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Plot Summary:
To celebrate their graduation from university Kaori and her two friends visit Okinawa in southern Japan for a short vacation. At the vacation house, provided by Tadashi's uncle, a numbing stench awaits the girls, and can be traced to a horrendously deformed, legged fish that Kaori kills. More and more of these creatures appear and portend a horrific change for the animal life in the area. A phone call from Kaori's fiancé Tadashi in Tokyo quickly shows the scope of this epidemic, when he is also attacked by these mechanized fish. Kaori immediately sets out on an perilous voyage to find out what happened to Tadashi, helped by Shirakawa — a videographer in search of the truth behind all this.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological thriller, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, disturbing, dark fantasy, manga, weird
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 126
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Country: Japan
Duration: 78 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 880
Genere: Animation, Horror
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IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
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Duration: 80 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
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Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 71
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IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 809
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Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 752
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Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 333
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
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Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 55
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Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 544
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 61
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IMDB Votes: 2000
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IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
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IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
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Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Votes: 572
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IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
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IMDB Votes: 3000
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IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 447
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IMDB Votes: 255
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IMDB Votes: 127
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