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Plot Summary:
Summer 1995. With the arrival of the "Age of Cats", the former Kerberos police unit is now disbanded. However one member remains, a stray dog who returns to his old roost after a three-years exile. This wild dog no longer has a master, but now the "Young Lady of Fate" will guide him on his journey.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 826
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: surreal, anime, experimental, claymation, offbeat, humorous, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious, surprise ending
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009-1: The End of the Beginning (2013)
Plot Summary:
Marking the 75th anniversary of his birth, Shotaro Ishinomori's classic spy heroine manga "009-1" has been adapted into a live-action motion picture for the first time ever.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 659
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: anime
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K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces (2008)
Plot Summary:
In an alternate version of 1949 Japan in which World War II never happened, the Japanese capital of Teito is home to both an ultra rich upper class and the dirt poor masses. The city is thrown into a state of panic when a phantom thief called “The Kaijin (Fiend) with 20 Faces” (K-20 for short) begins to use his mysterious abilities to steal from the rich and give to the poor. One day a circus acrobat named Heikichi Endo (Takeshi Kaneshiro) is framed for K-20’s crimes and becomes determined to clear his name. He teams up with K-20’s next target, a wealthy duchess named Yoko Hashiba (Takako Matsu) and her detective fiancé (Toru Nakamura), to take K-20 down once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, epic, fast, detective, surprise ending
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Pistol Opera (2001)
Plot Summary:
As one of Suzuki's last fims, it is related to his 1967 Branded to Kill, either as a remake or sequel. The plots of both films involve a third-ranked hit man deposing the top-ranked hit man to claim the top rank.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychedelic, atmospheric, realistic, serious, experimental, stylized, crime drama, cult classic, offbeat
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Dead or Alive: Final (2002)
Plot Summary:
Set in a post apocalyptic Yokohama where the population is kept under rigid control by a homosexual megalomaniac mayor. The citizens are administered drugs to suppress heterosexual urges. Officer Takeshi Honda (Riki Takeuchi) is a hard boiled cop enforcing the mayor's agenda, and Ryō (Show Aikawa) is a mellowed out drifter that hooks up with a gang of rebels. When the gang kidnap Takeshi's son, it begins a series of events leading to an inevitable showdown.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: futuristic, surreal, exciting, rough, serious, stylized, suspenseful, heroic, cyber, crime drama
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Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl (1998)
Plot Summary:
In dreamlike mountain scenery, Toshiko makes a daring escape from her sexually warped Uncle Sonezaki. Fortunately, she met Samehada as she runs for her life, which is also escaping from some slayers. What follows is a wild chase that leads the audience into a comically violent world.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Mystery, Action, Thriller, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: disturbing, manga, dark comedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, surreal, stylized, semi serious, fast
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How to Get Rid of the Others (2007)
Plot Summary:
A satirical drama revealing the consequences of the Danish government's "New Copenhagen Criteria", a new policy aiming at securing the nation's survival. Citizens who fail to meet the criteria - those who have received more from society than what they have contributed - are eliminated.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Denmark
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, thought provoking, suspenseful, semi serious
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Resurrection of the Little Match Girl (2002)
Plot Summary:
To Chinese restaurant delivery boy 'Ju', the only joy in life is spending time at the electronic game room. One day, 'Ju' who was engrossed in an electronic game as usual, is advised to log-on to a game called RESURRECTION OF THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL. The match selling girl of Andersen's fairytale is revived through the game, and 'Ju' is drawn into the little girl's virtual reality. As reality and cyberspace interchange, 'Ju', like in the famous fairytale, is given the mission to save the little girl from danger and lead her to a peaceful death. However, the two are not only confronted by a gigantic force called the System, that attempts to stop them, but other obstacles that place their lives in danger.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, stylized, cyber, cult classic, humorous, semi serious, cult film
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City Zero (1988)
Plot Summary:
An engineer in charge of the production line of a factory in Moscow is sent to a small town to try to specify the distributor the new dimensions of a mechanic part they need. But in this town everybody seems to be crazy (a secretary who works naked, a group of people take the engineer as a rock & roll player, etc) and, in addition, this man is witness of a suicide, so he is trapped inside the town.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: surreal, heartfelt, atmospheric, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy, cult film
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Assault Girls (2009)
Plot Summary:
Three women and one man - with an assortment of weaponry - wage war against giant mutant sandwhales in a barren digital landscape, all to achieve points within the virtual reality video game called Avalon.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: exciting, bleak, suspenseful, serious, contemplative, offbeat, epic, stylized
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Hanzo the Razor: The Snare (1973)
Plot Summary:
Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Itami enforces the law without regard to status. He shows inadequate respect to the treasurer, who wants him dead.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: splatter, rough, offbeat, serious, captivating, realistic, stylized, sexual, jidai geki, grindhouse
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The Michelle Apartments (1995)
Plot Summary:
A black comedy that sees a man on a business trip gets mixed up in the lives of the inhabitants of a low-rent apartment building, including a femme fatale with murder on her mind.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, sexual, black comedy, sexy
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Detective Doberman (1977)
Plot Summary:
The burned remains of a young woman discovered in Shinjuku, Tokyo. The police comes to the conclusion that its the work of a pyromaniacal serial murderer. The murder victim is identified as Mayumi Tamaki, a native of Ishigaki, Okinawa. As the investigation unfolded, her former boyfriend, a former rider of a motorcycle named Chōei Mikawa emerged as a suspect. But Kano did not agree Mikawa is the suspect. Kano started conducting the investigation himself to search the real criminal person.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 595
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: crime drama, exciting, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, neo noir, detective, black comedy, dark comedy
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Fudoh: The New Generation (1996)
Plot Summary:
In order to settle a business dispute, a mob leader murders one of his own teenage sons. The surviving son vows to avenge his brother's death, and organizes his own gang of teenage killers to destroy his father's organization.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: neo noir, controversial, crime drama, action thriller, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surreal, black comedy
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Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City (2010)
Plot Summary:
Zebra City 2025 – music echoing across what used to be Tokyo from Zebra Queen marks the start of Zebra Time, a 5 minute window twice a day when the city population is free to commit any crime and the Vengeful Zebra Mini-Skirt Police and masked Zebra Police can shoot civilians at will. Zebraman wakes in the street, unable to remember the last 15 years, or his superhero past. He must rely on a band Zebra Time survivors, a man who played him in a TV show version of Zebraman and a mysterious silent girl to battle this Zebra obsession that is splitting the city in to absolutes of black and white.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 805
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: exciting, futuristic, stylized, semi serious, humorous, weird, campy
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Casshern (2004)
Plot Summary:
Fifty years of war between the Great Eastern Federation and Europa - now merged as Eurasia - have taken their toll on planet Earth. As a result of the use of biological, chemical and nuclear weapons, much of Earth has become uninhabitable and people have become prey to new diseases. Professor Azuma's "neo-cell" project, which is supposed to be the answer to mankind's hardships, becomes a nightmare come true when mutants spawned from the experiment escape and declare war on the human race. Azuma's son Tetsuya, who was killed during the previous war, is reborn into the cyborg Casshern as mankind's last hope against the new mutant threat. This live-action sci-fi movie based on a 1973 Japanese animé of the same name.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: stylized, intense, exciting, suspenseful, apocalyptic, anime, cerebral, cyber, mindfuck, futuristic
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Wicked City (1992)
Plot Summary:
Based on the popular Japanese sci-fi comic strip, "Wicked City" is about a futuristic Hong Kong on the verge of a take over by the Reptoids--ruthless monsters disguised as humans. They work amongst us, they live within us and their destiny is our demise. Packed with non-stop action and special effects, "Wicked City" will glue you to the screen until the astonishing end.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Japan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: anime, manga, exciting, atmospheric, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, allegory
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Monday (2000)
Plot Summary:
A simple funeral turns a man's world upside down.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, humorous, captivating, black comedy, dark comedy, cult classic, mindfuck, clever, offbeat, realistic
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The Woman Sharper (1963)
Plot Summary:
Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Diamond Fuyu is less ethical, and allows the idiotic Tetsu to trick a schoolgirl he fancies, Hanako, into a type of bonded prostitution. Because of gang conflict, the Izu family (to whom Katsuta belongs) has their last gambling den taken over, and he seeks revenge. This brings him back into contact with a former lover who is also a card trickster - she is also Diamond Fuyu's sister, and is now married to Okaru-Hachi, who has mastered a clever card cheating trick called Okaru, which involves the deft use of mirrors.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: offbeat, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
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World's End (2010)
Plot Summary:
Wes Keller is a young man living in a world where oil has collapsed, the food supply has been wiped out, and cancer rates for women have skyrocketed, depleting the female population. In a barbaric environment where bio fuel, batteries, bullets and people are currency and marauders roam free, Wes tries to escape to a mythical world run on cold fusion "Plutopia", a place that may only exist in the mind. THE BILL IS DUE. 'Downstream' is a view of the not so distant future. We follow a young man (everyone's son) as he pays the price for society's decadence.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, thought provoking, serious, surreal, apocalyptic, captivating, psychological, bleak, suspenseful
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Tank Girl (1995)
Plot Summary:
