The best Isamu Tanonaka’s fantasy movies

Isamu Tanonaka

Isamu Tanonaka

19/07/1932- 13/01/2010
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Isamu Tanonaka’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Isamu Tanonaka.

Persona 3 the Movie: #3 Falling Down

Persona 3 the Movie: #3 Falling Down
6.5/10
The season turns to autumn. The fight of the protagonist and his group S.E.E.S. with the strange monsters called ‘Shadows’ is getting closer to the end. Makoto and his allies engage in life-or-death battles with Shadows in order to end the Dark Hour. Through the battles, some must face the deaths of friends and family, some must notice what precious things must be protected, and some must find meaning in the battles that have occurred. In front of Makoto, the mysterious transfer student Ryouji Mochizuki appears. When the group greets a new morning, the gears of fate begin to turn. A fight revolving around each of the heroes' bonds begins...

Persona 3 the Movie: #1 Spring of Birth

Persona 3 the Movie: #1 Spring of Birth
6.6/10
In the spring, male student Makoto Yuki transfers to Gekkoukan High School. However, as he heads to his new dormitory, listening to the music on his headphones, he is stopped. More precisely, time has stopped, and the people who were around him turn into coffins. Makoto learns that this period of time hidden between the minute of midnight is called the Dark Hour, a time when monsters called Shadows appear. Suddenly made the leader of his fellow classmates Yukari and Junpei by his upperclassmen Mitsuru and Akihiko, Makoto must learn empathy, his connection to his comrades, and the meaning of death. With the power of his Evoker aimed at his head, Makoto fights against the Shadows threatening to attack his world from the mysterious tower of Tartarus.

Persona 3 the Movie: #2 Midsummer Knight's Dream

Persona 3 the Movie: #2 Midsummer Knight's Dream
6.7/10
After realizing the value of life and the importance of his own allies, Makoto finally got his smile back. As spring turns into summer, he finds himself learning more about those comrades and getting closer to them. He even meets new friends, including Aegis, an anti-Shadow android, Ken, a grade-schooler who seeks to get revenge for his late mother, and Koromaru, a dog who can use a Persona. Makoto wishes that everything will continue just as they are. However, little by little, the pieces and people in Makoto's new, happy life begin to fall apart, and he is forced to suffer the loss that comes with it.

Persona 3 the Movie: #4 Winter of Rebirth

Persona 3 the Movie: #4 Winter of Rebirth
7.1/10
"The time of destruction is coming ever closer without a doubt. It cannot be stopped." To know death, to gaze at death, to face death. Makoto and his allies have grown through the many meetings and partings they have experienced. Their fight might not be for the sake of the world, but for themselves. Even so, they have continued to fight, believing that there are peaceful days waiting at the end of the battle. However, a boy says that destruction is the fate that humanity must shoulder. The boy they believed to be their friend tells them the truth of the situation without an emotion on his face. The season changes to winter. Makoto makes a decision in order to greet the spring that is waiting beyond...

Spooky Kitaro: Youkai Japan Rally 3D

Spooky Kitaro: Youkai Japan Rally 3D
A 3D film attraction featured at Sanrio Puroland. It was produced by Toei as a tie-in to the 2007 Spooky Kitaro anime adaptation.

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
5.7/10

Dr. Slump: "Hoyoyo!" Space Adventure

Dr. Slump:
7.1/10
Arale, Senbei, Gatchan, Akane, Taro and Peasuke go on a space adventure to save Midori from Dr. Mashirito after tricking her into coming back to her home planet to marry him.

Slayers Premium

Slayers Premium
6.7/10
Lina and Gourry visited the town in a certain beach. In that town, a mysterious incident which is that the person who had eaten the octopus was not able to speak the languages other than the octopus language happened frequently. And, Gourry who does not know the incident eats slices of raw octopus, and he cannot speak words other than the octopus language. Ameria and Zelgadiss who came there by chance are involved in the trouble, too and the fight with the clan of the octopus which lives in the beach starts.

Spooky Kitaro: The Great Sea Beast

Spooky Kitaro: The Great Sea Beast
5.9/10
Kitaro is a yōkai boy born in a cemetery and, aside from his mostly decayed father, the last living member of the Ghost Tribe (幽霊族 yūrei zoku?). He is missing his left eye, but his hair usually covers the empty socket. He fights for peace between humans and yōkai, which generally involves protecting the former from the wiles of the latter.

Spooky Kitaro: The Great Yokai War

Spooky Kitaro: The Great Yokai War
The second movie based on the 1985 TV anime.

Spooky Kitaro

Spooky Kitaro
Movie based on the 1985 TV anime.

Spooky Kitaro: Ghost Nighter

Spooky Kitaro: Ghost Nighter
A film adaptation of the 'Spooky Kitaro' story of the same name.

Spooky Kitaro: Yokai Express! The Phantom Train

Spooky Kitaro: Yokai Express! The Phantom Train
Kitarou, a ghost, spends his afterlife helping humans in need of his skills. He thwarts the plans of evil spirits who live to torment humanity. In this episode The Western demons hijacked the Phantom Train. Kitaro and his friends must stop this crime.

Spooky Kitaro: Japan Explodes!!

Spooky Kitaro: Japan Explodes!!
4.7/10
Movie based on the 2007 TV anime with an original plot.

Ursa Minor Blue

Ursa Minor Blue
7/10
This adventurous story of a boy named Uri and an old man takes place in the cosmic Milky Way where the starfish live. This is the tale of their fantasy journey in search of the mysterious monster fish.

Spooky Kitaro

Spooky Kitaro
6.3/10
Kitarō, a ghost, spends his afterlife helping humans in need of his skills. He thwarts the plans of evil spirits who live to torment humanity. A retelling of episodes 5-6 from the 1968 TV anime.

Spooky Kitaro: The All Seeing Eye

Spooky Kitaro: The All Seeing Eye
Yasui is the president of a large company. After the war, he wandered into the world of evil spirits, where he obtained a hidden treasure "Geomancer's Eye". With the magical power of this treasure Yasui received enormous wealth. But the great miracles have a great price... A retelling of episode 37 from the 1971 TV anime.

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