Bloody Escape: Bats Out of Hell

Rising pop star Mima Kirigoe quits singing to pursue a career as an actress. After she takes up a role on a popular detective show, her handlers and collaborators begin turning up murdered. Harboring feelings of guilt and haunted by visions of her former self, Mima's reality and fantasy meld into a frenzied paranoia.

Runtime

1h 21m

Director

Satoshi Kon

Cast

Junko Iwao, Rica Matsumoto, Shinpachi Tsuji

A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.

Runtime

2h 5m

Director

Hayao Miyazaki

Cast

Keiko Yokozawa, Mayumi Tanaka, Minori Terada

In the future, the inmates of a private underground prison are computer-controlled with cameras, dream readers, and devices that can cause pain or death. John and his illegally pregnant wife Karen are locked inside "The Fortress" but are determined to escape before the birth of their baby.

Runtime

1h 35m

Director

Stuart Gordon

Cast

Christopher Lambert, Kurtwood Smith, Loryn Locklin

When Sosuke, a young boy who lives on a clifftop overlooking the sea, rescues a stranded goldfish named Ponyo, he discovers more than he bargained for. Ponyo is a curious, energetic young creature who yearns to be human, but even as she causes chaos around the house, her father, a powerful sorcerer, schemes to return Ponyo to the sea.

Runtime

1h 40m

Director

Hayao Miyazaki

Cast

Yuria Kozuki, Hiroki Doi, George Tokoro

In the year 298 of the Divine Era, elementary school girls Washio Sumi, Nogi Sonoko, and Minowa Gin are tasked with an important mission. They are to become heroes and fight Vertex, a mysterious enemy that is attacking Shinju-sama, the god tree that protects Shikoku, the only area in the world that is still habitable. What they don't k...

Runtime

48m

Cast

Suzuko Mimori, Kana Hanazawa, Rina Sato