Lensman (1984)
Feb 12, 2001Anime/Space Opera
E.E. 'Doc' Smith's Lensman books are space opera classics. Here they are given the anime treatment, which abandons much adherence to the source material and ends up more as a copy of Star Wars
Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Wicked City (1987)
Feb 15, 2001Anime/War with Demon Dimension
Anime from Yoshiaki Kawajiri about a war with a demon dimension that falls halfway between H.P. Lovecraft and a hard-boiled detective thriller and brims over wit fascinatingly pathological sexual imagery
Demon City Shinjuku (1988)
Mar 14, 2016Anime/Suburb of Tokyo Taken Over by Demonic Forces
Anime from Yoshiaki Kawajiri, director of Wicked City and Ninja Scroll, concerning a suburb of Tokyo that is transformed into a borderland zone inhabited by demonic forces
Ninja Scroll (1993)
Jul 7, 2020Anime/Ninja vs Demonic Forces
One of the most extraordinary of all anime films - apparently a favourite of The Wachowskis (you can see they've borrowed moves from it), concerning ninja facing supernaturally empowered assassins demonic forces, directed with an extraordinary visual stylism
Vampire Hunter D (2000)
Sep 30, 2001Anime/Vampire Hunter
Yoshiaki Kawajiri, director of Ninja Scroll and Wicked City, steps in to make a sequel(?)/reboot(?) to the cult 1985 anime with visually enthralling regard
The Animatrix (2003)
Nov 26, 2005Compilation of Matrix Anime Shorts
To accompany their two Matrix sequels, The Wackowskis hired seven anime directors to each make a short film set in The Matrix universe. The results are often quite remarkable
Highlander: The Search for Vengeance (2007)
Mar 7, 2009Immortal Combat/Anime
The Highlander series conducts an anime variant on the franchise set in a post-apocalyptic future. Co-directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri of Ninja Scroll fame who adds some highly stylised moves