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Dark/Drama/2004 Titles


Titles that are dismal or gloomy in nature qualify for the dark category.


Title Rating Synopsis
C

Cossette no Shouzou
Rent "Who loves me so much that he would forsake his own dear life... could it be you?"
E

Elfen Lied
Rent Kouta has moved back to his childhood town to start his first year in college, and his female cousin, Yuka, has set him up to live in a big ten-room vacant house. Later on that night, the two encounter a naked girl with horns wandering on the beach. She appears to be very innocent and very helpless, so Kouta takes it upon himself to take her home to keep her safe, unaware that his guest has just escaped from an experimental lab and that both the police and military are searching for her, with orders to shoot on sight.
Elven Song Rent See Elfen Lied
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.
H
Hell Girl Buy See Jigoku Shoujo
I
Innocence Buy See Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence

Interlude
Buy For a close-knit foursome of high school friends, life is all about sleeping in class, strawberry milk, and after-class karaoke. However, our unnamed main protagonist is troubled by nightmares of death and disaster. Only when he begins to realize that his memories of people and events are different from those of Tamaki Maiko (named "Tama-chan" by her friends, "Mai-chan" by herself), Chimu and Harusa, his three female friends, does he begin to wonder. Later, when the waking dreams start.... a short moment of him seeing something that noone else sees....an attractive young lady, who stares back at him in amazement from an empty subway station, does he begin to wonder about his sanity. That evening, the four encounter and follow a shadow with no person, only to encounter a gang of stumbling zombies. And then he wakes up that morning from yet another bad dream, but the threads of reality have become a bit too frayed, and he begins to see a way in which he can travel over to the reality of his nightmares.
J

Jigoku Shoujo
Buy There is a website that can only be accessed at the stroke of midnight. Known as the Jigoku Tsushin, rumor has it that if you post a grudge there, the Jigoku Shoujo will appear and drag whomever torments you into the inferno.
L
Le Portrait de Petite Cossette Rent See Cossette no Shouzou
M

Monster
The Japanese Neurosurgeon Dr Kenzo Tenma had everything going for him in his position as lead surgeon of neurosurgery at a hospital in Düsseldorf, Germany. His genius as a surgeon had attracted, not only, the attention of the director of surgery at the hospital, but also an engagement to a beautiful Eva, the director's daughter. On one fateful dark evening, he defies the instructions of the director to abandon his current patient, a 12-year-old gunshot victim, to an almost certain death and refuses to performs surgery to save the life of the town mayor. He does what does what he thinks a true doctor should do and his young patient survives, the mayor dies, and in his decision, he has ignored the politics at the hospital, sacrificing all of his successes.
P
Petite Cossette Rent See Cossette no Shouzou
イノセンス GHOST IN THE SHELL(仮題) (Japanese) Buy See Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
インタールード (Japanese) Buy See Interlude
エルフェンリート Rent See Elfen Lied
コゼットの肖像 Rent See Cossette no Shouzou
Release Year
2005(1) 2003(1)
Type
Movie(1) OVA(2) TV(3)
Setting
Fantasy(3) Modern(2) Sci-Fi(3)
Keywords
Acquired Taste(1) Action(4) Action Drama(3) Adventure(1)
Artistic(2) Computers(1) Creepy(4) Cyberpunk(1)
Gun-action(2) High School(1) Horror(4) Middle School(1)
Mystery(3) Occult(2) Police(1) Psychics(1)
Romance(2) Sequel(1) Spiritual(1) Supernatural(3)
Surreal(3) Suspense(3) Tragedy(3) Video-game inspired(1)
Violent(3) Vulgar(1) Weird(1)

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