the streets... trying to capture the crooks and trying to stay alive. But no one is aware of the awesome powers about to be unleashed.

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    Kamen Rider Super-1: The Movie

    1981TMDB 6.2IMDb 5.4Trailer 1:03

    The Dogma Kingdom attacks the Matagi (mountain tribe) village of Yamabiko to steal the sacred Flying Dragon Fortress and wreak havoc all over Japan. Six children from the fallen village take refuge in a nearby town, keeping their identities as Matagi citizens a secret. Kamen Rider Super-1 must protect these children from the Dogma Kingdom, as they hold the secret to the Flying Dragon Fortress' weakness.

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    Death Shadows

    1986TMDB 6.3IMDb 6.1Trailer 2:11

    Three men sentenced to death are spared and changed into “shadows executioners”, a group of ruthless ninja working for mysterious high ranking officials. During their investigation on some illegal business, one of them, called “Yazuke the V

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    Shogun's Ninja

    1980TMDB 6.3IMDb 6.0Trailer 1:30

    In the middle of the 16th century, Hideyoshi, a power hungry warlord sets out to destroy the Momochi clan. He sends his war commander in search of the clan's hidden gold only to find that two daggers are the key to the hiding place of the treasured gold. Spanning decades, the quest for the missing daggers takes Shiranui through war and ancient tradition.

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    Toward the Terra

    1980TMDB 6.3IMDb 6.4Trailer 1:36

    A young boy learns he is part of a powerful race of psionic humans who must fight the normal humans determined to keep them from Earth.

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    A Time Slip of 10,000 Years: Prime Rose

    1983TMDB 6.1IMDb 5.9Trailer 1:33

    A powerful entity known as Death Mask hurls Kujukuri City, Japan, and Dallas, Texas 10,000 years into the future, reshaping them into a ruthless battleground where only the strongest survive. Determined to shatter this tyrant's hold on time itself, Gai Tanbara ventures into the dystopian future. Along the way, he meets Emiya, a fierce warrior fighting to reclaim her city from the darkness. Together, they confront the horrors of a shattered world and the sinister forces threatening the fate of humanity!

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    The New Morning of Billy the Kid

    1986TMDB 6.1IMDb 5.8Trailer 2:08

    All the protagonists move about in a Tokyo Bar that has an entire wall taken up with a black-and-white reproduction of a photo of Monument Valley. The action starts as Billy the Kid, in full living color, walks out of the photo and gets a job as a waiter. Along with him on the working staff are a samurai straight out of the history books, a G.I. from World War II, and several other anachronistic characters. The plot (as such) revolves around keeping away the brutal mobsters and thugs who dominate the city streets outside of the bar, making the tavern safe for its easily recognized facsimiles of well-known characters.

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    Burst City

    1982TMDB 6.3IMDb 6.0Trailer 1:29

    Set in a barren, futuristic Tokyo of highways and wastelands, a rowdy group of punk bands and their fans gather to protest slow, boring, Japanese living.

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    Crystal Triangle: The Forbidden Revelation

    1987TMDB 6.1IMDb 5.9Trailer 2:43

    In times of olde, God gave mankind the ten commandments, and a message that has been lost to the centuries. In the present, Koichiro Kamishiro is a modern day Indiana Jones who scours (and often destroys) ruins for hints of the past, until one day he runs across a box filled with two crystal triangles. Having inadvertently run across the key to God's lost message, Kamishiro suddenly has a lot to deal with including assassination attempts by the KGB and the CIA, aliens hell-bent on destroying the Earth and the love of several women!

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    Attack of the Super Monsters

    1983TMDB 5.8IMDb 3.9Trailer 1:44

    In the near future it's discovered that the dinosaurs did not die off, but instead live on near the center of the Earth. The evil lord Tyrannus uses the mutated dinosaurs descendents to attack Earth in his effort to rule the world. Can Gemini Force, a group of four superpowered teens who've pledged to protect the Earth, stop his plans? Written by Mike Konczewski 70 millions years ago, the creatures known as dinosaurs mysteriously disappeared from planet Earth. Until now, it was assumed they were extinct. In reality, they had burrowed deep into the Earth and evolved into supermonsters. In the year 2000, the people from planet Earth were amazed and terrified by the greatest catastrophe ever known to mankind: the re-appearance of the dinosaurs. Under the direction of their emperor, Tyrannus, the creatures now seek to destroy mankind.