Based on the British cult comic-strip, our tank-riding anti-heroine fights a mega-corporation, which controls the world's water supply.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: stylized, futuristic, exciting, cult classic, slapstick, apocalyptic, offbeat, semi serious, visual, black comedy
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2009: Lost Memories (2002)
Plot Summary:
There are breakpoints in the history, the result of a single event may change the whole course. In 1909, an assassination attempt of a Japanese governor fails. Now, in 2009, Korea is just another state of Japan's Empire & Seoul has become a major city. A Korean resistance group fights for liberty, independence & the restoration of true history. Two cops, Japanese & Korean, investigate the group.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, serious, stylized, cyber
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Avalon (2001)
Plot Summary:
In a future world, young people are increasingly becoming addicted to an illegal (and potentially deadly) battle simulation game called Avalon. When Ash, a star player, hears of rumors that a more advanced level of the game exists somewhere, she gives up her loner ways and joins a gang of explorers. Even if she finds the gateway to the next level, will she ever be able to come back to reality?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, Poland
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: bleak, stylized, cyber, atmospheric, surreal, intellectual, suspenseful, serious, cerebral, apocalyptic
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The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz (2000)
Plot Summary:
The last day of creation. A stranger arrives in London. No one knows who he is or where he has come from. By the time he leaves, the entire universe will have been erased.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: surreal, exciting, mind bending, humorous, futuristic, suspenseful, semi serious, disturbing, clever, offbeat
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The Matsugane Potshot Affair (2006)
Plot Summary:
When a gold ingot and a severed human head are discovered in a small provincial town, the rush to solve the curious case wavers between tragic and darkly humorous.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, offbeat, realistic
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Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)
Plot Summary:
Hard man Ricky is incarcerated in a futuristic prison where ultra-violence is his only means of survival in the corrupt, sadistic system. He must battle his way quite literally 'through' the feared 'gang of four', and undergo multiple tortures before facing the governor in one of the goriest climaxes ever seen.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: bloody, black comedy, dark comedy, funny, surreal, disturbing, controversial, splatter, manga, horror comedy
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Dragon Head (2003)
Plot Summary:
Teru Aoki (青木 輝) is on a train to Tokyo after a school trip. A disaster occurs which partially destroys the train and blocks a tunnel. When Teru awakes, he finds all his classmates and teachers are dead.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 829
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, apocalyptic, serious, surreal, mysterious, cult classic, bleak, disaster movie, cult film
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The Princess Blade (2001)
Plot Summary:
Yuki is the last surviving royal of the House of Takemikazuchi or Takemikazuchi no Hime (たけみかずち の ひめ), who live in a futuristic post-apocalyptic isolationist world where they use their skills as former Mikado guards to become hired assassins. The wise old sage Kuka, who was once Yuki's mother's bodyguard, gives Yuki information that changes her life—and her destiny. She discovers that Byakurai has a dangerous connection to Yuki. After learning this information she chooses to leave the House of Takemikazuchi. She soon encounters Takashi, leader of the rebel movement, who offers Yuki a chance at revenge—and perhaps love. They soon discover similarities for they are both trying to escape the past to start new lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: stylized, serious, suspenseful, fast, neo noir, futuristic, thought provoking, brutal, enigmatic, bad ending
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Zeiram (1991)
Plot Summary:
Teppei and Kamiya, two average joes working in the electronic services industry, stumble upon the intergalactic bounty-hunter Ilia, and her partner, the artificial intelligence named Bob. Both men are accidentally transported to the Zone, a virtual reality in which Bob has trapped Ilia's latest prey, a biological weapon named Zeram. The Earth natives must both survive the experience and help Ilia capture Zeram before the Zone disappears around them.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 799
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, offbeat, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious, avant garde
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Shepherd (1998)
Plot Summary:
aka Cybercity It's the year 2017, the Earth's surface is destroyed and its citizens flee to an underground wasteland ruled by warring religious cults. In this sinful cybercity, Mercenary Dakota's (C. Thomas Howell) family is murdered by a perverse virtual prophet (Roddy Piper) bent on world domination. Seeking justice, Dakota, beautiful assissin Lilith (Heidi Von Palleske) and an arsenal of hi-tech weaponry battle for the Earth's most precious resource - Humanity. It's time for the false prophets to meek their makers! Packed with innovative special effects and teeth-clenching action, "CyberCity" will make you rethink the millennium.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 534
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: futuristic, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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Happily Ever After (2007)
Plot Summary:
Director Yukihiko Tsutsumi wrings laughs out of an unlikely topic -- domestic violence -- in this dark comedy about noodle-shop waitress Yukie Morita (Miki Nakatani), who puts up with the fiery temper, gambling and cruelty of her shiftless, ex-gangster boyfriend (Hiroshi Abe). But as flashbacks reveal, there's a reason behind Yukie's unconditional love for her man. Yûko Natori and Mayumi Sada also star.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: stylized, humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat