Category: Fantasy
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The Age of the Earth
Drawing inspiration from a poem penned by Castro Alves, this film vividly captures the political, cultural, and intellectual climate of Brazil during the late 1970s. At its core, the story revolves around four distinctive embodiments of Christ’s image: a black man, a soldier, an Indian, and a guerrilla fighter. These courageous individuals, hailed as the…
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Xanadu
A beautiful muse inspires an artist and his older friend to convert a dilapidated auditorium into a lavish rollerskating club.
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Full Moon High
High-school quarterback Tony Walker is bitten by a werewolf and transforms into a growling beast that hungrily chases down beautiful girls.
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Bremen 4: Angels in Hell
The story concerns four animals fighting to expel war from the earth. Though based on the “Band of Bremen (Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten)”, Tezuka Osamu’s fans could easily associate the story with “The Amazing Three.” The cat, dog, donkey, and chicken who transform into human beings with the power of spacemen and fight to save the…
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The Fantastic Adventures of Unico
When Unico, a young unicorn, is banished from his family by a pantheon of manipulative gods, his powers of joy and happiness are tested as he explores the lands with his friends Beezle and Katy.
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Avengers from Hell
Three macabre short stories about gambling, vengeance and homicide.
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Thrilling Bloody Sword
The daughter of a queen and a comet is abandoned by her family. One day, she comes across a prince fighting a multi-headed dragon and falls in love with him. However, some wizards try everything to keep them apart.
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Electric Angel
A typical experimental film, in which a variety of audiovisual techniques are used to create the sense of polymorphic eroticism as developed by European and Mediterranean cinematography of the 20th century. Combining the methods of “animation” and “live action”, this intricate work embodies the idea of an “ars combinatoria”. The structure is loose, with neither…
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Day Dream
Loosely based on a 1926 short story by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, the film opens as an artist and a young woman are in a dentist’s waiting room. Though he is attracted to the woman, he says nothing to her. They are later in the same examining room. When he is given an anesthetic, he begins to…
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Abbot White
After 30 years of living in a box buried six feet underground, the so-called Devil Claw breaks from his grave and takes over the body of a monk (Yuen Yat Chor), whom he uses to get revenge on the men who buried him decades before. With supernatural abilities to fend off blows, become invisible and…
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Phra Rot-Meri
Twelve daughters are abandoned by their parents, who are too poor to educate so many children. The twelve daughters are rescued by a “Yak” woman who promises to take care about them as her own daughters. She deceived them and force them to drink a potion that transform the young girls into beautiful maidens.
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School in the Crosshairs
Mitamura Yuka is a normal, shy high school student. Except for the fact that she has psychic powers. When a new student with similar powers begins to show her skills, creating a force of psychic Nazi student enforcers, Yuka and her friends vow to stop her. But behind it all is a mysterious force that…
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The Man on the Golden Horse
A romantic story based on the Ural fairytales. The chiefs of two brotherly peoples living in the lands of the Southern Urals had a son – the rich man Altynduga and a daughter – the beautiful Ai. One day they met and fell in love with each other. Meanwhile, the ruler of the kingdom of…
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Khalif the Stork
A rich caliph is leading a careless life. One day an evil wizard sells him a magic potion that can turn human into any animal he wants. The only condition: one mustn’t laugh.
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Samurai Reincarnation
After surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for ignoring the pleas of believers. He sells his soul to Satan and receives the power to resurrect the dead to join him in a murderous rampage.
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A Fairy Tale Told at Night
A story based on the tales “The Marble Heart” and “The Spessart Inn” by Wilhelm Hauff.
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Phoenix the Ninja
A female ninja avenges her mother’s death.