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Plot Summary:
A rock band writes a song called "Fish Story" based on a sentence from a badly translated novel by a quack translator. The song exceeds the boundaries of space and time and ties people and their stories together. Thirty-seven years go by, and the song strikes a comet and saves the Earth from total destruction.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, exciting, touching, semi serious, apocalyptic, clever, offbeat, stylized, non-linear
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The Girl from Monday (2005)
Plot Summary:
A comic drama about a time in the near future when citizens are happy to be property traded on the stock exchange.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: semi serious, clever, witty, cynical, stylized, independent film, offbeat, biting, crying, freeze frame
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Wild Zero (1999)
Plot Summary:
Only legendary Japanese garage rock band Guitar Wolf can stand between a race of aliens from destroying earth with an army of zombies.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Music, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: surreal, horror comedy, cult classic, rough, offbeat, humorous, suspenseful, not serious, experimental, avant garde
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Why Don't You Play in Hell? (2013)
Plot Summary:
In Japan, gonzo filmmakers hatch a three-pronged plan to save an actress's career, end a yakuza war and make a hit movie.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: rough, humorous, exciting, realistic, semi serious, dark comedy, sexy, surreal, underground film, black comedy
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Big Man Japan (2007)
Plot Summary:
In this hilarious mockumentary, middle-aged Daisato (Hitoshi Matsumoto) -- a second-rate, third-generation superhero -- annoys his neighbors with the noise and destruction he causes on the job. But a heroic public image is the least of his concerns. Besides defending Japan from bizarre monsters, he must deal with an agent seeking to brand him with ads, a superhero grandfather with Alzheimer's and a family embarrassed by his incompetence.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, not serious, surreal, tense, exciting, captivating, mind bending, psychedelic, suspense
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Interzone (1989)
Plot Summary:
Humans fight mutants in a post-holocaust world.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, futuristic, independent film, exciting, offbeat, humorous
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Real Men (1987)
Plot Summary:
Jim Belushi plays a super-competent secret agent on the trail of Russian thugs. John Ritter plays a milquetoast dad who gets mixed up in the caper. The story follows their adventures over the course of a week, in which Ritter develops some guts and Belushi gets in touch with his sensitive side.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: clever, absurd, semi serious, inspirational, suspenseful, light, action comedy, spy comedy, light hearted, crying
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Resurrection of the Little Match Girl (2002)
Plot Summary:
To Chinese restaurant delivery boy 'Ju', the only joy in life is spending time at the electronic game room. One day, 'Ju' who was engrossed in an electronic game as usual, is advised to log-on to a game called RESURRECTION OF THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL. The match selling girl of Andersen's fairytale is revived through the game, and 'Ju' is drawn into the little girl's virtual reality. As reality and cyberspace interchange, 'Ju', like in the famous fairytale, is given the mission to save the little girl from danger and lead her to a peaceful death. However, the two are not only confronted by a gigantic force called the System, that attempts to stop them, but other obstacles that place their lives in danger.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, stylized, cyber, cult classic, humorous, semi serious, cult film
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Turks in Space (2006)
Plot Summary:
The year is 2055, and the universe is in a state of turmoil, awaiting the formation of a government that can establish universal peace. Until such a time, the Orion Union stands in its stead, an uneasy alliance made up not of planets, but of their individual states, overlorded by unruly gangs, short-sighted tyrants and hissing, domineering queens. In short, chaos reigns.
