Directing

Ken Ando

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Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of EvangelionNeon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion · 1997
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
★ 8.31997
MovieAnimationScience Fiction
SEELE orders an all-out attack on NERV, aiming to destroy the Evas before Gendo can advance his own plans for the Human Instrumentality Project. Shinji is pushed to the limits of his sanity as he is forced to decide the fate of humanity.
Revival of EvangelionRevival of Evangelion · 1998
Revival of Evangelion
★ 7.71998
MovieActionAnimation
Revival of Evangelion is a re-edit of the Neon Genesis Evangelion films , released in 1998. It consists of Evangelion: Death (which was essentially a clip show that summarized the entire regular series) and The End of Evangelion , re-edited together to make a version that tells the entire story of Evangelion. It is considered to be the final form of the Evangelion films.
EVANGELION: DEATH (TRUE)²EVANGELION: DEATH (TRUE)² · 1998
EVANGELION: DEATH (TRUE)²
★ 6.81998
MovieAnimationScience Fiction
A highly experimental film presenting a story out of chronological order taking place 15 years after a near-apocalyptic catastrophe, about four traumatized 14 year olds who are tasked with piloting massive humanoid decisive weapons called Evangelion, the psychologically maladjusted adults who handle and command them, and the events and forces that affect them or which they take part in as they engage massive hostile invaders known as "Angels."
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death and RebirthNeon Genesis Evangelion: Death and Rebirth · 1997
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death and Rebirth
★ 7.41997
MovieAnimationDrama
Originally a collection of clips from the Neon Genesis Evangelion TV series, Death was created as a precursor to the re-worked ending of the series. Rebirth was intended as that re-worked ending, but after production overruns Rebirth became only the first half of the first part of The End of Evangelion, with some minor differences.
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Theatrical Edition #26 Live Action Part (Special Rush Edit Version)Neon Genesis Evangelion: Theatrical Edition #26 Live Action Part (Special Rush Edit Version) · 2003
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Theatrical Edition #26 Live Action Part (Special Rush Edit Version)
★ 8.52003
MovieDrama
A live-action short film following Asuka and Misato from "Evangelion" as ordinary people outside of the universe of Evangelion.
Ar Tonelico: The Girl Who Sings at the End of the WorldAr Tonelico: The Girl Who Sings at the End of the World · 2006
Ar Tonelico: The Girl Who Sings at the End of the World
★ 8.52006
MovieAdventureAnimation
At a time when Orica is saddened over her inability to fulfill her role as a Lavateil, or one who can control magical powers through singing Hymns, Laina's airship comes crashing down upon her from the sky. Both of them search for an engineer to repair his airship, meeting Cruze. In the process, Laina inadvertently teaches Orica that the key to singing a successful Hymn is to want to help others from the bottom of one's heart.
Frieren: Beyond Journey's EndFrieren: Beyond Journey's End · 2023
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
★ 8.82023
SeriesAnimationAction & Adventure
After the party of heroes defeated the Demon King, they restored peace to the land and returned to lives of solitude. Generations pass, and the elven mage Frieren comes face to face with humanity's mortality. She takes on a new apprentice and promises to fulfill old friends' dying wishes. Can an elven mind make peace with the nature of life and death? Frieren embarks on her quest to find out.
AriaAria · 2005
Aria
★ 8.62005
SeriesAnimationSci-Fi & Fantasy
Set in the early 24th century against the backdrop of the city of Neo Venezia on the planet Mars. No longer the barren red planet, Mars has been flooded, inhabited and is something of a tourist hub for those looking for rest, relaxation and a gondola ride – the primary mode of travel in Neo Venezia. The Undines are professional gondoliers, tour guides for the people passing through. Akari Mizunashi is an Undine in training and this is a piece of her story.

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Sengoku BASARA: Samurai KingsSengoku BASARA: Samurai Kings · 2009
Sengoku BASARA: Samurai Kings
★ 6.12009
SeriesAnimationAction & Adventure
During the Sengoku period, there are many factions constantly at war. One of these is led by a one-eyed man named Date Masamune and another by the imposing Takeda Shingen. The latter has a fiercely loyal subordinate named Sanada Yukimura who goes head to head against Date Masamune multiple times, but the battles between them tend to get interrupted. One such battle occurs when both men try to go after another leader named Imagawa, and they’re forced to break off their heated duel when Imagawa attempts to flee the scene with his body doubles. Yukimura and Masamune go after separate Imagawas, but all of the doubles are killed by a third party, and when their paths cross again, they are in front of the menacing Oda Nobunaga and his army. It was Nobunaga’s subordinates that killed those body doubles, and Nobunaga himself proceeds to kill the real Imagawa with a shotgun blast to the head.

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The Silver GuardianThe Silver Guardian · 2017
The Silver Guardian
★ 6.22017
SeriesAction & AdventureAnimation
Lu Shuiyin (Riku Suigin in Japanese) is a master of gaming, a skill only known to his classmate Lu Lian (Riku Lin in Japanese). One day, Shuiyin receives a device from Lu Lian for a tomb raiding online game. While Shuiyin is excited to receive the device, Lian is suddenly kidnapped. Shuiyin touches the device that was left behind, pulling him inside the game and trapping him there. What is the imaginary world inside the device? What will Shuiyin find there? It is a world where two groups of people fight over the power of the gods, which originates from the tomb the mother goddess Pangu (Bango in Japanese). The two groups are the tomb raiders and the tomb protectors. The device Shuiyin received from Lian is called the Monolith, and it allows a normal gamer to go near the tomb. The tomb raiding group plans its attack by recruiting common people in the name of gaming. Shuiyin, as the final tomb protector, must fight against the raiders in order to save Lian.

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