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Plot Summary:
In this high-octane slugfest, a group of badass female students are forced to battle a gang of criminals. Even with their short skirts and leather boots, the HIGH KICK ANGELS prove to be martial arts masters.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, suspense, unusual plot structure, exciting, contemplative, hot
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Lure: Teen Fight Club (2010)
Plot Summary:
A community is under siege as three Belmont Highschool coed students go missing with no trace of their whereabouts. The pressure is on the police to capture the culprits responsible. Scouring the school hallways in search of clues, undercover female detective Maggie Rawdon (Jessica Sonnerborn) enters Belmont High as a transfer student in an attempt to solve the hideous disappearance of the students. Maggie makes a few new friends, and gets invited to a private rave in the country. Just as the group begins to suspect that they've taken a wrong turn, however, the trap is sprung and Maggie finds out firsthand what fate has befallen the missing girls.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Girl Gun Lady (2021)
Plot Summary:
Koharu is a dull high school girl who is always alone. Her only hobby is making plastic models. One day, Koharu stops by a mysterious antique shop and purchases a plastic model gun and a toy figure named Alice. After spending the entire night assembling the gun, Koharu wakes up and witnesses bullets flying everywhere in school. She then meets Alice who moves like a human and tells her to get ready for a survival battle called "Girl Gun Fight", where she has to attack her schoolmates with a gun.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Action
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags:
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Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation (2016)
Plot Summary:
Izumi Hoshi (Kanna Hashimoto) is senior in high school, but she led a small yakuza group in her past. After killing her uncle's murderer with a machine gun, her yakuza group disbanded. Izumi now lives an ordinary life as a high school student and works as a manager at a cafe. A dangerous situation soon awaits for Izumi.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 211
Genere: Action, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Revenge Girl (2017)
Plot Summary:
Miki Takaraishi is a smart and beautiful 24-year-old woman, but her personality is not as good. She falls in love with Yuga Saito who is handsome and comes from a politician family. They see each other romantically, but Yugo Saito dumps Miki Takaraishi. To get revenge on Yuga Saito, she decides to run for prime minister. For her election campaign, she hires Toshiya Kadowaki as her campaign strategist.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 261
Genere: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, melancholic, tense, sentimental, light
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Tokyo Tribe (2014)
Plot Summary:
In an alternate Japan, territorial street gangs form opposing factions collectively known as the Tokyo Tribes. The simmering tension between them is about to boil over into all-out war.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Musical
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, manga, cult classic, sexy, realistic, semi serious, avant garde, futuristic
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Let's Go, Jets! (2017)
Plot Summary:
Female students, including Hikari Tomonaga, from a high school cheerdance club follow strict instructions from their teacher Kaoruko Saotome. They compete at the USA Cheerdance Championship.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 829
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags:
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Shinobi: The Law of Shinobi (2004)
Plot Summary:
In the world of the Ninja, fighting skills play a small role in one's rank in the Shinobi order. Kageru is the best in his class, but his birth predestines him to the lower class. His friend Aoi is dealt the same fate; together they'll have to question themselves.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: historical 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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Champions (1997)
Plot Summary:
William Rockman, a champion "Terminal Combat" fighter who retired from the sport after accidentally killing a young man while training. Five years after his retirement, Terminal Combat has been banned by the government and has gone underground. The "new" Terminal Combat is just that; one combatant in each match usually does not live to tell about the experience. When Rockman's younger brother is killed in one of the underground matches by his old rival, the King, Rockman enters the tournament to exact revenge on the King, not knowing that the King and his wife, Daria, have been enslaved by Max Brito, the tournament's greedy promoter.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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Angel of Fury (1990)
Plot Summary:
A security specialist (Nancy Bolan) is hired to deliver a valuable computer. She is joined by her former lover who has plans of his own for the computer.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 378
Genere: Action
Country: Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: funny
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Stop the Bitch Campaign: Hell Version (2004)
Plot Summary:
In Tokyo, prostitution in the name of "Enjo Kosai" is in fashion among some high school girls. A mysterious man Kuni lament such girls but cannot deny a strong desire for them. He punish the girls by having sex with them without paying them. He calls this operation "Stop the Bitch Campaign" for public justice. Working in a sex trade shop where abnormal people are satisfied with their lust. Aoi tries to find out the man who raped her desperately in the past. One day, Aoi meets Kuni.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: controversial
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Beyond Fear (1993)
Plot Summary:
Martial Arts Champion Mimi Lesseos is back - and the wilderness just got wilder! Tipper Taylor, martial arts expert turned wilderness tour guide, is stalked deep in the wilderness by two desperate men who will stop at nothing to retrieve a videotape innocently shot by one of Tipper's group - a tape which shows the men committing a heinous murder! As each attempt to recover the tape is foiled by the intrepid Tipper, the murderers' desperation mounts, leading to a final, terrifying and action-packed confrontation which takes them all Beyond Fear.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film
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You Are the Apple of My Eye (2018)
Plot Summary:
Kosuke Mizushima (Yuki Yamada) is a high school student at a provincial city and enjoys a comfortable life. One day, due to Kosuke Mizushima's excessive joke, his class is interrupted. The teacher gets upset and makes model student Mai Hayase (Asuka Saito) keep an eye on Kosuke Mizushima. Kosuke Mizushima and his 4 friends all had crushes on Mai when they were in middle school. Due to a small incident, Kosuke Mizushima and Mai Hayase get close. --asianwiki.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 474
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags:
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Angel Terminators (1992)
Plot Summary:
Two Hong Kong policewomen (Ida and Hon) take on a Japanese boss who has returned from a seven-year exile to retake his old turf.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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High-Kick Girl! (2009)
