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Plot Summary:
Whether it's someone mixing burnables and recyclables or noise from a neighbor's domestic spat, there's always something occupying the residents of a housing project in the suburbs of Osaka. However Hinako (Naomi Fujiyama) and Seiji (Ittoku Kishibe) couldn't care less. Having moved in just six months ago after the closure of their herbal medicine shop, the old couple is reluctantly putting their life back together. But when Seiji disappears, the apartment rumor mill churns: divorce, murder, dismemberment? As the story spins out of control, and a mysterious man with a parasol puts in a tall order of natural remedies, the truth turns out to be even more fantastic than gossip. Ranging from incisive comedy of errors to absurdist adventure to moving late life romance, "The Projects" is one of the biggest surprises of the year.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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Deep Contact (1998)
Plot Summary:
A comet is on a collision course with Earth. Cynical and indifferent nihilist loner Wataru is kidnapped and taken to a secret hospital where chief scientist Dr. Ohora informs Wataru that he possesses a special psychic power called Sexual Psychokinesis that could help save mankind. Wataru has to make love to Ikuko, a sweet and virginal young lass with the same psychic powers, in order to effectively avert Armageddon.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: pink cinema
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The Many Faces of Ito (2018)
Plot Summary:
Seijiro Ito possesses good looks, but also has an overinflated ego. He gets involved with five different women. Rio Yazaki is one of the women involved with Seijiro Ito. She wants to revive her career as a screenwriter, by using other people's unhappiness.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags:
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Oh! Invisible Man (2010)
Plot Summary:
Live action adaptation of the cartoon and comic. The story focuses on a high school boy who boards with an all-female family. When he discovers that he can turn invisible, it naturally leads to risque situations, particularly involving the girls that he lives with.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 61 min
Plot tags: manga, sex comedy, independent film
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Enoshima Prism (2013)
Plot Summary:
Shuta (Sota Fukushi), Saku (Shuhei Nomura) and Michiru (Tsubasa Honda) have been best friends since they were kids. Tragedy strikes the friends when during the winter of 2010, Saku dies from a heart attack. After Saku's death, Shuta and Michiru become more distant. On the third year anniversary of Saku's death, Shuta boards a train in the Enoshima subway. Somehow, Shuta travels back in time to 2010, before Saku died from a heart attack. Although Shuta is confused by the time change, he attempts to save Saku by changing the past.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Foreboding (2017)
Plot Summary:
Miyuki tells Etsuko that she has a ghost in her home. When Etsuko goes to her home, there is only her father there. Etsuko takes her to the hospital, Miyuki receives a diagnosis that she lacks the concept of 'family'.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 378
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: psychological, unusual plot structure, suspense, contemplative, visually appealing
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Adrift in Tokyo (2007)
Plot Summary:
Leading a lazy life, Fumiya has been a university student for 8 years and owes money to loan sharks. One day, a man named Fukuhara comes to collect the loan, which Fumiya cannot pay. So Fukuhara makes a proposition: He will cancel the debt as long as Fumiya agrees to walk with him across Tokyo to the police station of Kasumigaseki, where he intends to turn himself in for a crime he deeply regrets. Not having much choice, Fumiya accepts the deal. Thus begins their journey which will lead them to various unusual encounters, most of all with themselves.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, captivating, psychological, light, relaxing, clever, touching, offbeat, talky
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The Curtain Rises (2015)
Plot Summary:
Saori (Kanako Momota) is a high school student at a provincial city. She is a member of playgroup at her school. Yoshioka (Haru Kuroki) begins to work at the same high school as a new teacher. Yoshioka performed in plays when she was in college back in Tokyo. Saori, Yukko (Shiori Tamai), Garuru (Reni Takagi), Nakanishi (Momoka Ariyasu), Akemi (Ayaka Sasaki) decides to compete in a play competition. Their goal is to make it through the regional competions, but Teacher Yoshioka tells them their aiming low and that they should think about the national competition.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 452
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags:
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The World Sinks Except Japan (2006)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2011 the greatest tectonic disaster in the history of mankind has occurred. As a result of the catastrophic earthquakes North and South America, Eurasia, Africa and Australia have sunken underwater while the Japanese islands remain untouched.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 418
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, disaster movie
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Tomorrow Ever After (2016)
