While anime sometimes gets criticized for its cutesy approach, the medium is far broader than many people realize. Something that the somber, bleak, and altogether poignant film Jin-Roh attests. The ...

Released in reverse chronological order, all 3 films feature Japan's elite Kerberos police squad and are part of the greater Kerberos Saga multimedia series.

"Jin-Roh," a 3-year-old poli-military Japanese flick only now washing up on our shores, is animation at its most traumatized, bloody, discursive, allegorical and disheartened. The film stars ...

Released in reverse chronological order, all 3 films feature Japan's elite Kerberos police squad and are part of the greater Kerberos Saga multimedia series.

The animated "Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade" from Japan may come as a surprise to stateside viewers used to the exquisitely detailed machinery of massive proportions clashing and exploding in elaborate ...