Hideaki Anno
Also Known As: 庵野 秀明, 안노 히데아키, Хидэаки Анно, هيدياكي أنّو, Хідеакі Анно, 庵野秀明, 空母そ・そ・そ・そ, Anno Hideaki
Biography: Hideaki Anno (born May 22, 1960 in Ube, Yamaguchi) is a Japanese animation and film director. Anno is best known for his work on the popular anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion. His style has come to be defined by the touches of superflatism and postmodernism that he injects into his work, as well as the thorough portrayal of characters' thoughts and emotions, often through unconventional sequences incorporating psychoanalysis and emotional deconstruction of these characters. He married comics artist Moyoco Anno in 27 April 2002. Anime directed by Anno that have won the Animage Anime Grand Prix award have been Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water in 1990, Neon Genesis Evangelion in 1995 and 1996, and The End of Evangelion in 1997. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hideaki Anno, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan
Birthday: May 22, 1960
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Gender: Male
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Ichikei's Crow The Movie
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Genres: Mystery Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-01-13
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Cutie Honey
Overview: When Honey's uncle gets kidnapped by the evil criminal gang known as "Panther Claw," she must use her magical powers of transformation 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.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-05-29
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Funky Forest: The First Contact
Overview: An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother, his randy older sibling, and the pair's portly Caucasian brother.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-10-25
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True Love
Overview: Natsumi which has been moved to a deceased mother's family in Izu, to change schools to the same high school as the cousin, driven into lacrosse. But one day, you know the father and his secret.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-01-09
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Documentary "Shin Kamen Rider" ~Behind the Scenes of the Hero Action Challenge~
Overview: "Shin Kamen Rider" is the first live-action film directed by Hideaki Anno since "Shin Godzilla" seven years ago. In the 52-year history of the "Masked Rider" series, this is the first time that cameras have been on the production site for an extended period of time. Please take a look at the two years of the creators taking on the challenge of creating an unprecedented heroic action film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-03-31
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The Taste of Tea
Overview: A spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film project. Uncle Ayano, a successful music producer, is looking to get his head together after living in Tokyo. Meanwhile, Sachiko is concerned with why she seems to be followed by a giant version of herself. As the lazy days pass by, each member of the family is followed in a series of episodic vignettes.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-07-17
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Dragon Quest Fantasia Video
Overview: Dragon Quest Fantasia Video is a direct-to-video live action production of the Dragon Quest series that was released by Enix in 1988. A silent reinterpretation of different elements of the Erdrick trilogy games set to various music from the games composed by Koichi Sugiyama and performed by the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. The video was planned and produced by Toshio Okada, who was then the head of anime studio Gainax, who worked on the movie's special effects, and Tohokushinsha Film.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-12-21
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Abunai Deka Forever The Movie
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Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-09-12
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Frog River
Overview: Record shop clerk and aspiring DJ Tsutomu searches for his masculinity when challenged to a kendo duel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-12-04
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The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers
Overview: A sequel to the 1980 movie The Legend of the Stardust Brothers. As well as being a rock musical comedy, it also borrows elements from other genres such as road movies, westerns, and meta fiction.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-01-20
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Sakuran
Overview: Anna Tsuchiya blasts back in time playing an oiran, a top-notched geisha of the Edo period’s Yoshiwara District, navigating brothel politics while trying to cling to the man she loves.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-12-07
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NAKAMURIDER
Overview: Anno directed and also appeared in this short, live-action film when he was in the third year at high school. Starring Akimasa Nakamura, the student council president, it was made as the Art Club’s exhibit for the school festival. The film condenses his favorite elements, makes full use of effects such as stop motion and film scratching, and the images that are spontaneously and freely constructed solely by his senses represents the starting point of Anno’s special effects live action films. The adapted version which was re-edited by Anno in 2005 is screened.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Once upon a time returning to my hometown
Overview: Extra, behind scenes from Hideaki Anno's film Ritual (also known as Shiki-Jitsu).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-07-24
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Death Kappa
Overview: When military experiments go haywire and trigger an atomic bomb, the consequences are of epic proportions. A monster arrives in the midst of the nuclear fallout, and Japan's defenses are helpless against it. Mankind's only savior is an irradiated water goblin from Japanese folklore called the "Death Kappa." The two rival monsters must go head-to-head in the ultimate battle between good and evil!
Genres: Action Science Fiction Comedy Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-06-25
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Shin Ultraman
Overview: The Japanese government sets up a special task force to fight the giant creatures suddenly appearing across the country. Soon, the squad unexpectedly meets a giant silver humanoid who starts appearing every time a space monster attacks!
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-05-13
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The Wind Rises
Overview: A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II fighter plane.
