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Plot Summary:
What comes around goes around...even from beyond the grave. Most criminals are only concerned with earthly justice - the laws of man. All too often, the guilty go free, their deeds unpunished. But there is another law. Deep within the spirit world, the wrongful dead seek retribution for the crimes against them by the living. These restless spirits have their own code of justice, and they've chosen the Judge of Darkness and his Demons of Hell to enforce them. An appeal for justice leads to an investigation of a successful, high-ranking corporate executive. Who would believe he'd be involved with embezzlement and murder? But the Judge of Darkness soon discovers that the roots of corruption run deep as he slowly works his way up the corporate pyramid.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags: anime, psychotronic
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Domain of Murder (1992)
Plot Summary:
On the trail of a missing husband, private investigator Goro crosses paths with a deranged killer.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Animation, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 51 min
Plot tags: anime
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Soujuu Senshi Psychic Wars (1991)
Plot Summary:
When brilliant surgeon Ukyo Retsu removes a cancer from a mysterious old woman, he doesn't realize that the cancer is a 5000 year-old demon. Ukyo must then assume the role of protector of the Earth.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: anime, manga, adult animation, seinen
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Sanctuary (1995)
Plot Summary:
Two Japanese survivors of the Khmer Rouge massacres in Cambodia vow to find a sanctuary, even if they have to build it themselves. Returning to Japan, they take seemingly opposite paths: one becomes a politician, the other a gangster. As Asami and Houjou work through the linked worlds of politics and crime in modern Japan, they don't hesitate to do anything necessary to secure their own positions and stay true to their vow. Loyal to no one else, they find their friendship increasingly tested as they rise in their chosen fields.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Animation, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: anime
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Tokyo Babylon (1992)
Plot Summary:
Subaru Sumeragi, a young Onmyouji sorcerer, investigates a series of unusual murders with the aid of his twin sister and fellow Onmyouji Seishirô.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: anime, detective
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Riding Bean (1989)
Plot Summary:
A superhuman outlaw courier and his female partner/manager are framed for the kidnapping of a millionaire's daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: anime, adult anime, exciting, serious, suspenseful, seinen
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The Garden of Sinners: Overlooking View (2007)
Plot Summary:
When an odd string of suicides begins to occur at a local high rise building, most of the townsfolk treat it as an unfortunate series of events. One girl, however, senses something more sinister at work - especially when a close friend of hers falls mysteriously ill.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, suspense, manga, psychological, exciting, neo noir, detective, dark drama
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Darkside Blues (1994)
Plot Summary:
The Persona Century Corporation has purchased nearly every parcel of land on earth. Dissension is not tolerated within the corporation's borders and those who oppose Persona are dealt with swiftly. Of those few places not yet under Persona's control is the free town of Kabuki-cho, also known as "The Dark Side of Tokyo". Within the town, under the leadership of a woman named Mai, is a small resistance group called Messiah. Into this world steps a man who takes the sobriquet of Kabuki-cho: Darkside. Sealed up in another dimension eighteen years ago by Persona Century, Darkside now returns to aid Messiah using his unique mystic power of renewal.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 567
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, surreal
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The Garden of Sinners: A Study in Murder - Part 1 (2007)
Plot Summary:
August 1995: Mikiya first meets Shiki in a white kimono during a snowing day. Later on, at the high school freshmen ceremony, Mikiya sees Shiki in the crowd and chases after her, introducing himself to her. But Shiki hides a big secret: A wave of bizarre murders occur around many loose ends, and no suspects. there are still many questions: Who to believe? Who is the murderer? What is the secret of Shiki? and especially: Who is SHIKI?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 61 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective, dark drama
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Riki-Oh: The Wall of Hell (1989)
Plot Summary:
The story follows Saiga Riki-Oh, a young man blessed with inhuman strength. After taking revenge against a yakuza boss who was responsible for the death of his girlfriend, he ends up in a maximum security prison owned by a private organization.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: anime, disturbing, seinen, bloody
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The Garden of Sinners: Paradox Spiral (2008)
Plot Summary:
In the middle of October 1998, Enjou Tomoe is attacked by bullies from his old school and saved by Ryougi Shiki. He asks her to hide him at her place and admits that he killed someone. Several days after the incident there are still no broadcasts about the murder as if it didn't happen.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: anime, disturbing, psychotronic, captivating, suspense, manga, adult animation, dark drama, surprise ending, ambiguous ending
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Silent Möbius (1991)
Plot Summary:
In a futuristic Tokyo, several policewomen fight a monster. One of them, Katsumi Liqueur, remembers where she saw it before... Katsumi Liqueur, an American-born woman of Japanese descent, travels to Tokyo to visit her mother, Fuyuka, who is sick in the hospital. She takes a shortcut through an alley after her taxi gets stuck in traffic, only to encounter a monster and two policewomen fighting it. Later, she meets their chief, Rally Cheyenne, who, it seems, has been expecting her, though Katsumi has never met her before. The policewomen want Katsumi to help them fight the monster, but Katsumi, who does not want to believe in magic, resists.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: anime, futuristic, mecha, cyber, cyberpunk anime
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Vampire Wars (1990)
Plot Summary:
The rural American west is the setting for this OVA, in which a bizarre and brutal attack on a NASA base in Arizona attracts the attention of a French secret service agent, Monsieur Lassar, when a dead CIA agent is found floating on the Seine in Paris. Lassar is convinced that these two events are related, and sets out to prove it. His investigation leads him to film star Lamia Vindaw and a vampire cult that may be far more vicious and dangerous than its eccentric exterior makes it seem.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: anime, manga, scary, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, adult animation
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Curse of the Overfiend (1988)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Animation, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: anime, hentai, splatter
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Battle Royal High School (1987)
Plot Summary:
When the school Karate club's star fighter quits and decides to go pro, he unwittingly fulfills an ancient interdimensional prophecy and becomes demon king of his dimension. Soon his high school becomes a battleground for demon slaying samurai, interplanetary law enforcement, and even his own traitorous demon minions. Well animated fight scenes ensue.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: anime
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Kimera (1997)
Plot Summary:
Strange "lifepods" have crashed in the western mountains, bringing with them supernatural beings previously found only in the realm of folk-lore and fantasy. Vampires walk the Earth, at war with Humanity an each other, driven by the most terrifying of genetic imperatives! Like wasps seeking a spider, they have come to this planet for only one purpose: to perpetuate their species. To save Mankind, Kimera must die.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Animation, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: anime, yaoi
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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Sibling's Bond (2019)
Plot Summary:
Tanjiro finds his family slaughtered and the lone survivor, his sister Nezuko Kamado, turned into a Demon. To his surprise, however, Nezuko still shows signs of human emotion and thought. Thus begins Tanjiro's journey to seek out the Demon who killed their family and turn his sister human again. A recap film of Kimetsu no Yaiba, covering episodes 1-5 with extra footage.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Attack on Titan: The Roar of Awakening (2018)
Plot Summary:
Eren Yeager and others of the 104th Training Corps have just begun to become full members of the Survey Corps. As they ready themselves to face the Titans once again, their preparations are interrupted by the invasion of Wall Rose—but all is not as it seems as more mysteries are unraveled. As the Survey Corps races to save the wall, they uncover more about the invading Titans and the dark secrets of their own members.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: anime, manga, exciting, tense, captivating, futuristic, dark fantasy
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Devilman Volume 3: Devilman Apocalyps (2000)
Plot Summary:
Fear runs rampant throughout Tokyo with the revelation that demons in fact exist amongst us. Paranoia and the darker side of humanity boils onto the streets as people turn on one another, suspecting that anyone could in fact be a demon hiding in human clothing. Amidst the growing tensions, tragedy strikes Akira causing his mind to snap, retreating into his subconscious, allowing his Devilish alter-ego Amon to break free from Akira's cage of flesh and wreak havoc on both human and demons alike.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 775
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: anime, adult anime, ecchi
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To Your Last Death (2019)
Plot Summary:
In order to save her siblings, a young woman takes on her father and the powerful entity known as Gamemaster, who ensnares humans into diabolical plots while her species gambles on the outcome.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: adult animation, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, anime, horror comedy, perverse, weird
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Black Butler (2008)
Plot Summary:
In Victorian-era London, on the night of Ciel Phantomhive's tenth birthday, a fire destroyed his manor and killed both of his parents. In a moment of despair, Ciel strikes a deal with a demon - his soul in exchange for revenge. This demon becomes his butler, to protect and serve Ciel until the deal has been completed and calls himself by name of Sebastian Michaelis. One month after the fire Ciel returns from being missing, with his new butler Sebastian. Ciel is now the head of the Phantomhive corporation, handling all business affairs as well as the work as the Queen of England’s guard dog and looking for his parents murders.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, dark fantasy, captivating, suspenseful, semi serious, manga, stylized, shounen, detective
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Silent Möbius 2 (1992)
Plot Summary:
After the death of her mother Katsumi wants nothing more to do with this horrible place known as Tokyo. Forced into staying an infuriated Katsumi returns to AMP HQ where chief Rally Cheyenne pleads with her to stay and join the team. However, her pleading falls on deaf ears as Katsumi exclaims that she wants nothing more to do with them, leaving to find another way home. Meanwhile the Demons taking over Tokyo begin their final move against humanity and the AMP. They realize that the key to opening their demon world lies within Katsumi. Her unwanted abilities mean everything to them and without her their plan would fail. The stage is set once again on the destroyed Tokyo Bay Bridge. Will Katsumi choose her destiny and defend her new found friend or will she fall to the weakness and despair within her?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: anime, futuristic, mecha, cyberpunk anime
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Ghost in the Shell S.A.C. Solid State Society 3D (2011)
Plot Summary:
A new 3D version of Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 520
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, suspense, cyber, visually appealing, cyberpunk anime
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The Garden of Sinners: A Study in Murder - Part 2 (2009)
Plot Summary:
In February 1999, a string of murders has Shiki Ryougi and Mikiya Kokutou on edge. These crimes share a disturbing resemblance to a similar set of homicides from 1995, when Shiki and Mikiya first met, and awaken a dark, murderous desire that has laid dormant within Shiki's soul ever since then.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: anime, adult animation, neo noir, suspense, dark, manga, dark drama, tension, biting, exciting
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The Garden of Sinners: Remaining Sense of Pain (2008)
Plot Summary:
July 1998 - After a group of delinquents is found dead in their hangout place with all their limbs twisted and torn off, Aozaki Touko receives a request to find the murderer and asks Shiki for help. The main suspect is Asagami Fujino; a girl who was the boys' plaything until recently, who Shiki believes to be "one of her kind".
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, manga, dark drama, adult animation, adult anime
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X: The Movie (1996)
Plot Summary:
It's the year of destiny, and 15 year old Kamui Shiro, a powerful psychic, has returned to Toyko after a 6 year absence, having left when he was very young. He wants to be with his childhood friends, Fuma (his best friend) and Kotori, Fuma's little sister (and Kamui's possible girlfriend). He wants to protect them from all dangers, but destiny and fate are haunting Kamui and pulling in himself and his beloved childhood friends. It is his destiny and his sole decision to decide the fate of the world, no matter if he wants the role or not. Now it is a matter of if he will join the side of the Seven Seals and become the Dragon of Heaven to save mankind or join the Seven Angels and become the Dragon of Earth to destroy all civilization so the earth can heal itself from man's destruction.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: anime, apocalyptic, adult anime, perverse, bloody, adult animation, crying
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Bio Hunter (1995)
Plot Summary:
A strange virus known as the Demon Virus, attacks the human genetic code, transforming people into monsters with demonic powers. One particular monster is terrorizing the streets of Tokyo. ripping open young women to devour their livers. A famed psychic holds the secret to the identity and purpose of this monster. Now it is up to two molecular biologists. self-proclaimed Bio Hunters Komada and Koshigaya, to reach the psychic and his beautiful daughter before its too late! The Demon Virus is out to conquer the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: anime, manga, serious, adult anime, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, demonic
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Wicked City (1987)
Plot Summary:
This animated Japanese film is a dark, adult-oriented thriller. A peace treaty between the Earth and the Black World, a parallel universe of spider-like aliens is coming to an end. Two cops, Taki, a human male, and Maki, a female alien, are assigned to protect a diplomat who will help secure another treaty. A radical group of aliens from the Black World are out to assassinate the diplomat and prevent the treaty; only the bond that forms between the two cops can save the Earth from destruction. Sex is strongly associated with violence in many graphic scenes; although this is intended to play a symbolic role, this theme is used excessively. The story is effective, but the film is definitely not for children or anyone easily offended.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: anime, adult anime, adult animation, manga, scary, suspenseful, stylized, neo noir, disturbing, rough
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Final Inferno (1989)
Plot Summary:
As the Overfiend slumbers, the mad emperor Caesar rises to power, enslaving a new race of demon beasts.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 314
Genere: Animation, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: anime, grindhouse, splatter
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Vampire Hunter D (1985)
Plot Summary:
In a far-future time ruled by the supernatural, a young girl requests the help of a vampire hunter to kill the vampire who has bitten her and thus prevent her from becoming a vampire herself.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: gothic, anime, exciting, atmospheric, manga, suspenseful, serious, rough, adult anime, scary
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Todd McFarlane's Spawn (1997)
Plot Summary:
Todd McFarlane's Spawn is an animated television series which aired on HBO from 1997 through 1999. It is also released on DVD as a film series. It is based on the Spawn comic series from Image Comics, and was nominated for and won an Emmy in 1999 for Outstanding Animation Program (longer than one hour).
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: anime, adult animation