Osamu Dezaki Movies

This full-length feature film reinterprets the story told in the Air anime TV series. It tells the story of a girl named Misuzu, who despite her sweet personality and angelic beauty, suffers from an unexplained illness. In her search for answers about her condition, Misuzu learns about a mythical, winged princess named Kanna, and meets a young man who just might know the real story behind the legend. ~ Cammila Collar, Rovi

It has been several years since the release of The Professional: Golgo 13, the first appearance of the international assassin and shadowy man of mystery in feature films. That movie's sequel, Golgo 13: Queen Bee, paints Golgo 13 -- aka Duke Togo -- in a somewhat different light by pitting him against a female assassin who is as passionate as Golgo 13 is stoic. The result is equal parts fire and ice, mixed liberally and sometimes violently. The running mate of the man likely to win the upcoming U.S. presidential race hires Golgo 13 to protect the candidate by tracking down a vicious female assassin. Golgo 13's investigation of the woman, known only as Queen Bee, uncovers much more than what he's been spoon-fed. After discerning the underpinnings of Queen Bee's loathing for the politicians, Golgo 13 realizes that she will stop at nothing to eliminate them. The Professional must call into question his own motives in carrying out his contract and pick his way carefully through the resulting quagmire. ~ Tom Carroll, Rovi

This feature-length adaptation of the Japanese animated science-fiction series Space Adventure Cobra features an English-language soundtrack with Barbara Goodson as the voice of Jane Flower. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Osamu Dezaki gives his father Osamu Terzuka's wildly popular Black Jack comic book series a slick, 1990s look for this feature-length animé production. Black Jack, sporting a shock of black and white hair, a scar on his cheek, and a long flowing cape, is an ace doctor who never got around to getting a license. During the 1996 Olympics, a group of athletes smash records so resoundingly that the press start calling them a "super race." At the same time, Blackjack is summoned to help a dying young girl, a prodigy whose art is prized throughout the world. In spite of his reputed skills, he cannot save the lass from her mysterious affliction. During her autopsy, he learns that she had the physiology of a 90-year-old woman. Later, Jo Carol Braine, a brilliant manager of the St. Joel Research Center gets Black Jack to visit the company to heal the "super race" athletes who are suffering from the mysterious "Moira Syndrome" -- the same disease that struck his previous half-sized client. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi

Duke Togo is Golgo 13, a stone-faced, stone-cold killer for hire. Utterly amoral and usually expressionless, he is known for always getting the job done, even against impossible odds. Which is precisely what he does when he cleanly kills the son of a wealthy industrialist named Lawson on a crowded yacht with a single bullet. Duke takes on another contract against a Sicilian Mafia boss, while Lawson targets Duke to avenge the killing of his son. Thus begins a chain reaction of murder and revenge as Duke fends off the Mafia and corrupt U.S. government agents, all the while having to deal with an increasingly bizarre array of Lawson's assassins. As he battles his way to the top of Lawson's corporate tower, the wife of the slain Lawson has to wonder: Why is her father-in-law obsessed with hunting down Duke, rather than the person who hired him? ~ Emru Townsend, Rovi