Plot Summary:
Shaina lives 600 years in the future. War, greed, prejudice, poverty, pollution, violence, loneliness, depression – these are things that she’s read about in history books. When an accident in a physics experiment sends her on a time-travel journey to our times, she assumes that everyone around her is honest, generous and caring, as she recruits the help that she needs to get back home.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Molester Train: Ninja Time Slip (1984)
Plot Summary:
1615. Ninja Sarutobi Sasuke is assigned the task of finding a hidden treasure that will restore his clan to their full power. However, sexy ninja warrior Kagero stands in Sasuke's way. Complications ensue when a sudden time warp occurs and both Sasuke and Kagero find themselves thrust hundreds of years into the future to Tokyo, Japan in 1984.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags:
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Time Adventure: 5 Seconds Til Climax (1986)
Plot Summary:
A young woman who is prone to romantic dreams involving her supervisor time-travels from 1986 to 2001 and becomes involved with a private investigator who is working on a divorce case and is having his own marital difficulties.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: erotic, ecchi
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Cats Don't Come When You Call (2016)
Plot Summary:
Mitsuo is a boxer who prefers dogs but ends up looking after two cats that his brother rescues.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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The Family Complete (2010)
Plot Summary:
A highly contagious incest virus induces several generations of a Japanese family to have sex in all possible constellations and across gender boundaries – and with that man in a bear costume who suddenly appears? Only in Japan!.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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Molester Commuter Bus (1985)
Plot Summary:
When the Groper Train director takes the bus ... From director of Serial Rape-Murderer.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags:
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Moon Man (2022)
Plot Summary:
Working as a maintenance crew member on the moon, Duguyue is left behind after the evacuation mission forgets about him. A meteorite then destroys planet Earth, leaving him as the only man left alive in existence.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: China
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, futuristic, satirical, disturbing
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Drugstore Girl (2003)
Plot Summary:
Pharmaceutical student, Keiko witnesses her boyfriend having an affair. Shocked and disappointed, she jumps on a train ("destination anywhere, east or west, she don't care") and ends up in a town named Masao in Tokyo's remote suburbs. There, she gets a part-time job at a newly opened drugstore. What do ya know.. The local shopping district's middle-aged men all fall for the young girl's charms, and they start practicing lacrosse once they have found out that that's her favourite sport.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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April Fools (2015)
Plot Summary:
Ayumi Nitta is a member of a hospital cleaning staff and suffers from extreme social anxiety. After having a one-night stand with genius surgeon and sex addict Wataru Makino, Ayumi discovers she’s pregnant. However, when she tells Wataru, he dismisses her claim as a bad April Fools joke. Refusing to believe he could possibly be the father of Ayumi’s baby after just one night together, Wataru takes a woman named Reiko on a date to an Italian restaurant. However, Ayumi also shows up, leading to a major incident.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 513
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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End of Days, Inc. (2015)
Plot Summary:
A group of laid-off workers bribed into working one last night discover that processing the last of their "inventory" will lead to cataclysmic consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 541
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, semi serious, psychotronic, black comedy, dark comedy
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The Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit (2008)
Plot Summary:
When heads of state gather at the G8 summit in Japan, Guilala -- the intergalactic monster that had been banished from the earth in The X from Outer Space -- returns to ravage the Japanese countryside and threaten the world leaders. Military strikes prove futile against the beast, but a reporter learns that one rural community possesses a strange ritual that might influence the creature. Minoru Kawasaki directs this campy satire.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: captivating, satirical, semi serious, retro, daikaiju
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Bubble Fiction: Boom or Bust (2007)
Plot Summary:
It's 2007 and the Japanese Ministry of Finance have calculated that the economy will collapse in two years' time. They intend to prevent this by sending home appliance designer Mariko back in time 17 years using a time machine she accidentally invented. However, things don't go as planned and Mariko's daughter, Mayumi, is also sent back to find her mother and save Japan's economy.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags:
