Soundtrack: Yoko Kanno
The best movies, series, and documentaries with a soundtrack by Yoko Kanno. Enjoy the titles that feature an unforgettable music.
Tokyo.Sora
2002 · Movie · 127 min. · Japan
Direction Hiroshi Ishikawa
Cast Haruka Igawa · Yuka Itaya · Ayano Nakamura · Manami Honjou
6.6
33 votes
6.6
33 votes
Petal Dance
2013 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan
Direction Hiroshi Ishikawa
Cast Aoi Miyazaki · Shiori Kutsuna · Sakura Ando · Kazue Fukiishi
Plot Four women, who have their own different sorrows, embark on a road trip. They look back at their past and restart their lives.
6.6
60 votes
6.6
60 votes
Macross Frontier (TV Series)
2008 · Series · 25 min. · Japan
Direction Yasuhito Kikuchi · Shoji Kawamori
Plot Macross Frontier marks the 25th anniversary of the Macross anime franchise. It is a direct sequel to the first Macross series and Macross 7 and follows the lives of Alto...
6.4
76 votes
6.4
76 votes
The Show Must Go On
2007 · Movie · 109 min. · South Korea
Direction Han Jae-rim
Cast Song Kang-ho · Oh Dal-su · Choi Il-hwa · Park Ji-yeong
Plot In-gu (Song Kang-ho) is a kingpin in a dark world. However, he’s the sweetest husband and dad, full of love for his family. His only goal in life is to...
6.4
135 votes
6.4
135 votes
Su-ki-da
2005 · Movie · 104 min. · Japan
Direction Hiroshi Ishikawa
Cast Aoi Miyazaki · Hidetoshi Nishijima · Hiromi Nagasaku · Eita
Plot Two kids meet near a floodgate after school. Yu is a shy 17 year old girl who sits down next to Yosuke as he plays his guitar. Yosuke recently gave...
6.4
80 votes
6.4
80 votes
Kamikaze Girls
2004 · Movie · 102 min. · Japan
Direction Tetsuya Nakashima
Cast Kyôko Fukada · Anna Tsuchiya · Hiroyuki Miyasako · Sadao Abe
Plot Momoko is an ordinary girl, living an ordinary life. Ordinary, that is, if you define ordinary as wearing elaborate lolita dresses from the Rococo period in 18th Century France. A...
6.2
938 votes
6.2
938 votes
Blame!
2017 · Movie · 106 min. · Japan
Direction Hiroyuki Seshita
Plot In the distant technological future, civilization has reached its ultimate Net-based form. An "infection" in the past caused the automated systems to spiral out of order, resulting in a multi-leveled...
6.1
2K votes
6.1
2K votes
Escaflowne: The Movie
2000 · Movie · 98 min. · Japan
Direction Kazuki Akane · Yoshiyuki Takei
Plot Escaflowne (エスカフローネ) is a 2000 anime movie, a complete retelling of the events of the anime television series The Vision of Escaflowne. Animated by Sunrise and Studio BONES, The movie...
6.1
1K votes
6.1
1K votes
Please Save My Earth
1993 · Movie · 180 min. · Japan
Direction Kazuo Yamazaki
Plot Alice Sakaguchi once dreamt that she is another person living on the moon. The dream is so strange and so real that Alice can't stop thinking about it. She finds...
6.0
26 votes
6.0
26 votes
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Tachikomatic Days (TV Miniseries)
2002 · Series · 26 min. · Japan
Direction Kevin Seymour · Mary Elizabeth McGlynn
Plot A Series of shorts that explore the "mindset" of the tachikoma intelligent tanks
6.0
272 votes
6.0
272 votes
Cowboy Bebop: Lost Session (S)
2021 · Movie · 3 min. · United States
Direction Greg Jardin
Cast John Cho · Mustafa Shakir · Daniella Pineda · Alex Hassell
5.9
270 votes
5.9
270 votes
Macross Frontier: The false Songstress
2009 · Movie · 120 min. · Japan
Direction Shoji Kawamori
Plot The galaxy songstress Sheryl Nome, Ranka Lee, Alto Saotome & friends are traveling the space along with the New Macross class ship -Macross Frontier- that contains 10 million citizens in...
5.9
31 votes
5.9
31 votes
Noiseman Sound Insect (S)
1997 · Movie · 15 min. · Japan
Direction Kōji Morimoto
Plot 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...
5.7
75 votes
5.7
75 votes
Beautiful Sunday
1998 · Movie · 96 min. · Japan
Direction Tetsuya Nakashima
Cast Momoko Bitô · Teruyuki Kagawa · Ittoku Kishibe · Masatoshi Nagase
Plot Tetsuya Nakajima directs this black comedy about Sunday, that day of rest. Constructed like Grand Hotel, the film interweaves the lives of an assorted collection of oddball Tokyoites living in...
5.2
26 votes
5.2
26 votes
Brain Powered (TV Series)
1998 · Series · 30 min. · Japan
Direction Yoshiyuki Tomino
Plot In a world ravaged by flooding caused by the ascension of the giant organic alien vessel Orphan from deep beneath the sea, two sides suddenly emerge in a battle for...
5.0
26 votes
5.0
26 votes
Turn A Gundam II: Moonlight Butterfly
2002 · Movie · 128 min. · Japan
Direction Yoshiyuki Tomino
Plot Following the events of the first movie, the Militia finishes restoration work on its excavated spaceship and travels to the moon to deal with Gym Ghingnham and Agrippa Maintainer, who...
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Aquarion (TV Series)
2005 · Series · 30 min. · Japan
Direction Shoji Kawamori
Plot In a distant future, humanity once again is facing the threat of the "Shadow Angels". Mystical creatures who returned after 12.000 years of absence. They attack human cities and kidnap...
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Boku wa benkyo ga dekinai
1996 · Movie · 96 min. · Japan
Direction Yasuhiko Yamamoto
Cast Jun Toba · Sayaka Yamaguchi · Kazuya Takahashi · Hideo Takamatsu
Plot Based on the novel of the same name.
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Honey & Clover
2006 · Movie · 117 min. · Japan
Direction Masahiro Takada
Cast Shô Sakurai · Yû Aoi · Yusuke Iseya · Ryo Kase
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