Black Lagoon (Season 1)

Black Lagoon (2006) is a Japanese action-crime anime you can watch online on iFILM. The Lagoon Company is a tiny shipping outfit that hauls anything across the seas of Southeast Asia, especially the cargo no honest carrier will touch.

Rokuro Okajima is a mild Japanese salaryman taken hostage during one such run. When his own company writes him off, he stays — reborn as Rock, the fourth hand aboard a torpedo boat. His new crew: Revy, a foul-mouthed gunslinger who shoots before she thinks; Dutch, the unflappable boss; and Benny, the tech guy. Home base is Roanapur, a fictional Thai port where Chinese triads, the Russian mafia, Italian families and Colombian cartels carve up the black market with bullets.

Produced by Madhouse from Rei Hiroe's manga, the show earns its "Try not to die" tagline — brutal, cynical, and oddly thoughtful about morality in a place that has none. It's built for viewers who want their anime mature and unsentimental, with firefights staged more convincingly than most live-action thrillers. Stream Black Lagoon online on iFILM.