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Boku no Katsu Seni Kanojo no... A tradgic Love Story w/ a VERY odd twist!
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Casshern Buy See Casshern : The Last Day on Earth

Casshern : The Last Day on Earth
Buy Fifty years of war between the Great Eastern Federation and Europa - now merged as Eurasia - have taken their toll on planet Earth. As a result of the use of biological, chemical and nuclear weapons, much of Earth has become uninhabitable and people have become prey to new diseases. Professor Azuma's "neo-cell" project, which is supposed to be the answer to mankinds hardships, becomes a nightmare come true when mutants spawned from the experiment escape and declare war on the human race. Azuma's son Tetsuya, who was killed during the previous war, is reborn into the cyborg Casshern as mankind's last hope against the new mutant threat. (Source: ANN)

City Hunter (Live-Action Movie)
Rent Ryo Saeba, a womanizing private detective, is hired to find the runaway daughter of a wealthy businessman. Ryo's pursuit of the girl leads him to a cruise ship. Through coincidence, and a plot device borrowed from Die Hard, the ocean liner is hijacked, leaving Ryo to contend with the hostage takers as well as the elusive daughter.

City Hunter (TV - Live Action)
The US TV Channel - FOX - has teamed up with Japanese and Korean companies to produce an English language live-action adaption of Tsukasa Hojo's City Hunter. Tentatively scheduled to be produced in Tokyo (Japan) and Seoul (Korea) and staring the popular (heart-throb) Korean star ↗Jung_Woo-sung as the notorious womanizing bad-boy ↗RYO SAEBA, it has been hinted that the first 'season' of this series will feature 13 episodes.

Cutie Honey (Live-Action Movie)
Rent When Honey's uncle gets kidnapped by the evil criminal gang known as "Panther Claw," she must use her magical powers of transformation (fueled by love) to save him. Meanwhile the same crime group has been responsible for a number of other crime sprees across Tokyo. In the process, Honey teams up with the seemingly cold police woman Natsuko Aki and hot shot journalist Seiji Hayami as well as battle the four "claws" of the Panther Claw gang to save her uncle and the rest of the city.

Cutie Honey The Live
Watch Three murderers have escaped simultaneously from three different prisons, using strange weapons that were somehow smuggled to them. Private detective Hayami Seiji is hired by the sister of one of the escapees to search for him. But he finds himself in over his head when he discovers that the escapes were part of a bizarre "game". Therefore, Hayami summons a friend of his--Cutie Honey!
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Death Note (live-action movie #1)
Watch Yagami Light is a brilliant college student who, one day, finds a notebook simply titled "Death Note." Inside of this book is a list of rules and details as for the use of the "Death Note." When he realizes the power he holds, he decides he's going to make over the world. He wants to make it into a better place by killing those who do others harm. He has been nicknamed by the police "Kira." L, a brilliant detective who lives in secrecy, rises from the shadows and puts his life on the line trying to capture Light. Both L and Light believe themselves on the side of Justice, and the two match wits trying to show exactly which of them is "good" and which of them is "evil."

Densha Otoko
Rent Densha Otoko has been described as "a fairy tale for the internet generation". Central to the story is the real-life Japanese web forum known as 2ch, the single largest internet message board in the world. A text-only forum in which all who post have complete anonymity, the lovelorn main character is given the nickname "Densha Otoko"--which means "Train Man"--by his fellow 2ch-ers after relating a story of how he met a beautiful woman on a train after standing up to a drunken passenger. Having no idea how to court the lady, who is nicknamed "Hermes" by the forum-goers, Densha Otoko turns to his fellow internet companions for help in winning her heart.

Detroit Metal City (live action)
Negishi Souichi leaves his family's farm in Oita Prefecture for the bright lights of Tokyo. There he swaps his taste in music from Swedish pop for the totally out-of-character death metal, taking on the role of vocalist in a metal band called 'Death Metal City' and adopting the stage name: Johannes Krauser II.

Dragonball Evolution
Avoid The story begins with Goku, who seeks out upon his adoptive grandfather Grandpa Gohan's dying request to find the great Master Roshi and gather all seven Dragon Balls. Of which he has one, in order to prevent the evil Lord Piccolo from succeeding in his desire to use the Dragon Balls to take over the world. And Goku's quest is to obtain the mystical Dragonballs before Piccolo does.

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Escuela de Escorpiones (Spanish) Watch See Volcano High
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Full Metal Panic! TSR Zenyasai ~ Light novel no yoake ~
This a documentary-style TV special that aired on WOWWOW. The special consisted of Shimokawa Mikuni (OP/ED, every FMP! anime) doing narrations for the program and interviews with Gatoh Shouji (Author, FMP!) and Takemoto Yasuhiro (Director, Fumoffu, TSR!), as well as some footage of the staff at Kyouto Animation hard at work. This special was released on DVD with the first episode of Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid in Japan. (Thanks to Melazoma, Nitengouki, & Slerch666 for this information. Melazoma wrote most of the above text.)
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Gokusen (Live Action)
Rent Gokusen tells a story about the young rookie teacher Yamaguchi Kumiko who is brave enough to accept as her first teaching assignment a position at the toughest high school in the district. While appearing to be very young and cute, she has to hide the fact that she is the daughter of a Yukusa leader, and that all of her brothers are active members in the Yukusa. But it is her family background that helps her to deal with the problems that occur at school in her own special way...

Golgo 13: Assignment Kowloon
Watch Sonny Chiba is Golgo 13 in this hardboiled adaptation of Japan's all-time bestselling manga comic book. As the world's #1 hitman, he is hired to kill Hong Kong's underworld kingpin. Standing in his was is a relentless cop (Callan Leung) determined to stop him at all costs. Assignment: Kowloon is a violent crime thriller loaded with stylish shootouts and martial arts action.
Genre
Action(9) Action Comedy(3) Comedy(9) Drama(7)
Horror(1) Mystery(1) Parody(2) Romance(4)
Suspense(1) Tragedy(2)
Setting
Fantasy(2) Modern(15) Sci-Fi(2)
Demographic
Kid at heart(2) Shounen(1)
Style
Weird(1)
Keywords
Adventure(2) Artificial Girls(2) Coming of Age(1) Competition(1)
Dark(3) Depression(2) Epic(1) Fighting(4)
Friendship(3) Gun-action(3) High School(3) Mahou Shoujo(1)
Martial Arts(4) Mecha(1) Music(3) Police(2)
School Comedy(1) Slice of Life(2) Soul Mates(1) Spiritual(1)
Supernatural(1) Swordplay(2) Violent(4) War(1)
Type
Movie(8) ONA(1) TV(9) TV Special(1)
Release Year
2009(3) 2008(4) 2007(2) 2006(1) 2005(1) 2004(4) 2001(1) 1992(1)
1977(1)
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