Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (1999)
Directed by Hiroyuki Okiura
A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the suicide bombing of a young girl and is forced to undergo retraining. However, unbeknownst to him, he becomes a key player in a dispute between rival police divisions, as he finds himself increasingly involved with the sister of the girl he saw die.
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Written by Mamoru Oshii, director of the cult favorite "Ghost in the Shell," and directed by Hiroyuki Okiura, who worked as a key animator on "Akira," "Jin-Roh" offers a violent but compelling vision of what an animated feature can be.
Written by Mamoru Oshii and directed by Hiroyuki Okiura, both of Ghost in the Shell fame, Jin-Roh begins in an alternate-reality Tokyo in which the Nazis won World War II.
There's even an extended animated sequence created by the pioneering Japanese anime house Production I.G. ("Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade," "Blood: The Last Vampire").