161. Metropolis ( Metoroporisu )
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Rintaro
Actors: Yuka Imoto, Kei Kobayashi, Kouki Okada, Tarô Ishida, Jamieson Price, Kousei Tomita
Plot: A story of a young boy, and his uncle from Japan are on the hunt for a mad doctor who supposedly uses human body parts to creating new robots. But in the midst of the investigation, Kinichi.. nephew to his great detective uncle finds himself kneeling face to face to a small girl who the mad scientist himself had created.
Now both are on the run from a hit squad lead by a boy named Rock who must hunt them down to cover for his adopted father's tracks against humanity. Sealed within this girl however is a fail safe switch if she was ever to come to harm. If it activates, it would mean all life on earth would be wiped out in eighteen hours.
162. xxxHOLiC the Movie : A Midsummer Night's Dream ( Gekijôban XXXHolic Manatsu no yoru no yume )
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Tsutomu Mizushima
Actors: Sayaka Ohara, Jun Fukuyama, Kazuya Nakai, Shizuka Ito, Mika Kikuchi, Miyu Irino
Plot: Yuko, Watanuke and Domeki are invited to a strange mansion with a group of collectors. But with the mansion eerily complicated and the dinner party disappearing what is really behind the invitations?
163. Scandal ( Shubun )
Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Actors: Toshirô Mifune, Shirley Yamaguchi, Yôko Katsuragi, Noriko Sengoku, Eitarô Ozawa, Takashi Shimura
Plot: A Japanese industrialist is so obsessed by fear of a nuclear attack that he plots to give up everything he has built and relocate his family to Brazil. A study of postwar upheaval in Japan - cultural, generational, ideological.
164. Weathering with You ( Tenki no ko )
Year of Release: 2020
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Makoto Shinkai
Actors: Kotaro Daigo, Nana Mori, Tsubasa Honda, Sakura Kiryu, Chieko Baishô, Ryô Narita
165. Children Who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below ( Hoshi o ou kodomo )
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Adventure
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Makoto Shinkai
Actors: Hisako Kanemoto, Kazuhiko Inoue, Miyu Irino, Leraldo Anzaldua, Hilary Haag, Corey Hartzog
166. Our Little Sister ( Umimachi Diary )
Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Actors: Haruka Ayase, Masami Nagasawa, Kaho, Suzu Hirose, Ryô Kase, Ryôhei Suzuki
167. After the Storm ( Umi yori mo mada fukaku )
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Actors: Hiroshi Abe, Yôko Maki, Taiyô Yoshizawa, Kirin Kiki, Lily Franky, Sôsuke Ikematsu
168. Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound ( Doragon bôru Z 9: Ginga girigiri!! Butchigiri no sugoi yatsu )
Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Animation/Action
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Yoshihiro Ueda
Actors: Masako Nozawa, Toshio Furukawa, Mayumi Tanaka, Takeshi Kusao, Tôru Furuya, Hirotaka Suzuoki
169. Goemon
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kazuaki Kiriya
Actors: Yôsuke Eguchi, Takao Ôsawa, Ryoko Hirosue, Jun Kaname, Masatô Ibu, Susumu Terajima
Plot: In 1582 with the intention to dominate the world of Oda Nobunaga in the
instinct of Temple was the assassination of the anti-Chen Akechi Mitsuhide.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi Nobunaga's right hand man crusade against Akechi Mitsuhide revolted and established the Toyotomi regime...
170. The Animatrix
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Action
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Multiple
Actors: Akio Ôtsuka, Clayton Watson, Olivia d'Abo, Kevin Michael Richardson, Tara Strong, Keanu Reeves
Plot: A collection of animated shorts that deals with some of the characters in
The Matrix films as well as the history behind the fall of man and
creation of The Matrix.