Genres: Drama Animation Romance War History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-07-20
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Aikoku Sentai Dai-Nippon
Overview: Aikoku Sentai Dai-Nippon fight the evil plan of the Red Bear Empire, led by Death Kremlin, to brainwash the children of Japan by replacing the pages of their textbooks with red paper.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-08-01
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The Catch Man
Overview: Takashi, an unemployed young man, is entrusted with a "catch ball shop" by a stranger he meets in the park. While accepting people's feelings through catch ball, Takashi himself remembers the important things that he had forgotten.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-10-21
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The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness
Overview: Follows the behind-the-scenes work of Studio Ghibli, focusing on the notable figures Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, and Toshio Suzuki.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-11-16
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Hideaki Anno's Ultraman
Overview: Ultraman fan film made by Anno a few years prior to the daicon film.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Extra Curricular Lesson with Hideaki Anno
Overview: Sometime in 1999, after Neon Genesis Evangelion finished and during the pre-production of Kare Kano, Evangelion's director Hideaki Anno appeared on a TV show on NHK called "Welcome Back for an Extracurricular Lesson, Senpai!", which features Japanese celebrities revisiting their old stomping grounds and teaches a class ...
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
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Welcome to the Quiet Room
Overview: 28 year old freelance writer Sakura Asuka wakes up tied in a white room. The white room is a protected room located in an isolated ward of a psychiatric hospital. Sakura first became unconscious because of heavy alcohol use and a druge overdose. She’s confined in the single room because of her high risk of committing suicide. Sakura tried to talk to the nurses and doctors but they didn’t listen to her. Under the circumstances another patient Miki, who suffers from an eating disorder, leads her to understand the unknown world. But, Sakura is looking for the way to get back to the real world as soon as possible.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-10-20
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Neon Genesis Evangelion: Genesis 0:0’ - The Light from the Darkness
Overview: A promotional video for the film “Death and Rebirth.” Released on January 25, 1997, it contains an overview of the series’ plot, cast interviews, a music video for “Soul’s Refrain,” and several trailers for the film.
Genres: Documentary Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-01-25
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Shin Godzilla
Overview: When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-07-29
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Otakus in Love
Overview: Live-action adaptation of a madcap manga about art, opposites, love and a whole lot of cosplay.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-10-20
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Daicon Film's Return of Ultraman
Overview: The final fan-made Ultraman short film directed by Hideaki Anno. Based on The Return of Ultraman series.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-08-20
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Japan Sinks
Overview: In the aftermath of a major earthquake, scientists predict that Japan will sink into the sea. As further disasters follow, politicians plead with other countries to take refugees, while scientists struggle to save Japan itself.
Genres: Drama Thriller Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-07-15
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Last Letter
Overview: It is only at their sister's and mother's funeral when a woman meets her niece after many years. The niece is now a grown girl. The sister takes on the task of informing the deceased's friends of the death while the daughter cannot bring herself to symbolically accept the demise of her mother. In the midst of all this an old flame messages the sister to say he is still in love with her, but is he messaging the living sister or the dead one?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-01-17
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Orochi Strikes Again
Overview: The mythical eight-headed serpent Orochi was created by aliens, which invaded Earth in ancient times. 2000 years later, they dispatch the Orochi again to destroy Japan and the rest of the world. Only a team of the Japan Self-Defense Forces and a scientist can destroy it.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-09-03
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GAMERA 1999
Overview: Hideaki Anno's documentary about the making of Shusuke Kaneko's Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris. From concept to film, the documentary is a video diary of the film's production. Not included in the Arrow Video collection.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-02-20
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The Revolutionary Animator Kanada Yoshinori
Overview: MAG・ネット is a television program aired on NHK which delves into the realm of otaku culture on a weekly basis. They cover a wide range of things, from seiyuu, games, animators, manga artists, etc and do a very good job creating a professional and illuminating weekly documentary. This is a special on the work and life of japanese master animator Yoshinori "Iko" Kanada.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-08-15
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Document Love & Pop
Overview: Two shorts about the making of Hideaki Anno's movie "Love & Pop", one from the perspective of a bumbling assistant, and one from the perspective of a AV director filming a documentary about Anno but narrated by a worker from a bread factory
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-11-27
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Anno-san and Our Reckless Challenge: Japan Animator Expo
Overview: A documentary about Hideaki Anno's project, Japan Animator Expo.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-11-08
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Hideaki Anno: The Final Challenge of Evangelion
Overview: EVANGELION is coming to an end. NHK spent 4 years with exclusive access to director Hideaki Anno, documenting the creative process behind the final EVANGELION: 3.0+1.0 THRICE UPON A TIME. For the first time, the camera is allowed inside Anno's studio. The documentary attempts to capture why master filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki (STUDIO GHIBLI) describes him as one who sheds blood for his films.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-03-22
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Making of Cutie Honey
Overview: Behind the scenes of the 2004 film "Cutie Honey". Extra on Blu-ray Box.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-05-26
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Neon Genesis Evangelion: Theatrical Edition #26 Live Action Part (Special Rush Edit Version)
Overview: A live-action short film following Asuka and Misato from "Evangelion" as ordinary people outside of the universe of Evangelion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-06-25
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