Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
Tsutomu Isobe has 11 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2010s. 4 rank in the Top 10%, led by Cowboy Bebop: The Movie.
Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 2: Ghost Whispers
2013
Action · Animation
Memories
1995 · Movie · Voice
Top 7%Prime Video · Included
Trigun: Badlands Rumble
2010 · Movie · Actor
Top 8%Crunchyroll · Included
Monster
2004 · Series · Voice
Top 10%Netflix · Included
Naruto the Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow
2004 · Movie · Voice
Top 12%Netflix · Included
Black Lagoon
2006 · Series · Voice
Top 40%Crunchyroll · Included
King of Thorn
2010 · Movie · Voice
Top 41%Crunchyroll · Included
The year is 2071. Following a terrorist bombing, a deadly virus is released on the populace of Mars and the government has issued the largest bounty in history, for the capture of whoever is behind it. The bounty hunter crew of the spaceship Bebop; Spike, Faye, Jet and Ed, take the case with hopes of cashing in the bounty. However, the mystery surrounding the man responsible, Vincent, goes deeper than they ever imagined, and they aren't the only ones hunting him.
Dir. Shinichiro Watanabe · With Koichi Yamadera, Unsho Ishizuka, Aoi Tada
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
In a quicksand surrounded town called Makka, rumors spread of a legendary robber named Gasback is after the town. To protect it, Mayor Kepler has hired bounty hunters. These hunters have been following Gasback from town to town in hopes of getting the bounty. Vash the Stampede is in town, along with Meryl and Milly, along with the female bounty hunter Amelia and Nicholas D. Wolfwood.
Dir. Satoshi Nishimura · With Masaya Onosaka, Satsuki Yukino, Hiromi Tsuru
Kenzou Tenma, a Japanese brain surgeon in Germany, finds his life in utter turmoil after getting involved with a psychopath that was once a former patient.
With Hidenobu Kiuchi, Nozomu Sasaki, Mamiko Noto
as Doto Kazahana (voice) · Voice
Netflix · Included
Naruto is thrilled when he is sent on a mission to protect his favorite actress, Yukie Fujikaze, on the set of her new movie, The Adventures of Princess Gale. But when the crew ventures out to film in the icy, foreboding Land of Snow, Yukie mysteriously flees! Naruto and his squad set off to find her... unaware that three Snow Ninja lie in wait, with a sinister purpose that will force Yukie to face her hidden past!
Dir. Tensai Okamura · With Junko Takeuchi, Chie Nakamura, Noriaki Sugiyama
The world's boldest buccaneers set sail for the great Pirate Festival, where the Straw Hats join a mad-dash race to find Gol D. Roger's treasure. There's just one little problem: An old member of Roger's crew has a sinister score to settle.
Dir. Takashi Otsuka · With Mayumi Tanaka, Kazuya Nakai, Akemi Okamura
as Dimsdale Boiled
Rune Ballot is a down-and-out teen prostitute in Mardock City. One day, she's picked up by an ambitious casino manager named Shell who gives her everything she could want. Renewed by a false innocence, a false past, and now the false life Shell has given her, Ballot feels grateful. However, she can't help but be curious about why he's done so much for her, so she does some research about his past on a computer. This turns out to be a mistake which will change her life greatly. When Shell finds out what she's done, he attempts to burn her to death by blowing up her car.
Dir. Susumu Kudo · With Megumi Hayashibara, Norito Yashima, Hiroki Touchi
The story follows a team of pirate mercenaries known as the Lagoon Company, that smuggles goods in and around the seas of Southeast Asia in the early to mid 1990s. Their base of operations is located in the fictional harbor city of Roanapur in southeast Thailand near the border of Cambodia.
With Megumi Toyoguchi, Daisuke Namikawa, Tsutomu Isobe
A mysterious virus, nicknamed Medusa, is spreading around Japan, turning its victims into stone. Given the impossibility of finding an immediate cure, the government opts for cryopreserving a select group of patients until they come up with a solution. Kasumi, one of the chosen ones, has been asleep for years and her awakening, more than a bed of roses, is a bed of thorns, and happens in the midst of total chaos where monstrous creatures lie in wait all around.
Dir. Kazuyoshi Katayama · With Kana Hanazawa, Kohsei Hirota, Misaki Kuno
as Guillermo Garcia (voice) · Voice
Crunchyroll · Included
In the winter of 2117, a runaway vehicle crashes into the Public Safety Bureau Building. The driver is identified as Izumi Yasaka, a psychological counselor at the Sanctuary, a Latent Criminal Isolation Facility in Aomori Prefecture. But right before her interrogation, Inspector Mika Shimotsuki and Enforcer Nobuchika Ginoza are tasked with promptly escorting Yasaka back to Aomori. What awaits them there is a False Paradise.
Dir. Naoyoshi Shiotani · With Kenji Nojima, Tomokazu Seki, Kana Hanazawa
The magical kingdom of Lucis is home to the world’s last remaining Crystal, and the menacing empire of Niflheim is determined to steal it. King Regis of Lucis commands an elite force of soldiers called the Kingsglaive. Wielding their king’s magic, they fight to protect Lucis. As the overwhelming military might of the empire bears down, King Regis is faced with an impossible ultimatum – to marry his son, Prince Noctis to Princess Lunafreya of Tenebrae, captive of Niflheim, and surrender his lands to Niflheim rule. Although the king concedes, it becomes clear that the empire will stop at nothing to achieve their devious goals, with only the Kingsglaive standing between them and world domination.
Dir. Takeshi Nozue · With Go Ayano, Shioli Kutsuna, Ayumi Fujimura
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