Shamo - Recommendations

• OVA (2 eps)
• 1990

• TV (13 eps)
• 2006 - 2007

Kai and Hashim enjoy hanging out at Penny's Cafe with their rest of their gang, the Saru 'tribe'. Good-natured and fun-loving, the Sarus take in meek and geeky Tamiyama who wishes to join their gang, appointing him as secretary for lack of other obvious abilities. Befriended by Kai and Hashim, Tamiyama doesn't have time to get to grips with tribe life before disaster strikes the Sarus: a leading fighter of a rival gang is sent to assassinate Saru's leader. The assassin turns out to be Mera, Kai's friend growing up. Brandishing a baseball bat against Mera's katana, the two friends now find themselves as rivals in an escalating war between the tribes...

• OVA (1 ep)
• 1988

Six months ago, a massive earthquake sunk a massive Japanese city into the ground, burying it from the outside world. The survivors split themselves into three groups: A, with normal salarymen; B, with criminals and lunatics led by the towering Mad Saurus; and C, an all-female group. However, once food supplies began to dwindle the once-kind men of the A group brutally gang-raped the women of the C group, causing the ladies to seal themselves up deep within the ruins. Now, the A group is working towards digging their way to the surface when they unearth Violence Jack, a massive giant. Though the A group wants Jack to help defend them against the B group, he ultimately chooses to protect the C group against all of the others. A bloody civil war approaches - will anyone escape alive?

• OVA (5 eps)
• 1986 - 1988

Yuko Kusaka is a Japanese journalist sent to Brazil to do a report on the gold rush phenomenon that seems to be making many people rich from night to day. Rumors say that among the many "garimpeiros" (gold diggers) currently on the Amazon forest, there is a Japanese known as Rio Baraki. Reaching their destination, her crew member is promptly attacked and she is raped as a warning to stop their work and return immediately to their home country. Determined to do her job, she stays and finds out from the attacker that he is none other than Baraki, a white haired muscular man with a large scar on his back. Later she discovers that his real name is Keisuke Ibaraki. Once a promising quarterback, he ended up falsely incriminated by a powerful organization known as GPX.

• OVA (4 eps)
• 1990 - 1992

Mad Bull is a rogue cop who doesn't take crap from anyone. In a metropolis laden with sex and violence, he makes his own law as he executes violent criminals according to his own laws. Now, his rookie partner Daizaburo is exposed to his controversial ways and must decide whether Bull is a real hero or worse than the criminals he's fighting!

• Movie (1 ep)
• 1998

As a young girl, Sawa is orphaned when both her parents are brutally murdered and is taken in by a police detective named Akai, who trains her to be a professional killer. He turns Sawa and Oburi, a young boy, into his puppets and makes them kill to fulfill his own sense of justice against child molesters and other harassing members of society.

• Movie (1 ep)
• 2010

To stop the unstoppable you need the irresistible. To kill the un-killable, you need someone for whom death no longer has a meaning. And to catch the perfect serial killer, you need the one person who knows his methods the best… his last victim! Murdered and reborn, no longer human, the female cyborg named Balot exists for one reason: to track down the man who killed her and bring him to justice.

• OVA (1 ep)
• 1991

• OVA (1 ep)
• 1989

Ryuuichi is as cold as ice. He is willing to use and abuse other people to achieve his personal goals, solving all problems that arise either with money or his fists - and he is never satisfied. No matter how much money he gets, no matter how many girlfriends he has, he always feels like he can do better. Eventually he decides to leave his home town and live in Tokyo, determined to work his way to the top using any means necessary...

• OVA (1 ep)
• 1990

After a massive earthquake rocked the Kanto region of Japan, the landscape remains decimated and towns of survivors are few and far between. One settlement dubbed ‘Hope Town' has previously been kept safe from invaders and danger, but one day the infamous Hell's Wind biker gang rolls into town. Known for being brutal and merciless, they quickly lay waste to the buildings, capture all of the townspeople and get set to rape a woman named Keiko. However, at the last second a badly-scarred, battle-hardened Jun appears; Hell's Wind previously had captured her and her boyfriend, viciously murdered her love and raped and left her for dead. Now, Jun and an unlikely companion - the giant Violence Jack - will try to put a stop to Hell's Wind and rescue Keiko!