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Hideyuki Hori has 10 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2000s. 6 rank in the Top 10%, led by Perfect Blue.
Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone
1989
Animation · Action

Rising pop star Mima Kirigoe quits singing to pursue a career as an actress. After she takes up a role on a popular detective show, her handlers and collaborators begin turning up murdered. Harboring feelings of guilt and haunted by visions of her former self, Mima's reality and fantasy meld into a frenzied paranoia.
Dir. Satoshi Kon · With Junko Iwao, Rica Matsumoto, Shiho Niiyama

The Sun God Abel returns to life, bent on punishing the humans and cleansing Earth from their presence. When Athena joins him, leaving humans to their fate, the Bronze Saints must defend the world in their greatest battle yet.
Dir. Shigeyasu Yamauchi · With Toru Furuya, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Hideyuki Hori

as Ikki (voice) · Voice
Hyoga is missing somewhere in Asgard... When Seiya and the others are looking for him, Athena is kidnapped and they have to rescue her from Dolvar and some mysterious warriors.
Dir. Shigeyasu Yamauchi · With Toru Furuya, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Koichi Hashimoto

Ages ago, the goddess Athena was served by fighters called Saints who channeled the power of the Cosmos within them. Now a youth named Seiya has trained to become a Saint himself by earning the mystical Cloth of Pegasus. He is joined by other Saints with Cloths of their own to fight for Athena.
With Toru Furuya, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Ryo Horikawa

Three back-to-back anime films by three different directors make up this sci-fi trilogy three years in the making.
Dir. Katsuhiro Otomo, Koji Morimoto, Tensai Okamura · With Tsutomu Isobe, Koichi Yamadera, Shozo Iizuka

as Ikki (voice) · Voice
The plot involves the coming of Lucifer to the Sanctuary, where his underlings systematically dispose of the surviving Gold Saints. Athena goes to Lucifer to ask for peace, placing herself in peril. The Bronze Saints must then come to her rescue, destroying Lucifer's Fallen Angels (Seima Tenshi in Japanese) in the process.
Dir. Masayuki Akehi · With Toru Furuya, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Koichi Hashimoto

as Ikki (voice) · Voice
In the first anime film of the Saint Seiya series, Seiya and the gang must defeat mysterious Ghost Knights to save the world from the pending resurrection of Eris, the Goddess of Chaos!
Dir. Kouzou Morishita · With Toru Furuya, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Hideyuki Hori

After the bloody battle against Hades, the goddess Athena and her saints are still recovering when they find themselves face to face with their newest and most formidable foe: the dreadful moon goddess Artemis. Artemis replaces Athena as the earth guardian deity and takes over the Sanctuary, turning Athena's Saints into her servants. Upon invading the Sanctuary, the Bronze Saints learn that Athena was banished by Artemis and decide to fight the moon goddess in order to rescue their true goddess and free the Earth from Artemis's ominous control.
Dir. Shigeyasu Yamauchi · With Toru Furuya, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Koichi Hashimoto

After the defeat of the demon lord Hadlar all of the monsters were unleashed from his evil will and moved to the island of Delmurin to live in peace. Dai is the only human living on the island. Having been raised by the kindly monster Brass, Dai's dream is to grow up to be a hero. He gets to become one when Hadlar is resurrected and the previous hero, Avan, comes to train Dai to help in the battle. But Hadlar, announcing that he now works for an even more powerful demon lord, comes to kill Avan. To save his students Avan uses a Self-Sacrifice spell to attack, but is unable to defeat Hadlar. When it seems that Dai and Avan's other student Pop are doomed a mark appears on Dai's forehead and he suddenly gains super powers and is able to fend off Hadlar. The two students then go off on a journey to avenge Avan and bring peace back to the world.
With Toshiko Fujita, Aya Hisakawa, Banjo Ginga

as Kyoya Izayoi (voice) · Voice
Ten Years ago, Genichiro Izayoi died trying to stop the sorcerer Rebi Ra, and as a result Shinjuku became a playground for demons. And now, the day approaches when Rebi Ra will complete his decade-long ritual to plunge the rest of the world into chaos! As Genichiro's son, it falls to Kyoya to venture into the heart of Shinjuku and put an end to the sorcerer his father couldn't beat. Can Kyoya exceed his father's legacy, or will the demons of Shinjuku create Hell on Earth?
Dir. Yoshiaki Kawajiri · With Hideyuki Hori, Hiromi Tsuru, Kiyoshi Kobayashi
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