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Onkyou Seimeitai Noiseman

Also known as NOISEMAN SOUNDINSECT.

Studio: Horipro , Bandai Visual , Studio 4°C
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy , Sci-Fi

The film is set in the distant future in a city called Cahmpon. A scientist creates a synthetic life-form called Noiseman, which erases music from the airwaves by turning it into crystals. A group of Biker street kids rebels against this tyranny.



Tags: Urban Fantasy , Fugitive

Sweat Punch

Also known as Sweat Punch.

Studio: Horipro , Studio 4°C
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy , Horror , Mecha , Music , Sci-Fi

Sweat Punch is a series of five Studio 4°C shorts collected as a direct-to-DVD package film entitled Deep Imagination.

Tanpetori Kyouju no Yuuutsu (タンペトリー教授の憂鬱, Professor Dan Petory's Blues)
A musical number starring a hand puppet named Junior. The puppet is controlled by the drunken Professor Dan Petory who explains in puppetry the answers to such questions as why the Earth is blue and why UFOs fly in a zig-zag pattern.

End of the World
"End of the World" is a science fiction story about a young alien girl named Yuko as she escapes from the world of humans. After meeting Kazumi, a human girl Yuko met at a rock concert, the girls head to Kazumi's apartment. Before Yuko even takes off her shoes, however, she leaves through Kazumi's TV with her trusty cybernetic steed FACE to wage a retaliatory campaign against hordes of S&M monsters from another dimension, and the evil queen of Yuko's world.

Kigeki (喜劇, Comedy)
Set during the Irish War of Independence, a five-year old girl goes out in search of the mysterious Demon’s Castle - home of the Black Knight whose services she hopes to recruit. The Black Knight is a dark, young, skilled swordsman who will only accept a particular genre of books as advance payment.

Higan (彼岸, Enlightenment)
An injured man lies completely still in a hospital room with doctors hovering at his bedside, appearing serene and peaceful as he slowly succumbs to death. However, in his own mind, memories of a recent battle vividly flash by. Thoughts of death and chaos haunt him, even in his final moments.

Garakuta no Machi (ガラクタの町, Junk Town)
One summer day, a young boy encounters a little robot at a shopping arcade-a hungry little robot, it turns out, as he devours one machine after the other, growing in size with each "meal". This story of a boy, a machine, and their little adventure is the tale of an unusual friendship, enriched by the details of daily life and seen through the director's unique visual style.



Tags: War , Anthology , Historical , Real Robot , Demons , Musical Theater , Aliens , CGI

Genius Party

Studio: Horipro , Studio 4°C
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy , Mecha , Music , Psychological , Romance , Sci-Fi

An anthology of seven short animated films from Studio 4°C:

1.) Genius Party (directed by Atsuko Fukushima)
A bizarre bird-like creature runs through a barren desert and finds what seems to be a smiling egg lying on the ground.

2.) Shanghai Dragon (directed by Shouji Kawamori)
An imaginative Chinese boy finds a futuristic device that can make his own drawings come to life. After discovering the device, the town he lives in is about to be invaded by spaceships and machines of mass destruction that are all centuries ahead of Earth's time.

3.) Deathtic 4 (directed by Shinji Kimura)
A tale set in a world full of zombies, living their normal zombie lives. A living frog falls from the blackened sky of the zombie world, and a little zombie boy with his friends try to bring the living creature back to its own world.

4.) Doorbell (directed by Youji Fukuyama)
The main character is a ghost in his own world. He must outrun the other versions of himself, or they will take over his life.

5.) Limit Cycle (directed by Hideki Futamura)
An existential examination of the world as seen through the lens of a man seemingly trapped in an endless cycle of work.

6.) Happy Machine (directed by Masaaki Yuasa)
An infant who is happily secured in his own nursery suddenly discovers that everything about the nursery is fake. Soon the infant is forced out of the nursery into the world that exists outside, where adventure awaits, and there are many alien-like creatures to encounter.

7.) Baby Blue (directed by Shinichirou Watanabe)
A small adventure of two young students who decide to go anywhere they can for just one day, to enjoy that day without caring about the rest, and simply be together.



