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Plot Summary:
A young boy gets jolted with electricity as he's climbing a cable pylon. As he gets older, he experiences intense fits of violence in which bolts of electricity burst from his fists. Elsewhere in Tokyo, there is an electronics wizard who also happens to be a vigilante with a taste for electric weapons. When the pair catch each others attention, the result is a battle that will light up the city.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, suspenseful, stylized, cyber, art house, black and white, deep, twisted, offbeat
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Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle (2000)
Plot Summary:
Benkei, a master fighter and killer, vows never to take another life after his conversion to Buddhism. His faith in pacifism, however, is shaken and ultimately broken by the attacks from a trio of fighters known only as "the demons". Taking up his sword once more, he sets out to end their murderous terror.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 907
Genere: Action, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, stylized, surprise ending
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Izo (2004)
Plot Summary:
Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun's men, Izo is captured and crucified. Instead of being extinguished, his rage propels him through the space-time continuum to present-day Tokyo. Here Izo transforms himself into a new, improved killing machine.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: rough, disturbing, mindfuck, serious, stylized, surreal, mind blowing, psychological thriller, mind bending, psychedelic
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Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City (2010)
Plot Summary:
Zebra City 2025 – music echoing across what used to be Tokyo from Zebra Queen marks the start of Zebra Time, a 5 minute window twice a day when the city population is free to commit any crime and the Vengeful Zebra Mini-Skirt Police and masked Zebra Police can shoot civilians at will. Zebraman wakes in the street, unable to remember the last 15 years, or his superhero past. He must rely on a band Zebra Time survivors, a man who played him in a TV show version of Zebraman and a mysterious silent girl to battle this Zebra obsession that is splitting the city in to absolutes of black and white.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 805
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: exciting, futuristic, stylized, semi serious, humorous, weird, campy
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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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Wicked City (1992)
Plot Summary:
Based on the popular Japanese sci-fi comic strip, "Wicked City" is about a futuristic Hong Kong on the verge of a take over by the Reptoids--ruthless monsters disguised as humans. They work amongst us, they live within us and their destiny is our demise. Packed with non-stop action and special effects, "Wicked City" will glue you to the screen until the astonishing end.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Japan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: anime, manga, exciting, atmospheric, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, allegory
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Garm Wars: The Last Druid (2014)
Plot Summary:
In a world where clone soldiers from three military tribes are locked in a perpetual battle of air, land and technology, one clone is separated from the battle and finds herself on the run with a group of unlikely companions.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, futuristic, independent film
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Adventures of Thunderstorm: Return of Thor (2011)
Plot Summary:
The plot is similarly smorgasbordesque, cobbled together from the vaguely recalled secret origins of most superheroes: average joe, talented inventor, tragic loss, ancient prophecy, immortal intervention, pending apocalypse, flamboyant villain. Though it has all the parts of two or more superhero movies, it also lacks everything that makes superheroes interesting.
IMDB Rating: 1.4
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, psychotronic, mockbuster
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Ashura (2005)
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Adapted from the successful play, the film takes place in 19th-century Japan, where a war between demons and their slayers is fought. Izumo, a kabuki actor with a demon-slaying past, meets and falls in love with Tsubaki. However, something is not right, as mysterious marks appear on her body as time progresses. At the same time, it is announced that Ashura, the queen of all demons, will be resurrected and bring destruction to the universe.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 750
Genere: Action, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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The Wrath of Vajra (2013)
Plot Summary:
In the 1930s , a Japanese cult called The Temple of Hades was ordered to cooperate with the Japanese military to destroy China. They buy so many young children from poor family , who will be trained as a lethal killing machine and serve the Empire of Japan. One of them is Vajra , who was forced by his captors to fight for the food , and accidentally causing the death of his brother. Several years later , Vajra grown up and become one of the biggest killer in the Hades sect. Vajra escapes to China and joins Shaolin , where he receives spiritual enlightenment and determined to support China against Japan.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Fantasy
Country: China, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: exciting, stylized, serious, suspenseful, scenic
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The Avenging Fist (2001)
