1987
Noah’s Barks pages covering things relating to the year 1987.
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Bubblegum Crisis
The quintessential ’80s OVA, ‘Bubblegum Crisis’ is an aesthetic delight from one of anime’s peak eras for production values. (read more)
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Wicked City
Neo-noir meets neo-gore as Yoshiaki Kawajiri takes audiences to Wicked City, an atmospheric, criminal underground where demons stalk the streets for their next meal. Spend a night lost in its streets. (read more)
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Black Magic M-66
In a rarity, Masamune Shirow co-directs and co-writes this OVA adaptation of his own manga. In ‘Black Magic M-66,’ a sci-fi thriller, the military and a reporter must stop a murderous, rogue android. (read more)
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Super Dimension Fortress Macross Flash Back 2012
‘Macross: Flash Back 2012,’ a "live" music performance/recap of the original Macross series and its theatrical remake, is a tearjerking sendoff for one of anime’s greatest stories. (read more)
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RoboCop
I don’t believe in perfection in art. The only point in attempting it is to just raise the standards for perfection even higher. But if you forced me to pick some movies I think come close to perfection, RoboCop would be near top of the list. The fact that this movie tries so many things… (read more)
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Dancouga: God Bless Dancouga
Despite just barely being able to finish its original storyline, Dancouga receives a sequel movie. The creators even experiment with something new: production values. (read more)
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Opera
The most frustrating Dario Argento film I’ve seen yet, and that’s saying something. The premise of Opera is fantastic, but that’s almost as far as it gets. There’s the potential for a horror masterpiece here, so Argento’s usual quirks bring the everything down rather than give it more appeal. With an opera theme you’d expect… (read more)
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Manie-Manie: The Labyrinth Tales
An anime anthology movie containing three segments by different directors, ‘Manie-Manie: The Labyrinth Tales’ (‘Neo Tokyo’) isn’t quite up to the standards of another anime anthology movie, ‘Memories.’ (read more)
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Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei
Intended to promote the incredible Megami Tensei video game series, the Digital Devil Story OVA was doomed by adapting an infamous horror novel. (read more)
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Mission of Burma – “Forget” (1987)
Forget is a collection of pre-Vs. Mission of Burma demos. Raw and unrefined, yet appropriately so, making further evident Mission of Burma’s roots in punk, specifically of the hardcore variety. The average song tempo here is much faster than most anything on Vs. (think “How I Escaped My Certain Fate”), and vocals adopt the common hardcore… (read more)