Heisei-era Internet Anxiety 平成时代的互联网焦虑

A mysterious suicide and a series of unmanned robot run-aways sparks off a Police investigation into the suspicious software on-board thousands of industrial robots around Tokyo.

In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster' begins involving them in politics, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop the Puppetmaster.

1996 film by Yoshimitsu Morita

2001 film by Shunji Iwai

In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lurks some of its inhabitants who are desperately trying to escape the sadness and isolation of the modern world.

Encouraged by her managers, rising pop star Mima takes on a recurring role on a popular TV show, when suddenly her handlers and collaborators begin turning up murdered.

1997 anime film directed by Hideaki Anno

Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi and her friends engage in a practice known as enjo kosai, or "compensated dating", where older men pay young girls for dates. Hiromi plunges deeper into this world to raise money for an expensive ring.

岩仓玲音的同学四方田千砂自杀了。没有任何前兆的自杀事件让同学们不知所措，一周后，玲音收到了千砂的短信。明明已死的千砂居然以手机短信和玲音开始了交流。回到家，玲音用爸爸给她的电脑开始与千砂联系。当谈及为何自杀时，千砂回答说“因为我已经不需要身体了，没有身体，我可以在wired网络之间继续活着。”不解的玲音继续调查千砂的事件，发现wired网络之中隐藏的巨大秘密，玲音自己的身世也出现了谜团。玲音面对网络世界中的真相，耳边不断响起千砂的话“我生存在wired中，因为神在那里。”

私は、ずっと出口を探している。
この日本を覆う空気、あらかじめ全てをあきらめてしまったかのような虚無、あるいは、そこから何も生み出しようもない、自分以外のモノへの思考停止の依存は何なんだろう? 高度資本主義の強迫から生まれた、拠り所を求めて浮遊する個? 確かにそうかもしれない。国家、会社、学校、あるいは家族という近代の物語が崩れていくと同時に個人の価値観が問われ始めた。私たちは漂っている。
でも、拠り所なんていらないんだ、ということをなぜ、人は言わないのだろう?「大きな物語」はもう終わったのだ。自らコントロールできない物語など、私はいらない。自律した個人同士のミクロな関係性にこそ、出口があると思う。そして、そこからはじめて「私たちの物語」が始まるのだと思う。
この作品の主人公、雨宮さんは、民族派右翼思想に救われたと言う。社会と自分の接点を見い出し、虚無からぬけ出せたと言う。でも、民族主義者の雨宮さんは、雨宮さんではない。
～主義を背負った途端に、人は自分を見失う。彼女は、ビデオカメラと向き合うことによってそのことに気づき始めた。
『新しい神様』は、ビデオカメラを通じたコミュニケーションの映画でもある。観て頂いたあなたと一緒に考えたくて、私は、この作品を作った。右翼、左翼、～主義など、どうでもいい。私が作ったのは、あなたに対する精一杯のビデオレターである。

少女宫下藤花，当她察觉到“世界之敌”的时候便会诞生出另一个名为“不吉波普”的人格。围绕着各种奇怪的事件，少年与少女们的故事慢慢展开了——

Homicide detective Yosuke Kobayashi saw his wife killed by serial killer Shinji Nishizono. From the shock of the incident, he suffers from multiple personality disorder and becomes Kazuhiko Amamiya. Soon after, he goes on the hunt for revenge.

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.

玛莉丝从沉睡中醒来，但这个世界已变得面目全非。人类灭亡了，作为“DOLL”的玛莉丝似乎失去了意义。在寻找整修组的过程中，奇迹发生了……

1999 anime film directed by Mamoru Hosoda

When 54 high school girls throw themselves in front of a subway train it appears to be only the beginning of a string of suicides around the country. Does the new all-girl group Desert have anything to do with it? Detective Kuroda tries to find the answer, which isn't as simple as he had hoped.

2002 film by Olivier Assayas

Denizens of Lux have come to call it "The City" and treat it as a sentient force. Three factions vie for control of the city: the Organo, a strictly professional conglomerate with ties to the criminal underworld in the prosthetics business; the Union, a fanatical populist group interfering with Organo's affairs; and Racan, a marauding group of Texhnolyzed youths.

一个影像狂终日埋首于电视与网络传来的幻想海洋，九一一的爆炸与高楼倒塌，在他看来是那样美丽残酷；或者是安放在不同家庭的Web Cam所传来的偷窥画面，不同人生的私密片断化作影像垃圾，从中却发现一位美少女不可告人的秘密。百分百影像世代的扭曲极致，反映新一代年青人对科技，影像的麻目；对疏离生活尤保有一丝好奇，渴望冲出去但又懒于行动。

Musashino, Tokyo. An elementary schooler repeatedly attacks people in the streets. Known only to the public as "Lil Slugger", none of the victims can recall the young boy's face and only three distinct details are left in their memories: golden inline skates, a baseball cap, and the weapon: a bent golden baseball bat. Detectives Ikari and Maniwa set out to track down the perpetrator and put an end to his crimes.