Japan
countryJapanese science fiction cinema, from kaiju spectacle to philosophical anime.
Godzilla
Nuclear testing in the Pacific awakens an ancient, radioactive creature that rises from the sea and levels Tokyo, impervious to every weapon the Japanese military can bring against it. As the city burns, a reclusive scientist wrestles with whether to use a discovery of his own — one terrible enough to kill the monster, and terrible enough that he fears what humanity will do with it next.
Akira
Neo-Tokyo, 2019, thirty-one years after a psychic detonation leveled the old city. Teenage biker Kaneda's gang collides with a secret government program when his volatile friend Tetsuo awakens powers that could end the world — powers connected to a name the state buried underground: Akira.
Ghost in the Shell
New Port City, 2029. Major Motoko Kusanagi, a cyborg security officer whose body is entirely artificial, hunts an elusive hacker known as the Puppet Master — an entity that ghost-hacks human minds and rewrites their memories. But the closer she gets, the more the case turns inward: if her body is manufactured and her memories can be edited, what exactly is the 'ghost' in her shell that makes her her?