'Paranoia Agent' strikes an attention-grabbing blow for the cause of imaginative animé.
Asian
Wonderful Days
Dazzling 2D animation and 3D backgrounds – but the plot and characters are strictly one-dimensional.
Shilje sanghwang
Real-time, warts-and-all portrait of an artist as an angry young man.
Tanin no kao
Trauma, identity and metamorphosis in the land of the rising sun (and the falling bomb).
Taegukgi hwinalrimyeo
This Korean epic is a grim requiem for a war not yet over.
Ren pi deng long
This Shaw Brothers' chopsocky-gore crossover is all revenge but little satisfaction.