Best movies like Tokyo Ghoul
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Plot Summary:
A Tokyo college student is attacked by a ghoul, a super-powered human who feeds on human flesh. He survives, but has become part ghoul and becomes a fugitive on the run.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: anime, serious, exciting, bloody, suspenseful, stylized, psychological, manga, mystic, crying
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Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable (1973)
Plot Summary:
Following her successful prison break, Scorpion begins this third episode in the series hiding out in a brothel. Her prostitute friend tries to keep her identity secret, but the brothel's madam discovers that Scorpion is the ex-girlfriend of the vice officer who killed her lover.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic, grindhouse, slasher, cult classic, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crying
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Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (1972)
Plot Summary:
After being cruelly set up by a crooked detective named Sugimi (Isao Natsuyagi), whom she loved, Nami Matsushima (aka Matsu the Scorpion) (Meiko Kaji) is sentenced to do hard time in a women's prison, which is run by sadistic and horny male guards. There are 700 other prisoners, making Matsu number 701. Her crime was making a failed attempt to stab Sugimi on the steps of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Headquarters because he used her to win favor with the Yakuza. While in prison she meets inmates like Yuki Kida (Yayoi Watanabe) who was committed for fraud and theft, Otsuka (Akemi Negishi), jailed for burglary and extortion, and Katagiri (Rie Yokoyama) who has been impounded for arson and illegally disposing of a body.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, grindhouse, erotic, slasher, manga, crime drama, cult classic
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KASANE –Beauty and Fate– (2018)
Plot Summary:
Kasane Fuchi (Kyoko Yoshine) is the daughter of a beautiful, legendary actress. Kasane has excellent acting skills as well, but she is not attractive. She has a hard time due to her unattractiveness. Kasane has a lipstick left behind by her late mother. The lipstick holds a strange power. Whenever Kasane applies the lipstick and kisses someone, she takes that person's face. Meanwhile, Nina Tanzawa (Tao Tsuchiya) is a beautiful actress with poor acting skills. She meets Kasane Fuchi and their fates change.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: crying
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Shield of Straw (2013)
Plot Summary:
Ninagawa is a powerful man in Japanese politics and with top economic connections.His granddaughter is then murdered. The suspect is Kunihide Kiyomaru (Tatsuya Fujiwara). Kunihide Kiyomaru has a prior conviction for assaulting and killing a girl 8 years ago. The police could never apprehend the suspect in the prior killing.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan, Taiwan
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, crime drama, suspense, action thriller, stylized, detective
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Black Butler (2014)
Plot Summary:
Set in the year 2020, Shiori Genbo (Ayame Gouriki) runs the large corporation Funtom. Shiori is also a descendant of prestigious noble family Phantomhive of England. As a descendant of the noble family Phantomhive, Shiori solves difficult cases which are ordered by the queen. In order to take revenge, Shiori makes a deal with Butler Sebastian (Hiro Mizushima). Their deal involves Butler Sebastian protecting Shiori until her revenge is fulfilled and then Sebastian will consume her spirit.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, stylized, suspense, manga, anime, cult classic, gothic horror, serious, psychotronic
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Laughing Under the Clouds (2018)
Plot Summary:
In the dawn of the Meiji period, the Gokumonjou, an inescapable prison, has been established in the middle of an enormous lake to counter the soaring crime rates the new era has brought. Serving as the ferrymen are the famous Kumou brothers: the eccentric family head, Tenka; the reckless but noble second son, Soramaru; and the guileless youngest, Chuutarou. In spite of their grim work, the three lead relatively peaceful lives in the ever-cloudy town of Oumi, together with their housekeeper, Shirasu Kinjou. But buried in the long history of Oumi is the legend of the terrifying "Orochi," a serpentine beast that awakens every three hundred years in a human vessel. Unbeknownst to Soramaru and Chuutarou, the actual job of the Kumou family is to seal the Orochi away before it fully revives—or the world will be plunged into destruction. Amid the monster's next resurrection, the Kumou family must find the resolve to keep laughing under the clouds.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, exciting, suspense, suspenseful
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GARO: Fang of God (2017)
Plot Summary:
Ryuga Dogai returns to investigate a new mystery - the theft of Makai Knights armour. Among the victims are Ryuga's old comrades from the Volcity crisis, Takeru and Aguri. The three will face off against an enemy previously though defeated - Zinga.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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God's Left Hand, Devil's Right Hand (2006)
Plot Summary:
What's scary is being a human being, and what's scary is being myself. Truly horrifying things reside inside oneself. The work asks if you can stand the inescapable terror.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, fable
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Versus (2000)
Plot Summary:
Set in the present where a group of ruthless gangsters, an unknown woman and an escaped convict have met, unwittingly, in The Forest of Resurrection, the 444th portal to the other side. Their troubles start when those once killed and buried in the forest come back from the dead, with the assistance of the evil Sprit that has also come back, come back from ages past, to claim his prize. The final standoff between Light and Dark has never been so cunning, so brutal and so deadly. This is where old Japanese Samurai mysticism meets the new world of the gangster and the gun. Gruesome, bloody and positively bold.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, exciting, rough, suspenseful, stylized, bloody, serious, psychotronic, splatter
