31.	View Larger Image	Appleseed (Limited Collector's Edition with Metal Case) Actors: Ai Kobayashi, Jûrôta Kosugi, Yuki Matsuoka Director: Shinji Aramaki
		From Amazon.com The 2004 Appleseed feature is a reworking of the earlier video based on the manga by Masamune Shirow (Ghost in the Shell). In 2131, most of humanity has withdrawn to the glittering city of Olympus after a devastating war. When the curvaceous Deunan Knute comes to Olympus, she encounters her former comrade Briareos, now a cyborg, and the lovely android Hitomi. ... more Buy from Amazon

32.	View Larger Image	Samurai X - The Motion Picture (Rurouni Kenshin) Actor: Samurai X
		From Amazon.com Although it boasts plenty of sword fights, martial arts combat, and odd, orange blood, Samurai X offers deeper and more sensitive characterizations than typical anime samurai epics. Based on the manga by Noboru Watsuki, the film centers on questions about the nature of Japanese society during the years following the Meiji Restoration in the late 19th century. Kenshin Himura and his ... more Buy from Amazon

33.		The Adventures of Milo & Otis Actors: Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Kyôko Koizumi, Dudley Moore Director: Masanori Hata
		From Amazon.com Japanese filmmaker Masanori Hata made this above-average family film about a dog and a cat--friends with a tendency to make mischief--who go on an unanticipated adventure when one is rushed downriver and the other follows. Hata, who took four years to complete the work, relies on purely cinematic storytelling techniques (these animals don't have human voices on the soundtrack), making the ... more Buy from Amazon

34.	View Larger Image	The Transformers - The Movie Director: Nelson Shin
		From Amazon.com During the 1980s, one cartoon series ruled the airwaves... The Transformers. This paragon of consumerism was created with a dual purpose--to entertain and to galvanize children to buy the toys. Somewhere along the line, the show became a cult favorite, so in 1986 they fashioned an epic tale of good versus evil specifically for the big screen. The result looked vaguely ... more Buy from Amazon

35.	View Larger Image	Cowboy Bebop - The Movie Actors: Beau Billingslea, Melissa Charles Directors: Shinichirô Watanabe, Hiroyuki Okiura
		From Amazon.com As the eagerly awaited Cowboy Bebop feature film reunites the original director, screenwriter, composer, and vocal cast, it's not surprising that the film plays like an expanded TV episode. What should be the routine capture of a two-bit hacker by Faye escalates into a deadly game of cat and mouse, as Spike and the gang struggle to prevent the evil Vincent ... more Buy from Amazon

36.	View Larger Image	The Twilight Samurai Director: Yôji Yamada
		From Amazon.com Slow-paced and subtle in presentation, The Twilight Samurai captures a side of the famed samurai that is rarely seen. Set in a northeastern province (Shonai) of late nineteenth century Japan, the film tells the story of Seibei Iguchi (Hiroyuki Sanada)--a low-ranking, debt-ridden samurai who, after losing his wife to consumption, struggles to care for his two young daughters and senile mother. ... more Buy from Amazon

37.	View Larger Image	Dragon Ball Z - Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan (Uncut) Director: Daisuke Nishio
		From Amazon.com In the eighth Dragon Ball movie (1993), King Kai summons Goku to stop a Super Saiyan who's laid waste to the South Galaxy, and who plans to attack Earth. Paragas arrives and implores Vegeta to rule a re-created Planet Vegeta. Paragas's son Broly was born on the same day as Goku, but at a power level of 10,000! Fearing this potential ... more Buy from Amazon

38.	View Larger Image	The Yakuza Papers - Battles Without Honor & Humanity (Complete Box Set) Actor: Bunta Sugawara
		From Amazon.com While The Godfather romanticized the American Mafia in the early 1970s, Kinji Fukasaku's five-film series known as The Yakuza Papers: Battles Without Honor & Humanity revolutionized the Japanese yakuza film with unprecedented intensity. A post-World War II epic that broke Japanese box-office records, this complex, utterly authentic cycle of gangster films replaced the popular ninkyo or "chivalry" films of the '60s ... more Buy from Amazon

39.	View Larger Image	Escaflowne - The Movie Actor: Kazuki Akane
		From Amazon.com Escaflowne is a sprawling adventure saga that infuses sword-and-sorcery and mecha elements into the popular "magical girl" anime genre. The girl is Hitomi Kanzaki (voice by Kelly Sheridan), a withdrawn teenager who wishes she could just leave everything behind and vanish. When she's magically transported to the alternate world of Gaia, she gets her wish--in spades. The dashing Van (Kirby Morrow) ... more Buy from Amazon

40.	View Larger Image	Vampire Hunter D Directors: Carl Macek, Toyoo Ashida
		From Amazon.com D, a haunted half-human, half-vampire warrior, wanders the countryside of a feudalistic future, hunting his own kind while battling his own evil nature. Like a rogue samurai, the silent, solitary hero wanders into a small hamlet terrorized by the all-powerful Count, a monstrous vampire lord, and his demonic minions from a castle that casts a long shadow over the countryside. The ... more Buy from Amazon