IMDB Rating: 1.5
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Turkey
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, offbeat, campy
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Zebraman (2004)
Plot Summary:
Being a failure as a teacher and a familyman, Shinichi tries to escape everyday live by dressing up as "Zebraman", the superhero. Although the TV series whas canceled after only 6 episodes, this cannot stop him from acting out his escape fantasy in a self made zebra-suit. He get's more then he could ever wish for, when his black-and-white dressed alter-ego seems to be the only thing to stand between absolute (green) evil and a happy ending.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: humorous, stylized, semi serious, parody, absurd, disturbing, cult classic, exciting, spoof, campy
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RoboGeisha (2009)
Plot Summary:
Sisters Yoshie and Kikue are two Geisha who are abducted by a mysterious organization to be transformed into murderous cyborg assassins.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, futuristic, captivating, surreal, splatter, entertaining, bloody, cyber, horror comedy
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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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Monday (2000)
Plot Summary:
A simple funeral turns a man's world upside down.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, humorous, captivating, black comedy, dark comedy, cult classic, mindfuck, clever, offbeat, realistic
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Mantecoza (2014)
Plot Summary:
The story of office drone Sebastian King's tongue-in-cheek adventures in the magically steampunk world of Mantecoza. Using the magical ring and a magical word, Sebastian travels between worlds, trying to save both from the evil machinations of Lord Barr.
IMDB Rating:
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Genere: Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, witty, semi serious, offbeat
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Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988)
Plot Summary:
'Hell' is the name of the hero of the story. He's a prisoner of the women who now run the USA after a nuclear/biological war. Results of the war are that mutants have evolved, and the human race is in danger of extinction due to infertility. Hell is given the task of helping in the rescue of a group of fertile women from the harem of the mutant leader (resembling a frog). Hell cannot escape since he has a bomb attached to his private parts which will detonate if he strays more than a few hundred yards from his guard.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, humorous, apocalyptic, suspenseful, semi serious, futuristic, cult classic, erotic, retro
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Phoenix the Warrior (1988)
Plot Summary:
Big hair, big guns, big personalities, and a serious lack of wardrobe. She-Wolves of the Wasteland, a post-apocalyptic story that features women--lots and lots of women--who leave little to the imagination as they battle each other in various junkyards and gravel pits to determine the fate of the entire world.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: futuristic, suspenseful, exciting, serious, apocalyptic, independent film, offbeat, psychotronic, cult film
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Tank Girl (1995)
Plot Summary:
Based on the British cult comic-strip, our tank-riding anti-heroine fights a mega-corporation, which controls the world's water supply.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: stylized, futuristic, exciting, cult classic, slapstick, apocalyptic, offbeat, semi serious, visual, black comedy
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Cherry 2000 (1987)
Plot Summary:
When successful businessman Sam Treadwell finds that his android wife, Cherry model 2000 has blown a fuse, he hires sexy renegade tracker E. Johnson to find her exact duplicate. But as their journey to replace his perfect mate leads them into the treacherous and lawless region of 'The Zone', Treadwell learns the hard way that the perfect woman is made not of computer chips and diodes.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, cult classic, apocalyptic, grindhouse, futuristic, road movie, psychotronic, tech noir, cyber, serious
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Linda Linda Linda (2005)
Plot Summary:
A group of four high school girls decide to put together a band for their school cultural festival. Three days before they are to play the festival, the guitarist and singer quit the band. The remaining members must figure out what to do or risk canceling. They need to find a new member to be the singer, so they ask the first girl who walks by. Unfortunately, she doesn't speak Japanese very well. Only three days before their high school festival, guitarist Kei (Yu Kashii), drummer Kyoko (Aki Maeda), and bassist Nozumi (Shiori Sekine) are forced to recruit a new lead vocalist for their band. They choose Korean exchange student Son (Bae Doo-Na), though her comprehension of Japanese is a bit rough! It’s a race against time as the group struggles to learn three tunes for the festival’s rock concert—including a classic '80s punk-pop song by the Japanese group The Blue Hearts called “Linda Linda”.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, uplifting, educational, realistic, weird
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Killing Bono (2011)
Plot Summary:
Neil and Ivan McCormick, two Irish brothers who attempt to become rock stars but can only look on as their high school friends U2 become the biggest band in the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: feel good, semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, freeze frame
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Death Kappa (2010)
Plot Summary:
When military experiments go haywire and trigger an atomic bomb, the consequences are of epic proportions. A monster arrives in the midst of the nuclear fallout, and Japan's defenses are helpless against it. Mankind's only savior is an irradiated water goblin from Japanese folklore called the "Death Kappa". The two rival monsters must go head-to-head in the ultimate battle between good and evil!.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, exciting, retro, surreal, offbeat, suspenseful, stylized, psychotronic
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Radioactive Dreams (1984)
Plot Summary:
After an atomic war Phillip Hammer and Marlowe Chandler have spent 15 years on their own in an bunker, stuffed with junk from the 40s and old detective novels. Now, 19 years old, they leave their shelter to find a world full of mutants, freaks and cannibals. They become famous detectives in the struggle for the two keys that could fire the last nuclear weapon.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: parody, suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, stylized, apocalyptic, surreal, disturbing, psychotronic, detective
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Six-String Samurai (1998)
Plot Summary:
In a post-apocalyptic world where the Russians have taken over a nuked USA and Elvis is king of Lost Vegas, Buddy is a '50s rocker and wandering warrior rolled into one, too-cool package. Armed with his six-string in one hand and his sword in the other, Buddy is on his way to Vegas to succeed Elvis as King. Along the way, he saves an orphan who decides to tag along.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: surreal, entertaining, futuristic, apocalyptic, humorous, cult classic, independent film, stylized, funny, atmospheric
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Heaven's Soldiers (2005)
Plot Summary:
Modern day soldiers travel back in time and meet Admiral Lee, the greatest soldier of all time, and motivate him to drive out invaders.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 607
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, stylized, semi serious, rough, offbeat
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The World's End (2013)
Plot Summary:
Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 295000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA, Japan
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: witty, absurd, humorous, funny, parody, spoof, dark comedy, cult classic, suspense, horror comedy
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Zeiram (1991)
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Teppei and Kamiya, two average joes working in the electronic services industry, stumble upon the intergalactic bounty-hunter Ilia, and her partner, the artificial intelligence named Bob. Both men are accidentally transported to the Zone, a virtual reality in which Bob has trapped Ilia's latest prey, a biological weapon named Zeram. The Earth natives must both survive the experience and help Ilia capture Zeram before the Zone disappears around them.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 799
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, offbeat, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious, avant garde
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Defense Condition 4 (1985)
Plot Summary:
Two men and a woman circle the globe in a satellite armed with a nuclear device. The third world war breaks out, and a few months later the satellite crashes. They survive the crash but one man gets killed by survivors and the other man gets caught. The woman stays by the remains of the the satellite but is soon caught by evil punks who have taken power.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, suspense, action adventure, independent film, exciting, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, unusual plot structure
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Returner (2002)
Plot Summary:
After an alien invasion threatens to annihilate the human race, a young Japanese girl, named Milly (Anne Suzuki), travels back in time from 2084 to October 2002, and enlists the reluctant aid of skilled Tokyo gunman, named Miyamoto (Takeshi Kaneshiro), to discover and prevent the start of the war. However, trouble ensues when the two protagonists are forced to deal with a Japanese mafia boss, named Mizoguchi (Goro Kishitani), who is somehow involved in the start of the war by keeping the first alien spaceship and its alien pilot captive, while our two heroes race against the clock to find a way to stop the oncoming destruction from the vengeance-seeking alien invasion fleet on its way to Earth.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, cult classic, stylized, futuristic, exciting, apocalyptic, scenic, cyber, serious, fast
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Detroit Metal City (2008)
Plot Summary:
Soichi Negishi moved to Tokyo to chase his dream of becoming a musician playing stylish, Swedish-style pop. Instead, he finds himself leading the death metal band Detroit Metal City, or DMC, as the costumed and grotesquely made-up "demon emperor" Johannes Krauser II. Although he hates the role and the things he has to do as a member of the band, he has a definite talent for it.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, anime, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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End of the World (2013)
Plot Summary:
In End of the World, the fate of humanity lies in the hands of two guys who run a video rental store and are “sci-fi obsessed” movie fans. And who better to save the world, than guys who have seen all the movies and all the “out there” ways to save it!?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic, apocalyptic, offbeat, humorous, disaster movie