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Attack on Titan (2015)
Plot Summary:
100 years ago, titans suddenly appeared on Earth. Soon, human civilization veered on collapse due to the titans. Humans then built a giant wall to defend themselves. Within the giant walls, humans lived in peace, but, 100 years later, the giant wall is broken.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: talky, stylized, manga, apocalyptic, action thriller, suspense, shounen, surprise ending, splatter, ambiguous ending
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Death Note (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young man comes to possess a supernatural notebook, the Death Note, that grants him the power to kill any person simply by writing down their name on the pages. He then decides to use the notebook to kill criminals and change the world, but an enigmatic detective attempts to track him down and end his reign of terror.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 89000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, anime, serious, bleak, exciting, suspenseful, psychological, mind bending, disturbing, controversial
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Lady Snowblood (1973)
Plot Summary:
Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. She creates an instrument for this revenge by purposefully getting pregnant. Yuki never knows the love of a family but only killing and revenge.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, suspenseful, bloody, exciting, melancholic, rough, visual, cult classic, stylized, slasher
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Bleach (2018)
Plot Summary:
High school student Ichigo Kurosaki lives an ordinary life,besides being able to see ghosts and the blurry memories of his mother death under strange circumstances when he was a kid. His peaceful world suddenly breaks as he meets Rukia Kuchiki, a God of Death.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, stylized, humorous, entertaining, suspenseful, manga, psychotronic
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Kamen Rider Movie War Ultimatum: Kamen Rider vs. Kamen Rider Wizard & Fourze (2012)
Plot Summary:
The first part is the Kamen Rider Fourze’s place five years after the events of the series. Gentaro is now a teacher at Amanogawa High as well as the Space Kamen Rider Club’s new academic advisor. However, a new school club called the Monster League, comprised by a group of psychic children led by Saburo Kazeta, which is supported by a mysterious man named Kageto Banba. The second part is Kamen Rider Wizard’s portion, where Haruto enters the Underworld of an unknown Gate to investigate the mysterious occurrings of monster appearances. He then runs into a young woman named Yu Kamimura who can become Belle Mask Poitrine and can use magic like him. The third and final part of the film is Movie War Ultimatum. The three Akumaizer from the Underworld to plan to invade the land of the living. Kamen Riders Wizard and Fourze must fight to stop the Akumaizer and their Monster Army.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful
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Garo - Kiba: The Dark Knight (2011)
Plot Summary:
The spirit of Kiba the Dark Makai Knight influenced everything since the beginning. Though he called himself a Makai Knight, Kiba was no different to a Horror. Kiba's spirit resides inside what was once a grey colored Makai Armor that's filled with the dark knowledge of Makai Power. As Barago absorbed Horror after Horror, Kiba eventually deformed into an organically pure black armor with a cape. Kiba assumed full control over his host upon Meisha's defeat by Kouga.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, dark fantasy
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Tokyo Ghoul (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ken Kaneki is a bookworm college student who meets a girl names Rize at a cafe he frequents. They're the same age and have the same interests, so they quickly become close. Little does Kaneki know that Rize is a ghoul - a kind of monster that lives by hunting and devouring human flesh. When part of her special organ - "the red child" - is transplanted into Kaneki, he becomes a ghoul himself, trapped in a warped world where humans are not the top of the food chain.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, dark fantasy, exciting, suspenseful, bloody, serious, manga, seinen, stylized, psychological
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1-Ichi (2003)
Plot Summary:
We follow Ichi during his high school years. Mr. Dai is the best fighter in school... whenever he fights Ichi is there and has a huge smile on his face. Mr. Dai thinks that Ichi is laughing at him but in fact he enjoys watching the violence that goes through the fights. Everyone is bullying, taunting and making fun of Ichi... even little kids from his karate class. Yet Ichi refuses to let go of his anger and fight others. Just when Mr. Dai is about to get Ichi, a new transfer student starts to make his own laws... by beating up everyone and breaking their bones! In a fight with the new student, Mr. Dai ends up on the ground, beaten and broken up from almost everywhere. It seems like this new guy wants to fight Ichi because supposedly he is the only one that could give him some challenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 799
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, exciting, realistic, crying
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The Promised Neverland (2020)
Plot Summary:
A group of the smartest kids at a seemingly perfect orphanage uncover its dark secret, and set in motion a dangerous and desperate escape plan.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 806
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, anime, dark fantasy, manga, shounen, touching
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Death Note (2006)
Plot Summary:
Light Yagami finds the "Death Note," a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to create a Utopia by killing the world's criminals, and soon the world's greatest detective, "L," is hired to find the mysterious murderer. An all out battle between the two greatest minds on earth begins and the winner will control the world.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: anime, rough, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, exciting, suspense, dark, clever, manga
