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Plot Summary:
Marking the 75th anniversary of his birth, Shotaro Ishinomori's classic spy heroine manga "009-1" has been adapted into a live-action motion picture for the first time ever.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 659
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: anime
Best tv shows and movies like 009-1: The End of the Beginning (2013):
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Black Angel 2 (1999)
Plot Summary:
Mayo, the Black Angel, is ordered to assassinate a powerful syndicate leader. The hit goes awry, however, as the crime boss' bodyguard steps in the way. It's none other than Yamambe, who once rescued Mayo from a rape and has lived in her heart since then.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Action, Drama, Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: crime drama
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Geisha Assassin (2008)
Plot Summary:
One rainy night in the Edo period, Kotono (a geisha) confronts samurais who killed her father. The samurais attack her one after another, but she fights hard against samurais with her sword. Kotono tries to chase the samurais who scramble to escape. Yet now three ninjas stand up against her. Kotono drops her sword by their wave of assaults. Can she beat them?.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 634
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Southwest (2013)
Plot Summary:
Ex-military Captain Samantha Williams, is "recruited" to put together a team of ex-military and criminals. Williams must carry out unlawful orders to protect the world's most powerful criminal organization, the US Government.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: surprise ending, suspense, exciting, disturbing, crying, independent film, cult film
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Cutie Honey: Tears (2016)
Plot Summary:
At the end of the 21st century, the world is plagued by a mysterious virus and unusual weather. Genius scientist Dr. Kisaragi creates an android with the code name “Cutie Honey” (Mariya Nishiuchi). The android is unique in that it possesses human emotions. To save mankind, Cutie Honey goes up against an evil organization.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, intense, anime, crying
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Dead or Alive: Final (2002)
Plot Summary:
Set in a post apocalyptic Yokohama where the population is kept under rigid control by a homosexual megalomaniac mayor. The citizens are administered drugs to suppress heterosexual urges. Officer Takeshi Honda (Riki Takeuchi) is a hard boiled cop enforcing the mayor's agenda, and Ryō (Show Aikawa) is a mellowed out drifter that hooks up with a gang of rebels. When the gang kidnap Takeshi's son, it begins a series of events leading to an inevitable showdown.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: futuristic, surreal, exciting, rough, serious, stylized, suspenseful, heroic, cyber, crime drama
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The Red Spectacles (1987)
Plot Summary:
Summer 1995. With the arrival of the "Age of Cats", the former Kerberos police unit is now disbanded. However one member remains, a stray dog who returns to his old roost after a three-years exile. This wild dog no longer has a master, but now the "Young Lady of Fate" will guide him on his journey.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 826
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: surreal, anime, experimental, claymation, offbeat, humorous, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious, surprise ending
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Just Heroes (1989)
Plot Summary:
The assassination of a gang lord triggers a power struggle amongst his men. Who will win the game the righteous or the villain?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: heroic, cult classic
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Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs (1974)
Plot Summary:
Agent Zero (Miki Sugimoto) is a cop that uses her own methods for dealing with criminals. After she unlawfully kills a rapist in a violent fashion, she is sent to prison and stripped of her badge. But very soon after, a rich politician's daughter is kidnapped by a ruthless gang. Agent Zero is let out of prison with the mission of going undercover to find the politician's daughter and return her safely. Using her deadly red handcuffs, she disposes of the criminals one by one.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 961
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, disturbing, controversial, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, cult film
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Karate-Robo Zaborgar (2011)
Plot Summary:
An evil criminal organisation called Sigma kidnap prominment business leaders to harvest their DNA and only Karate-Robo Zaborgar can save them.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 553
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: cult classic
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Fudoh: The New Generation (1996)
Plot Summary:
In order to settle a business dispute, a mob leader murders one of his own teenage sons. The surviving son vows to avenge his brother's death, and organizes his own gang of teenage killers to destroy his father's organization.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: neo noir, controversial, crime drama, action thriller, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surreal, black comedy
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Casshern (2004)
Plot Summary:
