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Plot Summary:
Perfect Answer begins several months after the events of the first film. Kurono is still fighting aliens under the order of Gantz, a mysterious giant black orb, and he is close to reaching the score he needs to resurrect his friend Kato. Outside his night time missions, Kurono continues to live his normal life, spending time with his new girlfriend Tae. Meanwhile, young pop star Eriko is being secretly ordered by Gantz to carry out assassinations, and cop Shigeta inches closer towards finding out the truth about the Gantz missions. As the missions begin to get increasingly dangerous for both the alien fighters and the general public, Kurono discovers that the endgame for Gantz is quickly approaching.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, anime, stylized, seinen, manga
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IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, mockbuster, independent film
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: splatter, suspenseful, scary, serious, bloody, disturbing, clever, suspense, controversial, dark fantasy
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Story continues with the students' own conflicts, Koro Sensei’s identity and the fate of the world. The time limit for assassination is approaching.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 916
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, anime, psychological, exciting, suspense, serious, suspenseful, dark fantasy, weird
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: stylized, suspense, intense, anime, exciting, suspenseful, manga, dorama, captivating, disturbing
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: manga, anime, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, psychotronic, post modern
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, manga, tense, light, humorous, slasher, surreal, lovecraft
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, stylized, exciting, manga, anime, offbeat, weird
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: anime, stylized, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, manga, offbeat, weird
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
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Country: Japan
Duration: 131 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
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Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, anime, psychological, psychological thriller, tense, serious, captivating, manga, seinen, action thriller
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Plot Summary:
The final showdown, and the final reveal: who is Friend? How can he be stopped?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
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Country: Japan
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Plot tags: exciting, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, manga, anime, offbeat, serious, weird
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 17000
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Country: Japan, USA
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
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Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
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Country: Japan
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Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, stylized, perverse, exciting, rough
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 799
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Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
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Country: Japan
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Plot tags: intellectual, anime, psychological, bleak, serious, neo noir, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
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Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 587
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
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Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 510
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
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IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
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Plot Summary:
Itou Kaiji is a bum who steals car emblems and slashes tires on what seems to be a regular basis. This routine changes one day when he is paid a visit by a man in a trench-coat. Once the two get talking, it seems that the visitor (Calling himself Endou) is a debt collector. The reason for his visit is an unpaid loan which kaiji had previously co-signed for a work-mate (Furuhata Takeshi). The original loan was 30000 yen and once Takeshi had disappeared, the loan then fell on Kaiji. Kaiji is then told of a way to clear the interest compounded debt (which stood at 3,850,000 yen), which involved getting on a boat with others in his position. Once on the boat the debtors would then have to gamble with loaned money, which would end with a few winning, and others getting into deeper debt and having to work to pay of their debts. After some coercing kaiji accepts a position on the boat, in order to clear himself and make a bit of money as well.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
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Country: Japan
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 92000
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Country: Japan
Duration: 50 min
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