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Foundation date 23 august 1983
Bandai Visual Co., Ltd. (バンダイビジュアル株式会社, Bandai Bijuaru Kabushiki Gaisha), is a Japanese anime, film production and distribution enterprise, established by Bandai Company, Limited and a subsidiary of Bandai Namco Holdings, Inc., which is based in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Since the reorganisation of Bandai Namco Holdings in 2006, Bandai Visual now heads the group's Visual and Music Content Strategic Business Unit. Its subsidiaries include the Emotion Music Company, Limited, (whose logos also include the Moai from Easter Island), and Lantis Company, Limited music publishing labels.
It is involved in the production and distribution of several anime titles, including those it has directly produced itself and anime series produced by the anime studio Sunrise, a subsidiary of Bandai.
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Filmography of Bandai Visual (39 films)
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, 1h36Directed by Mamoru Oshii, Mizuho Nishikubo
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Animation
Themes Feminist films, Films about computing, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Cyberpunk films, Dystopian films, Children's films, Golem
Actors Akio Ōtsuka, Yutaka Nakano, Atsuko Tanaka, Kōichi Yamadera, Hiroaki Hirata, Naoto Takenaka
The story is loosely based on Ghost in the Shell manga chapter "Robot Rondo" (with elements of "Phantom Fund"). Opening in 2032, Public Security Section 9 cybernetic operative Batou is teamed with Togusa, an agent with very few cybernetic upgrades, following the events of Ghost in the Shell.
, 1h20Directed by Morio Asaka
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Animation, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Sakura Tange, Aya Hisakawa, Onosaka Masaya, Motoko Kumai, Junko Iwao, Tomokazu Seki
Eriol Hiiragizawa's house is demolished to make way for a new amusement park in Tomoeda, activating a Clow Card, The Nothing, hidden underneath the house. After the park is built, she hides in its clock tower and begins secretly stealing the other cards from their mistress Sakura Kinomoto. Sakura faces her own challenges, having the leading role in a play her school is putting on as part of Tomoeda's annual festival, and her own feelings towards her friend Syaoran Li, who confessed to her before returning to Hong Kong. Sakura and her best friend Tomoyo Daidoji visit the amusement park, where Sakura senses a magical aura. Running into the park, she bumps into Syaoran and Meiling Li who returned for a visit, though Tomoyo and Meiling planned it to get Sakura to confess to Syaoran.
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (1999)
, 1h42Directed by Hiroyuki Okiura
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Action, Animation, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films, Wolves in film, Dystopian films, Alternate history films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Yoshikatsu Fujiki, Hiroyuki Kinoshita, Eri Sendai, Yoshisada Sakaguchi, Tamio Ōki
The story is set in a parallel 1950s Japan, in which Germany has conquered Japan. It focuses on Kazuki Fuse, a member of the elite Kerberos Panzer Cops, a metropolitan antiterror unit. Fuse confronts his own humanity when he fails to shoot a young female terrorist. The girl detonates a bomb in front of him, only killing herself. The incident damages the reputation of the unit and Kazuki is punished. He visits the ashes of the dead girl and meets Kei Amemiya, who claims to be the elder sister of the victim. They develop a relationship. Kei is eventually revealed to not be the suicide bomber's sister but instead a former bomb courier and a honey trap acting on behalf of the Special Unit's rival division Public Security.
G-Saviour (1999)
, 1h30Directed by Graeme Campbell
Origin Japon
Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Political films, Dystopian films, Space opera
Actors Brennan Elliott, Enuka Okuma, Blu Mankuma, Kenneth Welsh, Brendan Beiser
U.C. 223. La Fédération s’est écroulée depuis longtemps et ses différentes nations qui la composaient ont retrouvé leur indépendance, notamment les colonies spatiales qui ont justement effacé fièrement ce statut de colonie pour devenir des entités à part entière. Deux pouvoirs ont émergé de cette nouvelle organisation géopolitique : le Congress of Settlement Nations (CONSENT), alliance impérialiste qui incorpore largement l’ancienne Fédération et les colonies Sides 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, et la Settlement Freedom League regroupant le reste. Las, le CONSENT souffrant d’une grave crise alimentaire, il décide de s’emparer par la force ou de détruire les technologies plus avancées détenues par la nation neutre Side 8. Mark Curran, un ancien pilote de mobile suit, rejoint alors un groupe de résistants, les Illuminatis, pour contrer CONSENT.
Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie (1999)
, 1h20Directed by Morio Asaka
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Animation
Themes Children's films
Actors Sakura Tange, Megumi Hayashibara, Aya Hisakawa, Motoko Kumai, Kotono Mitsuishi, Junko Iwao
Sakura Kinomoto, Cardcaptor of the Clow Cards, successfully seals the Arrow Card with help from her friends Syaoran Li, Kero, Tomoyo Daidoji, and Meiling Li. That night, Sakura experiences a strange dream where two pieces of cloth pull her underwater. After school ends for spring break, Sakura and Tomoyo visit the "Twin Bells" shop where Sakura participates in a lottery to win a vacation to Hong Kong. As Sakura reaches for a lottery ball, one magically flies into her hand, the winning ball for the vacation. Sakura goes with Tomoyo, Kero, her big brother Toya and his best friend Yukito Tsukishiro, who Sakura has a crush on.
Slayers Return (1996)
, 1h1Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Actors Maria Kawamura, Megumi Hayashibara, Akiko Hiramatsu, Kenji Utsumi, Akio Ōtsuka, Kazuki Yao
Young sorceresses Lina Inverse and Naga the Serpent travel across the world in search of adventure and money, bickering with each other along the way. They meet a girl named Saleena, who seems to be a random victim of the result of their petty food fight that ended with a powerful spell explosion. Truth is she has been already injured since when she escaped from her village of Biaz, where the evil organization Zein enslaved the population. The usually selfish Lina inexplicably agrees to help them: she has heard about an ancient elven treasure made of the nearly indestructible magical metal of orihalcon and she would like to put her hands on it. Because of Lina's suspicious behavior, the equally greedy Naga decides to follow them.
, 1h31Genres Science fiction, Action
Themes Sports films
Actors Reiko Kataoka
Popular wrestler Jushin Thunder Liger is having fits of dizziness and headaches, as he recalls childhood memories of being chased by demons. Helping him is a woman photographer named Miki Aizawa (Reiko Kataoka).