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Devilman (2004)
Plot Summary:
A scientific exploration in search of a new energy source unleashes a group of powerful demons who begin possessing human bodies and destroying civilization. Close friends Akira (Hisato Izaki) and Ryo (Yusuke Izaki) wind up on different sides of this epic struggle. Akira’s inner strength allows him to maintain his identity and fight for good, but the weaker Ryo is completely overtaken by Satan himself.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, manga, romantic, scenic, anime, perverse, futuristic
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Dororo (2007)
Plot Summary:
The hero, Hyakkimaru is a wandering "demon hunter" whose extra body parts -- 48 to be exact -- were grafted onto his head and trunk by a herb doctor who discovered him as an infant, in a process that echoes "Frankenstein" and "The Island of Dr. Moreau." His warlord father gave the originals to 48 demons in exchange for power. When Hyakkimaru kills a demon, he wins back a body part. He is spotted in one of these battles, with a giant spider demon, by Dororo, a scrappy female thief who is fascinated by not only Hyakkimaru's prowess with the sword blade poking out of his arm but the new leg he grows after dicing his opponent. Is he a man -- or a monster? After hearing his story from an old minstrel, she decides to join him on his travels and find out for herself.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, anime, psychological, exciting, suspense, serious, suspenseful, dark fantasy, weird
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Alive (2002)
Plot Summary:
Tenshu is imprisoned and sentenced to death for murdering the men who raped his girlfriend. However, he manages to survive his execution and is presented with an option: face another execution attempt or subject himself to their bizarre and dangerous experiments.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, bleak, serious, weird
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20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope (2009)
Plot Summary:
Set 15 years after "Twentieth Century Boys," Kanna (Airi Taira) reunites with several main characters from the first film in an attempt to stop Friend's increasing influence over the world and continued plans to eliminate humanity, as detailed in the New Book of Prophecy.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, stylized, exciting, manga, anime, offbeat, weird
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Azumi (2003)
Plot Summary:
In war-torn Japan, the Tokugawa Shogun, desperate to restore peace to his people, orders the assassination of the hostile warlords. A beautiful young woman is raised from birth with nine other orphans, to become an assassin. Her name is Azumi, the ultimate assassin.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: intense, breathtaking, realistic, rough, serious, fast paced, epic, stylized, manga, perverse
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Death Note: Light Up the New World (2016)
Plot Summary:
10 years has passed since the confrontation between Kira and L. Again, Shinigami sends death notes to the ground and due to this, the world soon falls into chaos. Tsukuru (Masahiro Higashide) is a member of the Death Note special task force team with 6 other investigators including Matsuda who experienced the Kira case of 10 years ago. Mass murders caused by the death note takes place on Wall Street in the U.S., Shibuya in Japan and other places. World famous private investigator Ryuzaki (Sosuke Ikematsu), who is the rightful successor of L, also investigates the mass murders. They discover that 6 death notes exists in the world. A computer virus called Kira spreads in the world. A message in the Kira virus says to turn in 6 death notes. A person who has 6 death notes overwhelm the world. The confrontation begins between the person who wants Kira’s revival and the people who want to stop it.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: intellectual, anime, psychological, bleak, serious, neo noir, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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Tokyo Ghoul: 'S' (2019)
Plot Summary:
Ken Kaneki is a university student. He is also half-ghoul and half-human. He agonizes over his situation. Trying to avoid other ghouls, he shelters himself at Anteiku Cafe and spends time with Toka Kirishima. One day, a ghoul, Shu Tsukiyama, appears at Anteiku Cafe and he is called the "Gourmet.".
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 587
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, exciting, serious, suspenseful, seinen
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Battle Royale (2000)
Plot Summary:
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 192000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: disturbing, suspense, bleak, bloody, exciting, psychological, splatter, epic, futuristic, harsh
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The Crow (1994)
Plot Summary:
Exactly one year after young rock guitarist Eric Draven and his fiancée are brutally killed by a ruthless gang of criminals, Draven -- watched over by a hypnotic crow -- returns from the grave to exact revenge.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 195000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspenseful, dark fantasy, rough, exciting, atmospheric, stylized, neo noir, scary, brutal
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Spiral (2000)
Plot Summary:
In a small town in Japan, Kirie comes upon her boyfriend's father silently videotaping a snail. Later, the mans obsession with spirals becomes more and more bizarre, ending in his suicide in a washing machine which turn his body into a spiral. Soon other inhabitants become possessed with different forms of spirals.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, psychological, surreal, disturbing, suspenseful, scary, dark fantasy, lovecraft, mind bending, slasher
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Inuyashiki (2018)
Plot Summary:
A middle-aged office worker encounters aliens and is gifted with alien technology and limitless powers.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, anime, serious, captivating, suspense, manga, crying
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