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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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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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Re: Cutie Honey (2004)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious organization known as Panther Claw make their presence known by terrorizing Tokyo and giving the cops a run for their money. Police are further baffled by the appearance of a lone cosplaying vigilante who thwarts all of Panther Claw's evil schemes before disappearing. That cosplayer is Honey Kisaragi, the result of the late Professor Kisaragi's prize experiment. A master of disguise, Honey can instantly alter her physical appearance and outfits. But with a push of the heart-shaped button on her choker, she transforms herself into Cutie Honey, the scantily clad, sword-wielding warrior of love and justice.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: anime, adult animation, ecchi
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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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Malice@Doll (2001)
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Robot prostitute Malice@Doll roams a deserted city unsuccessfully looking for johns after the human race is obliterated in this adult anime tale. With no people left, the android serving class has a meaningless existence. But after a horrific tentacled beast rapes Malice@Doll, she inexplicably turns human. With a renewed purpose in life, she tries to share the gift of humanity with others of her kind.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 257
Genere: Animation, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: anime, hentai, cyberpunk anime
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Ao Oni The Animation (2017)
Plot Summary:
Based on the horror game Ao Oni by noprops. Five members of the cultural anthropology club at an old western-style school are trying to come up with ideas for their presentation at the school's culture festival, when they find a collection of folk tales gathered by a student in their club 40 years ago. They realize that the mysterious Bellflower Oni that appears in the folk tales may be the basis for the popular free game Ao Oni, and decide to make that their theme. They manage to make contact with the author of the Ao Oni game, but he dies mysteriously soon afterward. The club members become suspicious at the author's death and began to investigate on their own, but encounter a secret they never should have touched: a secret underground prison in the school. For some reason all the fire doors at the school are locked, and they are trapped in the school. The sound of the strange footsteps they hear soon turn to their screams...A new tragedy of the Ao Oni is about to begin.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Animation, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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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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Graveyard Kitaro (2008)
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Kitarō is a yōkai boy born in a cemetery, and aside from his mostly-decayed father, the last living member of the Ghost tribe. He is missing his left eye, but his hair usually covers the empty socket. He fights for peace between humans and yōkai, which generally involves protecting the former from the wiles of the latter.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Animation, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, mystical, captivating, suspense, gothic horror, disturbing
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Kurozuka (2008)
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In feudal Japan, Kurou and his servant Benkei are fleeing from Kurou's elder brother, who has recently ascended to the throne. In a forest, they come across a house and a strange woman by the name of Kuromitsu, who agrees to harbor them under one condition: that they do not peer into the inner chambers. Soon, they are attacked by the Red Army; they are searching for Kuromitsu, whose blood holds immortality. Fatally wounded, Kurou drinks some of Kuromitsu's blood and gains immortality along with strange abilities; but shortly after, Kurou is seemingly decapitated and wakes up centuries later in a ruined city. In this twisted future the Red Army is omnipresent and still searching for Kuromitsu’s blood, while a rebel army seeks to keep them from acquiring it. With threats at every turn and fueled by his obsession, Kurou sets forth to find Kuromitsu and seek his revenge on the Red Army.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 514
Genere: Animation, Action, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, dark fantasy, seinen
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Kizumonogatari Part 2: Nekketsu (2016)
Plot Summary:
Koyomi Araragi was turned into a vampire by the legendary vampire, Kiss-shot Acerola-orion Heart-under-blade, and he needs to revive the weakened vampire back to her complete form to return to being human again. The only way for Koyomi to achieve his goal is to fight the three vampire hunters – Dramaturgy, Episode and Guillotinecutter.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, gothic, stylized, humorous
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Curse of the Overfiend (1988)
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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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Urotsukidoji III: Return of the Overfiend (1992)
Plot Summary:
As the Overfiend slumbers, the mad emperor Caesar rises to power, enslaving a new race of demon beasts. Into this cruel existence is born the Lord of Chaos, the Overfiend's nemesis. As the blood-thirsty beasts capture the tyrant's daughter in a brutal coup, the Overfiend must awaken to an apocalyptic battle of the Gods.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 396
Genere: Animation, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 53 min
Plot tags: anime, surreal, hentai, epic, saga
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Black Butler: Book of the Atlantic (2017)
Plot Summary:
Ciel learns of a "Aurora Society", that is rumored to be researching how to bring the dead back to life. Their next meeting is scheduled to be conducted on the ship Campania, voyaging across the Atlantic Ocean. Much to Ciel's dismay, Elizabeth "Lizzy" Midford, is taking the same ship, thus leaving him with no choice but to get aboard as well.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious, shounen, dark fantasy
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Vampire Princess Miyu (1988)
Plot Summary:
Its central characters are a vampire girl named Miyu and her demonic companion Larva. Miyu is the daughter of both a human and a shinma (demon) and as such she was awakened as the guardian whose destiny is to hunt down all stray shinma and send them back to the darkness.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 628
Genere: Animation, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: anime, manga, gothic
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Battle Royal High School (1987)
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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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Urotsukidoji: New Saga (2002)
Plot Summary:
An immortal beast-man of supernatural lusts, Amano Jaku escapes prison to gratify his appetites at Meishin College. But the campus is not just a hotbed of luscious coeds - it's the breeding ground of a hideous monster! The Ultra God is Amano Jaku's nemesis, a vile killing machine, and the ancient harbinger of the coming apocalypse. Now, immortals will clash in a battle that will bathe the Earth in innocent blood!.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Animation, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: hentai, anime
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Zatch Bell! 101st Devil (2004)
Plot Summary:
While the battle to determine the next king of the demon realm has often been fraught, the rules were always clear. 100 demon children partnered with 100 humans would challenge each other, using 100 magical books. What none of them knew was that there was a 101st magical book, powerful enough to stop any of the others. Gash and Kiyomaro must begin a journey that will take them into the demon realm to confront the mysteries of Gash's past. But will they escape in time to help their friends in a battle with a seemingly unstoppable enemy?.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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The Case Study of Vanitas (2021)
Plot Summary:
In 19th-century Paris, young vampire Noé finds the Book of Vanitas in human hands. Calling himself Vanitas, this doctor wields its power and tempts Noé with a plan to “cure” all vampires. Allying with him may be dangerous, but does he have a choice?.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, disturbing, tense
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Twilight of the Dark Master (1997)
Plot Summary:
Tsunami is an ancient gaurdian fom days long ago when the Mother Spirit created Daemons and Gaurdians to aid a fledgling human race. Tsunami becomes involved with a woman who has just lost her fiance and her arm and now wants to figure out why this has happened.Meanwhile the Daemon leader is still alive and plotting to enslave mankind. Will Tsunami defend earth once again or be corrupted as two other gaurdians have been by the Daemon leader.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 572
Genere: Animation, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: anime, manga, futuristic, serious, suspenseful
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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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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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M.D. Geist (1986)
Plot Summary:
Geist (the main character) is MD-02, a Most Dangerous Soldier, genetically engineered to function as a killing machine, but every one of the MDS units went homicidally insane. As a result Geist was placed in suspended animation in a stasis pod orbiting the planet Jerra until it crashed several years later, awakening him and bringing him into another war on the planet.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 838
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, adult anime
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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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Black Magic M-66 (1987)
Plot Summary:
A freelance reporter stumbles on a desperate military operation. An army chopper has crashed and its cargo has been activated. Now there are two killer androids running loose in the wilderness and have the daughter of their inventor as their target. Can the army stop them or can the reporter reach the little girl before the droids do?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious, futuristic, manga, stylized, psychotronic
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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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Dead Space: Aftermath (2011)
Plot Summary:
The End was only the Beginning.The year is 2509 and not only has Earth lost contact with the Ishimura and Isaac Clarke, but now also the USG O'Bannon, the first responder ship sent to rescue them. Four crew members of the O'Bannon have survived. But what happened to the rest of the crew? What were they doing? What secrets are they keeping? All to be revealed...in the Aftermath! --- Dead Space: Aftermath is a fast paced, horrifying thrill ride told through the perspective of the four survivors by several renowned international directors. Dead Space: Aftermath is an animated film that bridges the storyline between the video games Dead Space and Dead Space 2.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: anime, serious, suspenseful, space horror, tense, captivating, futuristic, disturbing, atmospheric, manga
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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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Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned (1980)
Plot Summary:
In contemporary Boston, Dracula gatecrashes a Satanic ritual and makes off with the intended sacrifice, Delores. Overcome with love for her, he's unable to drink her blood and instead settles down with her and fathers a child, Janus. But Dracula's enemies are massing against him - a team of vampire hunters, including the wheelchair-bound Hans Harker, crossbow wielding and new recruit Frank Drake, a descendant of Dracula, are closing in. And Dracula has been stripped of his vampire powers by Satan and he desperately needs another vampire to restore his powers so that he can both see off his pursuers and avenge the death of Janus at the hands of vengeful Satanists.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 424
Genere: Animation, Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: anime, psychotronic
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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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Blood: The Last Vampire (2000)
Plot Summary:
In Japan, the vampire-hunter Saya, who is a powerful original, is sent by her liaison with the government, David, posed as a teenage student to the Yokota High School on the eve of Halloween to hunt down vampires. Saya asks David to give a new katana to her. Soon she saves the school nurse Makiho Amano from two vampires disguised of classmates and Makiho witnesses her fight against the powerful demon.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Animation, Action, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: anime, intense, exciting, rough, suspenseful, adult anime, suspense, surreal, cult classic, manga