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Nympho Diver: G-String Festival (1981)
Plot Summary:
A once thriving Japanese village is in dire need of young, beautiful ladies to help with diving duties. Times are tough and the current diver is definitely no spring chicken, so the mayor’s son finds some beautiful maidens to fill the position. Plot quickly takes a back seat, as the arrival of the new recruits gets a rise out of the village’s male members. Let the sex games begin! Culminating in a celebration in which the new diving girls parade around in their tiny bathing suits to bring in cash-laden tourists, this film is a crazy, comedic take on timeless Japanese traditions.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: sexploitation film
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Nurse Girl Dorm: Sticky Fingers (1985)
Plot Summary:
A group of sexy young nurses who work at a local hospital live in dormitory housing provided by the hospital. The hospital also provides the dorm's supervisor, a strict older nurse who runs the dorm with an iron fist. The nurses have to find "creative" ways to sneak their boyfriends into their rooms for some steamy sex sessions.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: pink cinema, sexploitation film
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G-Loc (2020)
Plot Summary:
With Earth virtually destroyed, Bran Marshall flees to Rhea, a nearby planet now hostile towards "Earthers". Escaping onto a Rhean supply ship, he finds the crew slaughtered, with the only survivor a female warrior named Ohsha. As the two try to kill one another, the ship is damaged by meteorites. Bran and Ohsha must join forces to salvage the craft before it impacts the planet below — and the humans that live there.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: futuristic, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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BUSINESSMEN VS ALIENS (2016)
Plot Summary:
Out of the blue, six people are drafted to defend planet Earth. Lacking any form of team spirit or sense of responsibility, will they succeed? Tasked with preventing alien invasions in a space pit on the moon, their method of prevention is "persuasion.".
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, futuristic
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Absolutely Anything (2015)
Plot Summary:
Eccentric aliens give a man the power to do anything he wants to determine if Earth is worth saving.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: funny, light, melancholic, surreal, absurd, slapstick, hilarious, feel good, humorous, entertaining
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Coneheads (1993)
Plot Summary:
With enormous cone-shaped heads, robotlike walks and an appetite for toilet paper, aliens Beldar and Prymatt don't exactly blend in with the population of Paramus, N.J. But for some reason, everyone believes them when they say they're from France! As the odd "Saturday Night Live" characters settle into middle-class life in this feature-length comedy, a neighbor admires their daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, light, absurd, not serious, satirical, feel good, skit, cult classic, offbeat
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Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes (2020)
Plot Summary:
A cafe owner discovers that the TV in his cafe suddenly shows images from the future, but only two minutes into the future.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, mystic, weird
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Summer Time Machine Blues (2005)
Plot Summary:
A light hearted comedy following a group of friends in a science-fiction club, who spend their summer holidays fooling around at their club house, have a mission to go back into time, using a time machine that appeared out of nowhere, in order to save their summer days from unbearable heat by retrieving the remote control for their air conditioner. But wouldn’t changing the past have an effect on the future? Be prepared for a wild ride regarding time travel with a bunch of whacky characters and theories thrown into the mix.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, light, humorous, captivating, uplifting
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What Planet Are You From? (2000)
Plot Summary:
A highly-evolved planet, whose denizens feel no emotion and reproduce by cloning, plans to take over Earth from the inside by sending an operative, fashioned with a humming, mechanical penis, to impregnate an earthling and stay until the birth. The alien, Harold Anderson, goes to Phoenix as a banker and sets to work finding a mate. His approaches to women are inept, and the humming phallus doesn't help, but on the advice of a banking colleague, he cruises an AA meeting, meets Susan, and somehow convinces her to marry. The clock starts to tick: will she conceive, have a baby, and lose Harold (and the child) to his planet before he discovers emotion and starts to care?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, satirical, erotic, parody, offbeat, witty, semi serious, sexual, sex comedy
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La Belle verte (1996)
Plot Summary:
As part of an intergalactic coalition, a well-meaning space alien volunteers to bring a message of self-actualization and harmony with nature to the one planet rejected by all her peers as incorrigible: Earth.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: captivating, thought provoking, light, humorous, spiritual, esoteric, feel good, motivational, deep, mind blowing