Plot Summary:
In the not too distant future, scientists begin to conduct research on the Power Glove, a device that will yield unimaginable power. But the gloves... In the not too distant future, scientists begin to conduct research on the Power Glove, a device that will yield unimaginable power. But the gloves were stolen by the ambitious special agent War 21, who subsequently disappears. Twenty years later, Combat 21 re-emerges to rule the world, calling himself the God of Fists. Now a new generation of special agents must come together and defeat the omnipotent enemy.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 710
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, non stop action, fast, manga, cult film
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Ancestral World (2020)
Plot Summary:
A prince must learn to be a hero. In a time of demons and Gods warring for domination, a prince is sent on a mission to rescue his brother and recover a magical armor stolen by the God of Destruction.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Action, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, disturbing, contemplative
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Nemesis 3: Time Lapse (1996)
Plot Summary:
Using footage left over from Nemesis 2 and a very thin story line sees Alex again fighting the cyborg mercenaries in 1998 East Africa. This time, Alex finds that she has 20 half sisters who are waiting for her to return to 2077. Central Command wants Alex captured alive and scanned to see if her DNA is a strong and more powerful strain than the normal. But Alex may be too tough for Farnsworth to capture.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized, independent film
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Avalon (2001)
Plot Summary:
In a future world, young people are increasingly becoming addicted to an illegal (and potentially deadly) battle simulation game called Avalon. When Ash, a star player, hears of rumors that a more advanced level of the game exists somewhere, she gives up her loner ways and joins a gang of explorers. Even if she finds the gateway to the next level, will she ever be able to come back to reality?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, Poland
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: bleak, stylized, cyber, atmospheric, surreal, intellectual, suspenseful, serious, cerebral, apocalyptic
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Gunhed (1989)
Plot Summary:
High-concept Sci-Fi adventure about an island that actually is a computer called Kyron 5, itself created to design and manufacture super-advanced robots to be used as slaves for the rest of the world. One day Kyron decides that human beings are unnecessary, so it declares war on the world. But Kyron cannot be tamed, and after many lives are lost in the attempt, mankind decides to leave Kyron to its own devices.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: cyber, apocalyptic, mecha, futuristic, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (2003)
Plot Summary:
Forty-two years after her first visit in Tokyo, Mothra returns to warn mankind that they must return Mechagodzilla, along with Godzilla's bones, to the sea, for the dead must not be disturbed. If not, dire consequences will follow. However, Godzilla is once again on the rampage, and Mechagodzilla is Japan's only defense.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, serious, exciting, captivating, daikaiju, natural horror, psychotronic, cult film
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Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992)
Plot Summary:
Tetsuo II: Body Hammer is a 1992 Japanese science fiction/horror film directed by Shinya Tsukamoto. It is a bigger-budget reworking of the same director's 1989 movie Tetsuo: The Iron Man, utilizing similar themes and ideas to the earlier film (a Japanese salaryman, played by cult actor Tomorowo Taguchi, finds his body transforming into a weapon through sheer rage after his son is kidnapped by a gang of violent thugs.) It was not as well received as its predecessor but it did win the Critic's Award at the 3rd Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in February 1992.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, cyber, surreal, extreme horror, experimental, controversial, cult horror, atmospheric, rough
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Darkman (1990)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Peyton Westlake is on the verge of realizing a major breakthrough in synthetic skin when his laboratory is destroyed by gangsters. Having been burned beyond recognition and forever altered by an experimental medical procedure, Westlake becomes known as Darkman, assuming alternate identities in his quest for revenge and a new life with a former love.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 69000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, atmospheric, gothic, serious, cult classic, stylized, slasher, dark, dark comedy
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Kamen Rider Heisei Generations Forever (2018)
Plot Summary:
In the world of Sougo Tokiwa and Sento Kiryu, their "companions" are losing their memories one after the other as they're replaced by other people. The Super Time Jacker, Tid , appears before them. He orders his powerful underlings, Another Double and Another Den-O, to pursue a young boy called Shingo. While fighting to protect Shingo, Sougo meets Ataru, a young man who loves Riders, but Ataru says that Kamen Riders aren't real. What is the meaning of those words? While the mystery deepens, the true enemy that Sougo and Sento must defeat appears in the Kuriogatake mountain.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, touching, captivating, suspense, futuristic
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Kamen Rider Build NEW WORLD: Kamen Rider Grease (2019)
Plot Summary:
Deputy Officer of the United Nations Alliance, Simon Marcus, who aims to conquer the world with the terrorist organization Downfall along with the mad scientist Keiji Uraga, attack the Kamen Riders with overwhelming strength. It is only on Kamen Rider Grease that the enemy's abilities did not work. In order to defeat this new enemy and rescue Misora, Kazumi Sawatari must create a new item ... but it is told that it requires the life of his friends, the Three Crows. The ultimate decision must be made.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Alive (2002)
Plot Summary:
Tenshu is imprisoned and sentenced to death for murdering the men who raped his girlfriend. However, he manages to survive his execution and is presented with an option: face another execution attempt or subject himself to their bizarre and dangerous experiments.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, bleak, serious, weird
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City Under Siege (2010)
Plot Summary:
Sunny is a naïve circus performer who dreams of inheriting his father's knife-throwing skills. However, his hostile colleagues continue to bully him, relegating him to a lowly clown. On a tour to Malaysia, Cheung and other performers discover a cave occupied by the Japanese army during World War II. Instead of finding treasure, the performers - including Sunny - are sprayed with a mysterious chemical that turns them into superhuman mutants.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 984
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, crime drama, offbeat, humorous, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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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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Gantz: The Movie, Part 1 (2010)
Plot Summary:
After trying to rescue a man on the subway tracks, two teens wake up in a room dominated by a mysterious black sphere that sends them to hunt down and kill aliens hiding on Earth.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, stylized, bleak, serious, futuristic, anime, manga, surreal, fast
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Gatchaman (2013)
Plot Summary:
By the year 2050 AD, a mysterious organization called Galactor has occupied half of the Earth and threatens to exterminate the human race. Around the same time, the International Science Organization had uncovered mysterious stones that bear unusual powers. It is said that one person out of approximately eight million is able to harness the power of the stones; they are known as a "Receptor". Dr. Kozaburo Nambu gathers a team of these five lucky Receptors together. Known as the "Gatchaman" team, it is their mission to defeat Galactor.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 510
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, anime, captivating, tense, heroic, intense, scenic, serious
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Kamen Rider Drive Saga: Kamen Rider Chaser (2016)
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A new Roidmude, Angel, appears, granting full human emotions to Chase. Chase, now possessing the emotions he wanted to feel, attempts to integrate into humanity, but becomes uncertain when he realizes the dangers of what the Angel Roidmude is doing. Chase must decide between Justice and the emotions he always wanted, with the lives of those around him at stake.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Kamen Rider W Returns: Kamen Rider Eternal (2011)
Plot Summary:
Set primarily before the events of Kamen Rider W Forever, Kamen Rider Eternal tells the story of Daido Katsumi, the formation of NEVER, the mission that led them to target Fuuto, and reveals just how Daido obtained his Lost Driver and got his first taste of the power of Kamen Rider Eternal. As a mysterious woman retells this story to Phillip and Shotaro, they realize that Daido may not have been the simple monster he first appeared to be….
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, touching, captivating, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful
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Kamen Rider Reiwa: The First Generation (2019)
Plot Summary:
The world of Kamen Rider Zero-One and the world of Kamen Rider Zi-O. The two heroes live in different worlds, but what is waiting for them after crossing time and space into a single world? Union or conflict? This winter marks a new legend in the history of Kamen Rider.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Kamen Rider W Returns: Kamen Rider Accel (2011)
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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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Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (1995)
Plot Summary:
Jobe is resuscitated by Jonathan Walker. He wants Jobe to create a special computer chip that would connect all the computers in the world into one network, which Walker would control and use. But what Walker doesn't realize is a group of teenage hackers are on to him and out to stop his plan.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: cyber, futuristic, psychological, anamorphic, hilarious, independent film, exciting, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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Fist of the North Star (1995)
Plot Summary:
From the immensely popular FIST OF THE NORTH STAR comic book series, comes a new hero. The fate of mankind rests with superhuman warrior Kenshiro who roams the wastelands of the future waging a battle against overwhelming evil. With the spiritual guidance of his dead father, Kenshiro fights to free his stolen love from the brutal tyrant Lord Shin. Through his struggle he must confront his destiny.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: stylized, exciting, serious, suspenseful, anime, cult classic, apocalyptic, perverse, bleak, surprise ending