Tags: Anthology , Aliens , CGI , Zombie , Episodic

Nihon Animator Mihonichi

Also known as Japan Anima(tor)’s Exhibition.

Studio: Studio Khara
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Ecchi , Fantasy , Mecha , Music , Supernatural

Japan Anima(tor)'s Exhibition is the showcase of the animations produced by various directors with love and energy, which are planned from original projects, spin-off projects, promotional films, Music PV, and VJ Films etc...

Episodes:
01: The Dragon Dentist (Directed by Outarou Maijou)
02: HILL CLIMB GIRL (Directed by Azuma Tani)
03: ME!ME!ME! (Directed by Hibiki Yoshizaki)
04: Carnage (Directed by Akira Honma)
05: Yoshikazu Yasuhiko & Ichiro Itano: Collection of Key Animation Films (collection of key animation from 1979's Mobile Suit Gundam)
06: 20min Walk From Nishi-Ogikubo Station, 2 Bedrooms, Living Room, Dining Room, Kitchen, 2mos Deposit, No Pets Allowed (Directed by Takeshi Honda & Mahiro Maeda)
07: Until you come to me. (Directed by Tadashi Hiramatsu)
08: Tomorrow from there (Directed by Akemi Hayashi)
09: Denkou Choujin Gridman: boys invent great hero (Directed by Akira Amemiya)
10: YAMADELOID (Directed by Takashi Horiuchi & Masahiro Emoto)
11: POWER PLANT No. 33 (Directed by Yasuhiro Yoshiura & Kengo Saito)
12: Evangelion: Another Impact (Confidential) (Directed by Shinji Aramaki)
13: Kanón (Directed by Mahiro Maeda)
14: SEX and VIOLENCE with MACHSPEED (Directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi)
15: Obake-Chan (Directed by Shigeto Koyama)
16: Tsukikage no Tokio (Directed by Takanobu Mizuno)
17: THREE FALLEN WITNESSES (Directed by Satoru Utsunomiya)
18: The Diary of Ochibi (Directed by Masashi Kawamura)
19: I can Friday by Day! (Directed by Kazuya Tsurumaki)
20A: ME!ME!ME! CHRONIC feat.daoko / TeddyLoid (Directed by Hibiki Yoshizaki, remix of short #3)
20B: (Making of) evangelion:Another Impact (Making of video of short #12)
21: ICONIC FIELD (Directed by Ikuto Yamashita)
22: IBUSEKI YORUNI (Directed by Tadashi Hiramatsu)
23: Memoirs of amorous gentlemen (Produced by Cork Inc.)
24: Rapid Rouge (Directed by Daisuke Onitsuka)
25: HAMMERHEAD (Directed by Otaro Maijo)
26: COMEDY SKIT 1989 (Directed by Kazuto Nakazawa)
27: BUBU & BUBULINA (Directed by Takashi Nakamura)
28: ENDLESS NIGHT (Directed by Sayo Yamamoto)
29: BUREAU OF PROTO SOCIETY (Directed by Yasuhiro Yoshiura)
30: The Ultraman (Directed by Akitoshi Yokoyama)
31: GIRL (Directed by Hibiki Yoshizaki)
32: Neon Genesis IMPACTS. (Directed by Yuhei Sakuragi)
33: Ragnarok (Directed by Kazuyoshi Katayama)
34: Robot on the Road (Directed by Hiroyuki Okiura)
35: Cassette Girl (Directed by Hiroyasu Kobayashi)

Note: #20A and #20B (special) are counted as two separate episodes in the episode total.

Tags: Anthology , Nudity , Ero Guro , Episodic , Super Robot , Musical Theater , Gore , Surreal Comedy , No Dialogue , Satire , Cycling , Military , Space , Guns , Revenge , War , Swordplay , Magic , Henshin , Disability , Kaiju , Dragons , Real Robot , Samurai , Cyberpunk , Stop Motion , Dissociative Identities , Post-Apocalyptic , Noir