The director Ishiro Honda took a break from Godzilla with a villain who could turn himself into a cloud of gas. A new series pipes him into the 21st century.
The true culprit was identified soon after this HBO documentary came out. A new episode shows that the series was less about who did the killings than about the agony of uncertainty.
There’s a new crop four times a year. This spring, the Ghibli-like “Witch Hat Atelier” and the alternate-future samurai saga “Nippon Sangoku” stand out.