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    Future War 198X

    1982TMDB 6.0IMDb 6.3Trailer 2:38

    An American scientist constructs a laser satellite with hopes of preventing any nuclear conflicts from occurring. However, after a fatal error from both the US and the USSR governments, war breaks out and humanity faces a new bloodshed.

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    Arion

    1986TMDB 6.2IMDb 6.5Trailer 2:31

    The story follows Arion, a young man kidnapped by Hades as a child and raised to believe that his mother was blinded by Zeus and that killing the ruler of Mount Olympus will cure her.

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    Empire of Kids

    1981TMDB 5.0IMDb 6.1Trailer 3:01

    Following a stint in reform school, Ryu (Shinsuke Shimada) returns to his home, the Minami area of Osaka, accompanied by his new friend Ko (Takeshi Masu). He's greeted by his friends, Chabo (Ryusuke Matsumoto) and Ken (Bang-ho Cho). They seek to forge their own path through a multitude of rival gangs in Kita and Minami, including the Hokushin Alliance, backed by the yakuza, the Hope Association, and various other minor factions, including Zainichi Korean groups. What follows is a wild, fast-paced story of violence, revenge, betrayal, and discrimination, that never loses its sense of humor.

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    Urusei Yatsura: The Final Chapter

    1988TMDB 5.9IMDb 7.0Trailer 1:11

    It seems that Lum's grandfather made an agreement that should he have a daughter, she would be married to a traveling merchant that he met. Now, the merchant has come to collect due. Ataru is tricked into thinking that Lum wants to leave, a

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    Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01

    1987TMDB 6.1IMDb 5.8Trailer 2:07

    Ace female test pilot Kusomoto Elle humiliates macho tank driver Lt. Kilgore in the first demonstration of the advanced personal battle tank, the MADOX. Kilgore vows revenge, and gets his chance when the army rather carelessly loses the pro

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    Grey: Digital Target

    1986TMDB 4.8IMDb 6.5Trailer 1:02

    Grey is a laconic trooper in a rough, futuristic military system which rewards success in battle with high pay and promotions, but only three precent of troopers live long enough for the final goal - citizenship, and the chance for a life above the misery of most of the populace. Grey has managed to keep coming back alive, even earning the nickname Grey Death, but is the society he's fought for worth it

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    The Beast to Die

    1980TMDB 5.7IMDb 6.9Trailer 1:242 trailers

    A policeman is murdered and his gun, stolen, used to commit the next crime. Detective Kashiwagi, who is leading the investigation, learns that the author of the killings "walks like a dead man".

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    Love City

    1986TMDB 5.7IMDb 5.8Trailer 1:48

    In a dystopic and futuristic Tokyo, humanity’s genetic code has gone awry. At the forefront of the technology is Fraud, an organization conducting experiments on people such as Kei and Ai – two escaped “headmeters” with hefty psychokinetic

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    The Dagger of Kamui

    1985TMDB 5.8IMDb 6.9Trailer 2:382 trailers

    A young boy named Jiro finds his mother and sister murdered in his home. Falsely accused of the crime, he flees from his village and meets a priest named Tenkai, who has him kill a rogue ninja named Tarouza. After fulfilling that task, Jiro undergoes training to become a master assassin. Many years later, Jiro finds out that he was an orphan and his real father was Tarouza, who had worked for Tenkai until he aborted his mission when he fell in love with an Ainu woman. The young ninja discovers that the Shogunate was to retrieve the lost treasure of Captain Kidd and use it to once again isolate Japan from the rest of the world. Using the clues that Tarouza had kept secret, Jiro - along with the female ninja Oyuki and a slave named Sam - travels to Russia and America to search for the treasure in hopes of using it to extract revenge from Tenkai.

