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Ryusuke Ohbayashi has 5 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 1990s.
Ghost in the Shell
1995
Action · Animation
A mysterious suicide and a series of unmanned robot run-aways sparks off a Police investigation into the suspicious software on-board thousands of industrial robots around Tokyo.
Dir. Mamoru Oshii · With Mina Tominaga, Toshio Furukawa, Ryusuke Ohbayashi
Lain—driven by the abrupt suicide of a classmate—logs on to the Wired and promptly loses herself in a twisted mass of hallucinations, memories, and interconnected-psyches.
With Kaori Shimizu, Yoko Asada, Ayako Kawasumi
A Japanese police unit who use giant anthropomorphic robots (called Labors) is caught up in a political struggle between the civilian authorities and the military when a terrorist act is blamed on an Air Force jet. With the aid of a government agent, the team gets close to a terrorist leader to stop things from going out of control when after the military is impelled to impose martial law.
Dir. Mamoru Oshii · With Mina Tominaga, Toshio Furukawa, Ryusuke Ohbayashi
as Soun Tendo (voice) · Voice
When Prince Kirin of the 7 Lucky Gods shows up at the Tendo dojo looking for his bride-to-be, guess who's accidentally holding the scroll that signifies his future mate? Why, Akane, of course, and the rest of the Ranma crew is forced to take a boat to China in order to save her from the horrors of marriage and a diet of pickled vegetables.
Dir. Shuuji Iuchi · With Kappei Yamaguchi, Megumi Hayashibara, Noriko Hidaka
It is A.D. 2009 and the human race is caught in a war between giant humanoids, male Zentrans and female Meltrans. Returning from the edge of our solar system after making a space fold, the SDF-1 Macross makes the long journey back to Earth with survivors of South Ataria Island.
Dir. Shoji Kawamori, Noboru Ishiguro · With Mari Iijima, Arihiro Hase, Mika Doi
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