Fifty years of war between the Great Eastern Federation and Europa - now merged as Eurasia - have taken their toll on planet Earth. As a result of the use of biological, chemical and nuclear weapons, much of Earth has become uninhabitable and people have become prey to new diseases. Professor Azuma's "neo-cell" project, which is supposed to be the answer to mankind's hardships, becomes a nightmare come true when mutants spawned from the experiment escape and declare war on the human race. Azuma's son Tetsuya, who was killed during the previous war, is reborn into the cyborg Casshern as mankind's last hope against the new mutant threat. This live-action sci-fi movie based on a 1973 Japanese animé of the same name.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: stylized, intense, exciting, suspenseful, apocalyptic, anime, cerebral, cyber, mindfuck, futuristic
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The Bodyguard (1973)
Plot Summary:
Karate master and anti-drug vigilante Chiba returns to his home in Japan, where he holds a press conference announcing his intention to wipe out the nation's drug industry. He also offers his services as a bodyguard to anyone who is willing to come forward and provide information about the drug lords' activities. He is soon approached by a mysterious woman claiming to have important information and asking for Chiba's protection. She seems to be legitimate, but is she really what she appears to be?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 545
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, neo noir
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My Name Is Modesty: A Modesty Blaise Adventure (2004)
Plot Summary:
Modesty, raised by a casino owner after being abandoned by her parents, has become skilled in the ways of fighting and now acts as the casino owner's bodyguard. When she's unable to prevent the owner's murder at the hands of an old foe, Modesty is hell-bent on seeking revenge. --- An adaptation of the Modesty Blaise novels and comic strip by Peter O'Donnell.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, stylized, independent film, realistic, psychotronic, surprise ending
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Point of No Return (1993)
Plot Summary:
Hardened criminal Maggie Hayward's consistent violence, even in police custody, ends in the execution chamber. However, top-secret US government agent 'Bob' arranges a staged death, so Maggie can be elaborately trained as a phantom killer and subdued into obedience. She gets a new cover identity as saleswoman Claudia Anne Doran. She also gets a wonderful house-mate, building super J.P., a broad-minded, gentle photographer. The two fall in love, and that complicates hit jobs. His good influence extends to breeding in her a conscience that places love over business, unlike Bob's agency.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, intense, suspenseful, serious, neo noir, breathtaking, political, satanic, anamorphic
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Tekken (2010)
Plot Summary:
In the year of 2039, after World Wars destroy much of the civilization as we know it, territories are no longer run by governments, but by corporations; the mightiest of which is the Mishima Zaibatsu. In order to placate the seething masses of this dystopia, Mishima sponsors Tekken, a tournament in which fighters battle until only one is left standing.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, entertaining, action adventure, spectacular, fast
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Black Scorpion (1995)
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Darcy is a cop who is also a supehero named Black Scorpion at night who kicks and beats evildoers to a pulp. She soon catches wind of an asthmatic mad scientist who plans on tainting the city's air supply with a toxin. Only Darcy in her superhero garb can stop him with the assistance of a petty thief named Argyle.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: action adventure, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, fast, detective, campy
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Lady Snowblood (1973)
Plot Summary:
Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. She creates an instrument for this revenge by purposefully getting pregnant. Yuki never knows the love of a family but only killing and revenge.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, suspenseful, bloody, exciting, melancholic, rough, visual, cult classic, stylized, slasher
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades (1972)
Plot Summary:
In the third film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to kill an evil chamberlain.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: bloody, talky, stylized, manga, exciting, rough, clever, serious, captivating, realistic
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Parasyte: Part 2 (2015)
Plot Summary:
Alien pods come to Earth and, naturally, start taking over Human Hosts. One such pod only manages to take over one human's, Shin Izumi, right arm. Together they grow and co-exist, all the while the other aliens are making meals of other humans; Shin feels he must put a stop to it all, but his alien, Migi, doesn't see why.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, anime, psychological, psychological thriller, tense, serious, captivating, manga, seinen, action thriller
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The Princess Blade (2001)
Plot Summary:
Yuki is the last surviving royal of the House of Takemikazuchi or Takemikazuchi no Hime (たけみかずち の ひめ), who live in a futuristic post-apocalyptic isolationist world where they use their skills as former Mikado guards to become hired assassins. The wise old sage Kuka, who was once Yuki's mother's bodyguard, gives Yuki information that changes her life—and her destiny. She discovers that Byakurai has a dangerous connection to Yuki. After learning this information she chooses to leave the House of Takemikazuchi. She soon encounters Takashi, leader of the rebel movement, who offers Yuki a chance at revenge—and perhaps love. They soon discover similarities for they are both trying to escape the past to start new lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: stylized, serious, suspenseful, fast, neo noir, futuristic, thought provoking, brutal, enigmatic, bad ending
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Yakuza Weapon (2011)
Plot Summary:
After four years overseas, Shozo returns to Japan to avenge his yakuza boss who was assassinated by his own treacherous top man, Kurawaki. The resulting battle leaves both men severely injured, and Shozo awakens in a mysterious medical facility to find his arm replaced with an M61 Vulcan cannon and his leg replaced with a rocket launcher. Meanwhile, Kurawaki has been fitted with mechanical augmentations of his own. Get ready for the second round.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 601
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, captivating, tense, suspense, manga, crime drama, rough, humorous, semi serious
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Iron Girl: Ultimate Weapon (2015)
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Set in the near future in a lawless world. Kurisu Saotome (Kirara Asuka) is a beautiful woman, but she is also a deadly bounty hunter. She wears an armored suit, possessing great power, and she is known as Iron Girl. Kurisu Saotome doesn't remember who she really is or where she comes from. To regain her memory, she continues her lonely battle.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: exciting, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Space Sheriff Sharivan: THE NEXT GENERATION (2014)
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Kai Hyuga/Sharivan uncovers the existence of a spy from the Neo Madou organization. In addition to that Kai's friend, Seigi, becomes the new Space Sheriff Estevan. They must find the spy and stop a drug ring from shipping a pain suppressing narcotic called Hyper-M on Earth. But the new Space Sheriff must learn to trust his instincts and that not all is as it seems.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 61 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Kamen Rider W Returns: Kamen Rider Accel (2011)
Plot Summary:
While settling into married life with Akiko, Ryu is brought into a case involving a woman named Katsuragi Aoi, a member of a pickpocketing ring with most of her teammates murdered from unknown masked vigilantes that Ryu fought as Accel. As the details of the case begin to unravel, Ryu is framed and Akiko believes that he may not be faithful to her. As the clock ticks down, Ryu must solve the case, clear his name, and save his marriage before everything comes to an explosive end!.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful
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Timecop (1994)
Plot Summary:
An officer for a security agency that regulates time travel, must fend for his life against a shady politician who has a tie to his past.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, futuristic, stylized, serious, suspenseful, entertaining, erotic, tech noir, grindhouse
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Dredd (2012)
Plot Summary:
In the future, America is a dystopian wasteland. The latest scourge is Ma-Ma, a prostitute-turned-drug pusher with a dangerous new drug and aims to take over the city. The only possibility of stopping her is an elite group of urban police called Judges, who combine the duties of judge, jury and executioner to deliver a brutal brand of swift justice. But even the top-ranking Judge, Dredd, discovers that taking down Ma-Ma isn’t as easy as it seems in this explosive adaptation of the hugely popular comic series.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 290000
Genere: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, South Africa, India
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: futuristic, intense, neo noir, cyber, apocalyptic, cult classic, visually stunning, touching, exciting, suspenseful
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RoboCop 2 (1990)
Plot Summary:
After a successful deployment of the Robocop Law Enforcement unit, OCP sees its goal of urban pacification come closer and closer, but as this develops, a new narcotic known as "Nuke" invades the streets led by God-delirious leader Cane. As this menace grows, it may prove to be too much for Murphy to handle. OCP tries to replicate the success of the first unit, but ends up with failed prototypes with suicidal issues... until Dr. Faxx, a scientist straying away from OCP's path, uses Cane as the new subject for the Robocop 2 project, a living God.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 91000
Genere: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: futuristic, bloody, cyber, stylized, tech noir, retro, epic, suspense, slasher, apocalyptic
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Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
Plot Summary:
Set several centuries in the future, the abandoned Alita is found in the scrapyard of Iron City by Ido, a compassionate cyber-doctor who takes the unconscious cyborg Alita to his clinic. When Alita awakens, she has no memory of who she is, nor does she have any recognition of the world she finds herself in. As Alita learns to navigate her new life and the treacherous streets of Iron City, Ido tries to shield her from her mysterious past.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 288000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, Canada, USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, captivating, suspense, enigmatic, disturbing, tech noir, action adventure, surreal, apocalyptic
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Hotel Artemis (2018)
Plot Summary:
Set in riot-torn, near-future Los Angeles, 'Hotel Artemis' follows the Nurse, who runs a secret, members-only emergency room for criminals.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, captivating, futuristic, apocalyptic, psychological, philosophical, bloody, political
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Ghost in the Shell (2017)
Plot Summary:
In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: a human saved from a terrible crash, then cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 225000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, India, Hong Kong, China, Canada
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: futuristic, philosophical, cerebral, neo noir, suspense, stylized, cyber, visually stunning, anime, visual