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    Ninja Wars

    1982TMDB 5.6IMDb 5.8Trailer 1:482 trailers

    A fortuneteller prophesizes that whoever marries the beautiful Ukio will become the ruler of the world. Naturally, this makes her very popular with those vying for power, particularly the insatiably greedy Lord Donjo. Only the ninja Jotaro

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    Legend of the Eight Samurai

    1983TMDB 5.8IMDb 6.4Trailer 1:55

    The evil Hikita clan rises from the dead to fulfill a curse on the Satomi clan by restoring the face of their warlord by using the skin of Princess Shizu. In the process of trying to capture her, the clan murders her entire family, but Prin

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    Samurai Reincarnation

    1981TMDB 5.9IMDb 6.6Trailer 1:553 trailers

    After surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for ignoring the pleas of believers. He sells his soul to Satan and receives the power to resurrect the dead to join him in a murderous rampage.

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    Battle Royale High School

    1987TMDB 4.8IMDb 6.0Trailer 3:58

    When the school Karate club's star fighter quits and decides to go pro, he unwittingly fulfills an ancient interdimensional prophecy and becomes demon king of his dimension. Soon his high school becomes a battleground for demon slaying samu

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    M.D. Geist

    1986TMDB 5.0IMDb 5.4Trailer 4:202 trailers

    Geist (the main character) is MD-02, a Most Dangerous Soldier, genetically engineered to function as a killing machine, but every one of the MDS units went homicidally insane. As a result Geist was placed in suspended animation in a stasis pod orbiting the planet Jerra until it crashed several years later, awakening him and bringing him into another war on the planet.

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    Demon City Shinjuku

    1988TMDB 6.0IMDb 6.3Trailer 2:22

    Ten Years ago, Genichiro Izayoi died trying to stop the sorcerer Rebi Ra, and as a result Shinjuku became a playground for demons. And now, the day approaches when Rebi Ra will complete his decade-long ritual to plunge the rest of the world

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    Urotsukidōji: Legend of the Overfiend

    1989TMDB 6.0IMDb 6.3Trailer 2:44

    Legend has it that the human race is not the only dominant civilization living on Earth. Two other races exist in this world: the Makai (a demon race) and the Jujinkai (a half-man, half-beast race). Once every 3,000 years, a supreme being k

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    Gunhed

    1989TMDB 4.8IMDb 5.3Trailer 1:51

    High-concept Sci-Fi adventure about an island that actually is a computer called Kyron 5, itself created to design and manufacture super-advanced robots to be used as slaves for the rest of the world. One day Kyron decides that human beings

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    Gamera Super Monster

    1980TMDB 5.0IMDb 3.6Trailer 2:37

    As a massive alien craft heads to Earth to do evil, three good and powerful superwomen befriend a young boy who has a special connection to Gamera. The alien Zanon launches a battery of familiar foes against Gamera, who might have to give

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    Sure Death! 3

    1986Trailer 6:12

    Third movie in the Hissatsu (Sure Death!) Series. Chasing the killer of a lawman, a group of assassins fall foul of a group of blackmarket financiers who dispatch their own hitmen to dispose of them.

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    God Bless Dancougar

    1987Trailer 2:02

    After destroying the Zorbados Empire, the Jyusenki-tai/Cyber Beast Force has expanded and are training new recruits. But after failing to stop a monster that seems to be a remnant of the Zorbados Empire from destroying a city, the CBF is thrown in jail. Now the CBF have to escape from jail and find out what was behind the monster they fought.

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    Big Magnum Kuroiwa

    1985IMDb 5.7Trailer 3:08

    Kuroiwa, a high school teacher who carries a “Big Magnum 44” gun is sent to a school that is full of violence. Can Kuroiwa reform the students with the gun?

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    Sure Death! Brown, You Bounder!

    1985IMDb 6.1Trailer 5:08

    When the Shogunates greatest secret is stolen, the fate of the nation hangs in the balance. The Shogunate sends an incompetent cop, Tanaka, to Kyoto to act as a stalking horse. Hoping the thieves will kill Tanaka and the Ninja Spies will kill the thieves. But what the Shogunate doesn't realise is that Tanaka's even more incompetent assistant Mondo is in fact the leader of a gang of revengers for hire, there motto is "Sure Death" (or your money cheerfully refunded). Mondo doesn't know that everyone knows about the secret, but they all think he does. Poor Mondo, he not only has to deal with crazed Shogunate extremists, oddball ninjas, crooks who work for the Emperor and bicycle riding foreign death squads. He also have to deal with a wife and a crazy mother-in-law!

