Soundtrack: Yoko Kanno
The best movies, series, and documentaries with a soundtrack by Yoko Kanno. Enjoy the titles that feature an unforgettable music.
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG (TV Series)
2004 · Series · 24 min. · Japan
Direction Kenji Kamiyama
Plot TV Series (2003-2005). 26 Episodes. In a futuristic world where the internet and cybernetics has blurred the borders between societies; the members of Public Security Section 9 are reinstated to...
8.1
2K votes
8.1
2K votes
Cowboy Bebop (TV Series)
1998 · Series · 25 min. · Japan
Direction Shin'ichirō Watanabe
Plot TV Series (2001-2002). 1 season. 26 episodes. In the year 2071, the Solar System is linked by a network of hyperspace gateways. Police lose their grasp on crime and a...
8.0
16K votes
8.0
16K votes
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man
2005 · Movie · 160 min. · Japan
Direction Kenji Kamiyama
Plot OVA from the series "Ghost in the shell". In 2024, the terrorist incident known as "The Laughing Man Incident" occurred in which Ernest Serano, president of the groundbreaking micromachine company,...
7.9
1K votes
7.9
1K votes
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (TV Series)
2002 · Series · 25 min. · Japan
Direction Kenji Kamiyama
Plot TV Series (2002-2005). 1 season. 26 episodes. Based on the manga by Masamune Shirow and directed by Kenji Kamiyama, "Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex" takes viewers to futuristic...
7.8
3K votes
7.8
3K votes
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Individual Eleven
2006 · Movie · 163 min. · Japan
Direction Kenji Kamiyama
Plot Taking the "A" Story from Second Gig. When a series of terrorists attacks committed by a group called the Individual Eleven becomes attributed to the already sensitive refugee problem, it's...
7.6
504 votes
7.6
504 votes
Kids on the Slope (TV Series)
2012 · Series · 24 min. · Japan
Direction Shin'ichirō Watanabe
Plot TV Series (2012). 12 Episodes. Nishimi Kaoru has moved from city to city and school to school because of his father's job. So the first day at his new school...
7.4
443 votes
7.4
443 votes
Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society (TV)
2006 · Movie · 108 min. · Japan
Direction Kenji Kamiyama
Plot A.D. 2034. It has been two years since Motoko Kusanagi left Section 9. Togusa is now the new leader of the team, that has considerably increased its appointed personnel. The...
7.4
1K votes
7.4
1K votes
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (Knockin' On Heaven's Door)
2001 · Movie · 116 min. · Japan
Direction Shin'ichirō Watanabe
Plot The year is 2071. Following a terrorist bombing, a deadly virus is released on the populace of Mars and the government has issued a 300 million woo-long reward, the largest...
7.3
6K votes
7.3
6K votes
Magnetic Rose
1995 · Movie · 45 min. · Japan
Direction Kōji Morimoto
Plot "Magnetic Rose" is about what happens when a deep space corporate freighter is called upon to investigate a distress signal from what ought to be a derelict space station. The...
7.3
1K votes
7.3
1K votes
Memories
1995 · Movie · 113 min. · Japan
Direction Katsuhiro Ōtomo · Kōji Morimoto · Tensai Okamura
Plot Created by celebrated animé master Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira, Roujin Z), MEMORIES consists of three dazzling stories, each delivered with its own astonishing style. "Magnetic Rose," directed by Koji Morimoto (Animatrix)...
7.2
3K votes
7.2
3K votes
Terror in Tokyo (TV Series)
2014 · Series · 25 min. · Japan
Direction Shin'ichirō Watanabe
Plot TV Series (2014). 11 Episodes. One summer day, a terrorist attack strikes Tokyo. The perpetrators are two boys who call themselves "Sphinx." The attack was just the beginning of the...
7.1
870 votes
7.1
870 votes
Darker Than Black (TV Series)
2007 · Series · 25 min. · Japan
Direction Tensai Okamura · Daisuke Chiba
Plot In Tokyo, an impenetrable field known as "Hell's Gate" appeared ten years ago. At the same time, psychics who wield paranormal powers at the cost of their conscience also emerged....
7.1
808 votes
7.1
808 votes
Wolf's Rain (TV Series)
2003 · Series · min. · Japan
Direction Tensai Okamura · Yoshiyuki Takei · Ikuro Sato · Hiroyuki Kanbe
Plot In a post-apocalyptic future where humans live in domed cities surrounded by wasteland, wolves are assumed to be two hundred years extinct. Yet wolves do walk among them, disguising themselves...
7.1
1K votes
7.1
1K votes
Our Little Sister
2015 · Movie · 128 min. · Japan
Direction Hirokazu Koreeda
Cast Haruka Ayase · Masami Nagasawa · Suzu Hirose · Kaho
Plot A story that revolves around three sisters who live in their grandmother's home and the arrival of their 13-year-old half sister.
7.0
3K votes
7.0
3K votes
The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House (TV Series)
2023 · Series · 38 min. · Japan
Direction Hirokazu Koreeda · Hiroshi Okuyama · Takuma Satô · Megumi Tsuno
Cast Mayu Matsuoka · Ai Hashimoto · Nana Mori · Keiko Matsuzaka
Plot Kiyo becomes a Makanai (person who cooks meals) at a house where Maiko (apprentice geishas) live together.
7.0
511 votes
7.0
511 votes
6.9
21 votes
Macross Plus
1994 · Movie · 160 min. · Japan
Direction Shoji Kawamori · Shin'ichirō Watanabe
Plot The year is 2040 and the galaxy is flourishing with several colonies and advanced technology. AI is near perfection and the current top idol is the near-completed Virturoid Idol Sharon...
6.8
208 votes
6.8
208 votes
Earth Girl Arjuna (TV Series)
2001 · Series · 25 min. · Japan
Direction Shoji Kawamori
Plot A fatally injured girl is saved in her near death experience to become the chosen defender of Earth.
6.8
91 votes
6.8
91 votes
Happy-Go-Lucky
1997 · Movie · 74 min. · Japan
Direction Tetsuya Nakashima
Cast Hidaka Yoshitomo · Nagi Noriko · Maki Ishikawa · Hiroko Taguchi
Plot Takashi and four of his classmates, fourth-grade students, cannot succeed in doing a back pullover around a horizontal bar. Their gym teacher warns them: they have one week to succeed;...
6.8
49 votes
6.8
49 votes
Vision of Escaflowne (TV Series)
1996 · Series · 30 min. · Japan
Direction Shoji Kawamori · Kazuki Akane · Yoshiyuki Takei · Takeshi Yoshimoto
Plot Hitomi is a girl with psychic abilities who gets transported to the magical world of Gaea. She and her friends find themselves under attack from the evil Zaibach empire, and...
6.8
1K votes
6.8
1K votes