51.	View Larger Image	Pom Poko Director: Isao Takahata
		From Amazon.com Isao Takahata's outré ecological fable Pom Poko was the no. 1 domestic film in Japan in 1994, and the first animated feature to be submitted for the Oscar for Foreign Language Film. In 1967, the raccoons in the Tama Hills find their homes are threatened with destruction when developers turn the rural area into suburbs. Under the leadership of their tribal ... more Buy from Amazon

52.	View Larger Image	Jin-Roh - The Wolf Brigade Director: Hiroyuki Okiura
		From Amazon.com Written by Mamoru Oshii (the director of the cult favorite Ghost in the Shell) and directed by Hiroyuki Okiura (a key animator on Akira), Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade offers a violent but compelling vision in animation. The story is set in a fictionalized version of the recent past, when a repressive Japanese government is battling the Sect, a violent revolutionary organization ... more Buy from Amazon

53.	View Larger Image	Lone Wolf and Cub - Baby Cart in Peril Director: Buichi Saito
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54.		Matango:Attack of the Mushroom People Actor: Akira Kubo
		From Description Directed by Ishiro Honda (The Godzilla Series!) After a yacht is damaged in a storm and it’s boarders stranded on a deserted island the passengers; a psychologist and his girlfriend, a wealthy businessman, a famous singer, a writer, a sailor and his skipper take refuge in a mysterious fungus-covered boat. While using the MUSHROOMS for sustenance they find in the ships ... more Buy from Amazon

55.	View Larger Image	Pokemon the First Movie - Mewtwo vs. Mew Actors: Veronica Taylor, Rachael Lillis, Eric Stuart (III) Directors: Michael Haigney, Kunihiko Yuyama
		From Amazon.com The world domination of Pokémon begets their first theatrical movie. This adventure is a little more complex and dark than the popular TV series, but kids who live for the show will gobble up this film and ask for seconds. Those baffled by the show's popularity, however, will see nothing better here. Mewtwo, a new type of Pokémon designed by scientists ... more Buy from Amazon

56.	View Larger Image	Cardcaptor Sakura - The Movie 2 - The Sealed Card (Special Edtion) Director: Morio Asaka
		From Amazon.com Four months after the end of the broadcast series, Sakura and her friends are starting 6th grade; Toya and Yuki are college freshmen. The magical Clow Cards have been captured, but Shaoran Li has returned to Hong Kong, and Sakura has yet to respond to his declaration of love. Tomoyo arranges for him and Meilin to visit for the opening of ... more Buy from Amazon

57.	View Larger Image	The Place Promised in Our Early Days Director: Makoto Shinkai
		From Amazon.com Makoto Shinkai made an impressive debut as a writer-director in Voices of a Distant Star (OVA, 2002); The Place Promised in Our Early Days (OVA, 2004) is his first studio work. In this alternate world, Japan was divided after World War II: Hokkaido, renamed "Ezo," belongs to "the Union;" the rest of archipelago is an American dependency. Ezo is dominated by ... more Buy from Amazon

58.	View Larger Image	Moon Child Director: Takahisa Zeze
		From Description Japanese pop stars Gackt and HYDE star in this wild hybrid of futuristic science fiction, John Woo-style gunplay, and Gothic vampire horror. MOON CHILD follows a group of childhood friends as they advance in a futuristic criminal underworld. Sho (Gackt) feels he is doomed to walk in his idol Kei's (HYDE) footsteps as a vampire with the gift of eternal life ... more Buy from Amazon

59.	View Larger Image	Vampire Hunter D - Bloodlust Directors: Tai Kit Mak, Yoshiaki Kawajiri
		From Amazon.com Based on a series of fantasy novels by Hideyuki Kikuchi, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust is a bloody anime adventure. Set in the distant future, the story focuses on D (voice by Andrew Philpot), the son of a vampire and a mortal who has dedicated his life to exterminating vampires. D is pursuing Charlotte (Wendee Lee), who has been carried off by ... more Buy from Amazon

60.	View Larger Image	Hiroshima Mon Amour - Criterion Collection Actors: Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada Director: Alain Resnais
		From Amazon.com An extraordinary and deeply moving film that retains much of its power since its original release in 1959, Alain Resnais's Hiroshima, Mon Amour is the story of a French woman (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese man (Eiji Okada) who become lovers in the city of Hiroshima, where the U.S. dropped a nuclear bomb to end World War II in the Pacific. Written ... more Buy from Amazon