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    The Moon Mask Rider

    1981IMDb 6.1Trailer 1:59

    The Moon Mask Rider is a tokusatsu movie produced by Purumie International/Herald Enterprises and distributed by Nippon Herald Pictures, was released theatrically on March 14, 1981. Considered Japan's answer to the American box-office fiasco, The Legend of the Lone Ranger (released the same year), this updated version of the Moonlight Mask legend bombed at the Japanese box-office. Daisuke Kuwahara (who, like Klinton Spilsbury , disappeared from doing films) plays George Owara (Moon Mask Rider's new alter-ego), and the rest of the cast made up of veteran action starlets: Sue Shihomi, Daijiro Harada and Takayuki Godai.

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    The Blazing Valiant

    1981IMDb 5.8Trailer 4:23

    Jo has just come back to Japan for the funeral of his parents, who were killed in tribal warfare in Africa where the family had been living throughout most of Jo's life. Once the funeral was over, he missed the boat that was going to take him back home, and, because of an altered itinerary, he ends up stopping in a town for awhile -- striking up an acquaintance with a teenager and her grandfather when he captures their runaway horse. He would have been glad to leave after the proper amenities were completed, but the girl's journalist brother is murdered -- he was getting too close to wrapping a major news story. At that point, Jo and a friend cannot easily drop the matter as though nothing had occurred, and the two start to track down the source of the trouble -- a factory that makes poison gas for Third World buyers. Now their task is to dismantle the operation, prevent one train shipme

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    South to the Horizon

    1986Trailer 3:002 trailers

    Tetsu gets into an argument with some Okinawa yakuza and is murdered by them. His brother Ryo comes to Okinawa shortly thereafter and teams up with Tetsu's girlfriend and Max an ex US soldier to extract revenge.

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    The Last Hero

    1982IMDb 6.2Trailer 2:33

    The 8th All-Japan Road Race Championship. The internationally ranked A-level SUGO circuit is on the edge of its seat as the 500 cc final draws near. Akio Kitano and Keishi Ooki face off: private team versus factory team. In the final lap, Akio is overtaken by Ooki and loses by a hair. The reason for his defeat? The difference between their two machines. With their scores tied, the two wait for the next match to settle the score for good.

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    Revolver

    1988IMDb 6.5Trailer 3:09

    When a gun belonging to a police officer is stolen, it ends up in the hands of a student, who decides to use it on a yakuza who beat him recently. Now the police officer is hot on the student’s trail, and he’s determined to prevent the gun from going off.

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    Fossilized Wilderness

    1982IMDb 4.7Trailer 2:04

    Detective Nishina Sosuke, the director of the Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation Division 1, is suddenly attacked by a trio of men at his apartment at midnight. When he regains consciousness, the corpse of a foreigner shot with his pistol lies in front of him. Nishina, with the help of his friend and newspaper reporter Mineshima, who believes in his innocence and vows to cooperate, pursues the incident and reveals a conspiracy related with 5,000 kilograms of gold that disappeared at the end of the WW2.

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    Wind. 1′40″

    1985Trailer 1:41

    Impressionistic silent short film (also known as ‘Kaze. Ippun yonjûbyô’) created by 17-year-old high school student Shinozuka Tsutomu. The animation, which won the Debut Prize at the inaugural Hiroshima International Animation Festival in 1985, shows a group of samurai racing at breathtaking speed across golden meadows. The film stands out for its visceral sense of motion and extraordinary dynamism, as has been confirmed by jury member Kawamoto Kihachirō, who noted that you can almost feel the force of the wind. The focus on ‘wind’, speed and warriors elegantly evokes a famous military maxim by Sun Tzu: ‘Your swiftness shall resemble the wind’. It is the first of four tenets of Fūrinkazan (風林火山, lit. ‘Wind, Forest, Fire, Mountain’), a legendary Japanese battle standard drawn from Sun Tzu’s ‘The Art of War’. Warriors should also be ‘as calm and orderly as forests, as fierce as fire, and a

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    The Complete Thunderbirds

    1985Trailer 1:33

    Hideaki Anno's first major professional work in which he served as lead editor on a highlights compilation that combined several Thunderbirds episodes into one movie.

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