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Who works there

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Contact & details

TypeArt Department · Film
LocationJapan
Websiteanimate.net
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Statuslikely activesite live, last 2017 i
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How their work is rated

Average rating
7.7IMDb
4.0directory 6.28.0

11 rated titles, weighted by votes

Awards

2 wins from 2 nominations across all awards

Ninja Scroll poster
Highest rated
Ninja Scroll
1993
7.844,239 votes
Battle Arena Toshinden poster
Lowest rated
Battle Arena Toshinden
1996
4.6250 votes
Mostly
animation, action, drama
Active
1987–2008
Rotten Tomatoes
90%
Best known for
Ninja Scroll

Ratings and awards from OMDb, matched by title and year across 26 of 51 titles. Unmatched titles are left out rather than guessed. Oscars, Emmys and BAFTAs are itemised; other awards sit in the totals. IMDb counts wins separately from losing nominations, so nominations here is wins plus losses.

Their television work

Series
258 seasons

1989–2008

Television rating
7.0IMDb

Their films average 7.8, so the television rates 0.8 lower.

Networks
  • TV Tokyo1

Across 11 series matched to TMDB, 75 episodes.

Longest runningKnight Hunters · 2 seasons

Series identified from OMDb, falling back to the credit type where OMDb had no match. Season counts are each show’s full run, not only the seasons this company was credited on.

Credits24 of 53

23 films · 27 TV titles

Titles per year7 titles · busiest 1997 with 2

7 titles across 12 years, averaging 0.6 a year. The last five years average 0.0 a year, below their long-run rate. 8 of those 12 years carry no credit on file.

Quality over time10 rated titles · bigger dots carry more votes
468their average 7.719891996

1 of 10 rated titles sit above their 7.7 average, which is weighted by votes: the most seen titles pull it up.

Who they work with

Directors
  • Hiroyuki Ebata2
Writers
  • Clamp2
Notable cast
  • Kôichi Yamadera3
  • Aya Hisakawa3
  • Tara Sands2
  • Hiromi Tsuru2
  • Ryô Horikawa2
Genres
  • Animation25 of 25
  • Action13 of 25
  • Drama9 of 25
  • Fantasy6 of 25
  • Adventure5 of 25

Names appearing on two or more of Animate Film’s produced titles, across the 25 matched to OMDb. Cast is the top-billed few OMDb lists per title, so it is notable cast rather than a full cast list. A title can carry more than one genre, so the genre counts overlap.

Works with12 companies

Companies that appear alongside Animate Film on the same productions. The number is how many titles they share.

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