Plot Summary:
Martial arts purists -- not to mention fans of miniskirt-clad, high-kicking karate girls -- will welcome the tightly choreographed fight scenes and slow-motion scuffles in this film about a teenage karate phenom eager to take down her older peers. High schooler Kei Tsuchiya joins The Destroyers when she decides that her longtime karate master is holding her back. She realizes her mistake but it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 904
Genere: Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, serious, realistic, fast
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Yarukkya Knight (2015)
Plot Summary:
Makoto Gousuke has just transferred to a new high school with the intention of being the toughest kid there. Little does he know that there‘s an entire group of toughs who already rule the school, and they‘re all girls! After being humiliated by their leader, the pretty Misaki Shizuka, he vows revenge and starts a lengthy battle between the sexes at the school.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: ecchi, humorous, light, sexy, feel good, unusual plot structure, entertaining, manga
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Zombie Hunter Rika (2008)
Plot Summary:
When typical Japanese high school student Rika skips school to visit her grandfather, she fails to take into account the fact that his remote village is infested with the living dead.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, campy
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My Rainy Days (2009)
Plot Summary:
Because of her past, 17-year-old Rio lives her days filling the emptiness in her heart with money--until one day, she meets a university professor named Kouki and falls in love.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: romantic, sincere, captivating, shoujo, anime, tear jerker, tearjerker
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The Furthest End Awaits (2014)
Plot Summary:
Set at the edge of the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, with its beautiful scenic views, the film revolves around two women from different backgrounds who develop a friendship, and how they begin to influence and change each other’s lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 298
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: sexy
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Tokyo Shutter Girl (2013)
Plot Summary:
The movie Tokyo Shutter Girl, based on the comic series by Kenichi Kiriki, consists of three separate works by three separate directors, each set in Tokyo. It is about three Japanese schoolgirls in a photo club.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: anthology, sexual
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Sundome New (2017)
Plot Summary:
Hideo's a nerd and a virgin, and he's probably going to stay that way. But when a hot new girl joins his class, he falls for her hard.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, disturbing, manga
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Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl (2009)
Plot Summary:
High school student Mizushima receives Valentines Day chocolates from the new student, Monami. Little did she know that the chocolates contained traces of Monami's vampire blood. He gets infected from eating them and Monami confesses that she wants to live with him forever as vampires. Meanwhile, Mizushima decides that he wants to fully become a vampire with Monami's help. Keiko, Mizushima's girl friend, sees the two on the school rooftop kissing and in a state of hysteria, attempts to throw Monami off the roof but falls off herself instead. Keiko dies but her father, Kenji Furano, the mad scientist, resurrects her as Franken girl. Thus begins a deadly combat between Franken Keiko and Vampire Monami in the name of love.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, stylized, not serious, dark fantasy, splatter, horror comedy, gothic, bloody, suspense
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Sukeban Deka The Movie (1987)
Plot Summary:
After the events of the TV series, the 18 year old Yoko Godai has abandoned her special agent Saki Asamiya name to return to her normal life, and is now studying for college entrance exams. However, she accidentally bumps into a young man named Kazuo Hagiwara trying to escape from a group of hitmen, and learns that he comes from Sankou Gakuen, a private school located in a remote island known as Hell's Castle. The school is ruled by a former revolutionary thought to be dead named Hattori who is trying to brainwash students into terrorists to help him stage a fascist coup d'etat in Japan.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, weird
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Yo-Yo Girl Cop (2006)
Plot Summary:
Recruited by a clandestine police organization, "K" must stop a plot by student radicals to create anarchy in Japan. Armed with a hi-tech steel yo-yo, and a new name (Asamiya Saki), she must infiltrate an elite high school to find the terrorists but finds an even more sinister plan is about to unfold.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, stylized, serious, suspenseful, fast
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Yakuza-Busting Girls: Duel in Hell (2010)
Plot Summary:
Asami returns exhausted after three years of intense training to become a yakuza hunter. She decides to visit her old master, Inokuma, who runs a bar. However, she finds his place in ruins and nothing is as it was when she left. As it turns out, the local yakuza had turned it into a gambling house and laid claim to the entire area with the help of a cold-blooded killer named Akira. Akira is relentless, and utilizes cruel tactics when anyone dares get in her way.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: exciting, stylized, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, splatter
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The Executioner (1974)
Plot Summary:
Three street toughs are hired to take down a Tokyo drug dealer in this hard-hitting Toei karate action film.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 646
Genere: Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Tag (2015)
Plot Summary:
Female highs school students, including Mitsuko, Keiko and Izumi, become the targets of ghosts with various appearances including a groom with a pig's face and female teacher with a machine gun.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, suspense, surreal, tense, captivating, splatter, psychological, mind bending, psychedelic, bloody
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Schoolgirl Complex (2013)
Plot Summary:
At an all female high school, a senior of the radio club becomes fascinated with the club's newest member. As graduation nears and the summer heat rises, so does the sexual tension between the girls.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sentimental, romantic, sexy, touching, unusual plot structure, melancholic, erotic
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Saki Achiga-hen: Episode of Side-A (2018)
Plot Summary:
Sequel movie to the live-action Saki TV series.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, sincere, unusual plot structure, suspense, contemplative
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D.E.B.S. (2004)
Plot Summary:
The star of a team of teenage crime fighters falls for the alluring villainess she must bring to justice.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, sexy, not serious, exciting, offbeat, light, satirical, cult classic, teen, stylized