2004/Action Drama/Movie Titles

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Action Drama: (Genre) Much like "Action" (lots of shooting, explosions, and the like) except it has "Drama" thrown in as well.

Movie: (Type) Self-explanatory. This should only apply to movies released in the theater.

Title Rating Synopsis
A

Appleseed (2004)
It`s 2131 A.D.. Deunan Knute had been a soldier in the battlefields for most of her life. When the World War ends, she`s transported to the city of Olympus to live peacefully and finds out that, in an effort to protect the human race from future wars, humans have created the Bioriods, a geneticaly enhanced race of people that have restrained feelings and therefore cannot hurt each other.
B
Beyond the Clouds Rent See Kumo no Mukou, Yakusoku no Basho
Blade of the Phantom Master Rent See Shin Angyo Onshi
C

Cutie Honey (Live-Action Movie)
Rent When Honey's uncle gets kidnapped by the evil criminal gang known as "Panther Claw," she must use her magical powers of transformation (fueled by love) to save him. Meanwhile the same crime group has been responsible for a number of other crime sprees across Tokyo. In the process, Honey teams up with the seemingly cold police woman Natsuko Aki and hot shot journalist Seiji Hayami as well as battle the four "claws" of the Panther Claw gang to save her uncle and the rest of the city.
D
Das wandelnde Schloss Buy See Hauru no Uguko Shiro
G

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
Buy A sequel to the famous Puppet Master movie of 1995, Batou and Togusa now investigate the strange rebellious murders of sex robots against their masters. During their investigation, they encounter dangerous hackers, crazy Yakuza, and even bits of the Major materialized from the net. Batou is a living doll. His whole body, even his arms and legs are entirely man-made. What only remains are traces of his brain and memories of a woman named, Motoko. When the boundary between humans and machines has infinitely blurred, Humans have forgotten that they are humans. This is a promiscuous story of a lonesome "ghost" of a man, who nevertheless seeks to retain humanity.
H

Hauru no Uguko Shiro
Buy Early 20th century technology meets magic in a Western (probably French) country where Sophie, a young woman, is living and running a hatter shop. One of these magic users, the "Witch of the Wasteland", puts a hex on Sophie, making her instantly age by 70 years and unable to tell anyone about the reason. On her search for help Sophie ends up living in the moving castle of the infamous wizard Howl, together with his apprentice boy Marker, fire demon Calucipher, and the living scarecrow Turnip Head. And with time she is getting more and more dragged into a conflict of powerful wizards and a dreadful war. Will Sophie be able to break her curse, and what about the other inhabitants of this castle?

Hoshi wo Katta Hi
A strange story in an imaginary world, Iblard. A boy, Nona, is walking in a desert alone. He meets a strange woman, Ninya, and starts living in her farm. One day, Nona gets a seed of a star in return of vegetables, and decides to grow it.
Howl no Ugoku Shiro Buy See Hauru no Uguko Shiro
Howl's Moving Castle Buy See Hauru no Uguko Shiro
I
Innocence Buy See Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence

Inuyasha - Guren no Houraijima
Buy

Some fifty years ago, Inuyasha and Kikyou came upon and island where several hanyou children lived. However, four powerful self-proclaimed kami also lived there and before the island can disappear, they've left their mark upon Inuyasha in the form of a slash upon the back. At the same time, Sesshoumaru is marked after he followed some of his father's are slain. Now fifty years later, the island re-appears and Inuyasha, Sesshoumaru, and Kikyou find themselves drawn to this island. This time, they will not be allowed to leave unless they can slay all four of these kami. Can they win their freedom and that of the hanyou children, who've not aged in 50-years?

Inuyasha Movie 4: Guren no Houraijima Buy See Inuyasha - Guren no Houraijima
Inuyasha Movie 4: The Crimson Hourai Island Buy See Inuyasha - Guren no Houraijima
K

Kumo no Mukou, Yakusoku no Basho
Rent In an alternate reality, Japan is divided between the 'Union' (which has occupied the Hokkaido island) and the US-Japanese Alliance. Three mid-graders grow up in the northern province of Honshu, near the border between the two antagonistic forces and in the shadow of a strange spire that towers over the entire region. While the three teenagers work hard on their dream of building an aircraft to visit the spire on the Union side of the Tsugaru straits, time and school draw the three apart from one another.
Genre
Action(5) Action Comedy(1) Comedy(1) Cyberpunk(1)
Drama(4) Mystery(1) Romance(4) Steampunk(1)
Suspense(1)
Setting
Fantasy(5) Historical(1) Modern(1) Sci-Fi(5)
Demographic
Shounen(2)
Style
Acquired Taste(2) Artistic(1) Surreal(3) Weird(1)
Keywords
Adventure(3) Artificial Girls(1) Computers(1) Dark(2)
Evang*lion Clone(1) Friendship(1) Gun-action(1) Live Action(1)
Magic(1) Mecha(2) Music(1) Police(1)
Sequel(1) Spiritual(2) Swordplay(1) Time Travel(1)
Violent(1) War(2)
Type
OVA(1)
Release Year
2003(1)
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