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The Big O (1999) NeoDB TMDB Bangumi Douban
THE ビッグオー Season 1 part of TV Series: The Big O
director: Kazuyoshi Katayama / Akira Yoshimura … actor: Mitsuru Miyamoto / Akiko Yajima …
Forty years ago, the minds of Paradigm City's inhabitants were wiped clean of all recollections of the past. Now, ruled by a powerful corporation and cut off from the rest of the world by desolate wastelands, Paradigm has become a virtual police state where Negotiators like Roger Smith keep the wheels of progress, commerce, and society turning.
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Lady Snowblood (1973) TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
修羅雪姫
8.3 (11 ratings) director: Toshiya Fujita actor: Meiko Kaji / Toshio Kurosawa …
other title: Lady Snowblood: Blizzard from the Netherworld / 修羅雪姫 …
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.
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Funky Forest: The First Contact (2005) IMDb TMDB WikiData
ナイスの森〜The First Contact〜
director: Katsuhito Ishii / Hajime Ishimine … actor: Susumu Terajima / Tadanobu Asano …
other title: Funky Forest - The First Contact / Funky Forest : The First Contact …
An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother, his randy older sibling, and the pair's portly Caucasian brother.
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The Bodyguard (1973) IMDb WikiData TMDB
ボディガード牙
director: Ryuichi Takamori actor: Sonny Chiba / Mari Atsumi …
other title: Kiba, der Leibwächter - Seine Rechte mäht wie eine Sense / Le garde du corps …
Karate master and anti-drug vigilante Chiba returns to his home in Japan, where he holds a press conference announcing his intention to wipe out the nation's drug industry. He also offers his services as a bodyguard to anyone who is willing to come forward and provide information about the drug lords' activities. He is soon approached by a mysterious woman claiming to have important information and asking for Chiba's protection. She seems to be legitimate, but is she really what she appears to be?
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Harakiri (1962) Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData
切腹
9.2 (11 ratings) director: Masaki Kobayashi actor: Tatsuya Nakadai / Akira Ishihama …
other title: Haraquiri / 切腹 …
Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku—and a worthy second to deliver the coup de grâce in his suicide ritual. The senior counselor for the Iyi clan questions the ronin’s resolve and integrity, suspecting Hanshirō of seeking charity rather than an honorable end. What follows is a pair of interlocking stories which lay bare the difference between honor and respect, and promises to examine the legendary foundations of the Samurai code.
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Tokyo Dragon Chef (2020) TMDB IMDb
TOKYOドラゴン飯店
director: Yoshihiro Nishimura actor: Yasukaze Motomiya / Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi …
other title: TOKYOドラゴン飯店
Retired Yakuzas open a ramen restaurant and become an overnight sensation, thanks to their recipe developed in prison. But a mysterious upstart gang is taking down every Yakuza family one by one, drawing the chefs back into the gangland underworld once more!
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Ultraman (1966) Douban NeoDB TMDB
ウルトラマン Season 1 part of TV Series: Ultraman
director: Akio Jissoji / Hajime Tsuburaya … actor: Bin Furuya / Susumu Kurobe …
Ultraman is a Japanese tokusatsu science fiction television series produced by Tsuburaya Productions. It is a follow-up to Ultra Q, though not technically a sequel or spin-off. Tsuburaya Productions produced 39 episodes (40, counting the pre-premiere special) that aired on Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) and its affiliate stations from July 17, 1966, to April 9, 1967. Its premiere topped the average rating set by Ultra Q and kept climbing each week, marking the show as a success.
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Hot Spring Shark Attack (2024) TMDB NeoDB IMDb
温泉シャーク
director: Morihito Inoue actor: Shoichiro Akaboshi / Takuya Fujimura …
other title: Hotspring Sharkattack / 温泉シャーク
In a small hot spring town in Japan, a ferocious ancient shark reawakens and begins terrorizing the local hot spring facilities. As the threat escalates, the townspeople band together to protect their beloved town from the menacing predator, leading to a fierce and thrilling battle.
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Demon Pond (1979) IMDb WikiData TMDB
夜叉ヶ池
director: Masahiro Shinoda actor: Tamasaburō Bandō V / Gō Katō …
other title: L'Étang du démon / El estanque endemoniado …
When a lone traveler stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed in a whirlpool of myth, mystery, and magic: in a nearby pond reside spirits who hold the fate of the town’s inhabitants, including lovers Akira and Yuri, in their hands.
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Throne of Blood (1957) Douban IMDb TMDB NeoDB WikiData
蜘蛛巣城
director: Akira Kurosawa actor: Toshirō Mifune / Isuzu Yamada …
other title: Il trono di sangue / Blodets trone …
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit's prophecy by murdering his lord and usurping his place. Director Akira Kurosawa's resetting of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in feudal Japan is one of his most acclaimed films.
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Ghost in the Shell (1995) Bangumi NeoDB IMDb WikiData o00o garage Douban TMDB
GHOST IN THE SHELL
8.5 (58 ratings) director: Mamoru Oshii actor: Atsuko Tanaka / Akio Otsuka …
other title: Ghost in the Shell: Cidade Assombrada / Ghost in The Shell …
In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster' begins involving them in politics, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop the Puppetmaster.
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Mothra (1961) TMDB WikiData IMDb
モスラ
director: Ishirō Honda actor: Frankie Sakai / Hiroshi Koizumi …
other title: Mothra bedroht die Welt / MOTHRA …
Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expedition that discovers a surviving native population along with the Shobijin, tiny twin fairy priestesses of the island's mythical deity called Mothra. After the fairies are kidnapped by an exploitative businessman named Clark Nelson, Mothra sets out to rescue them.
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Evil of Dracula (1974) TMDB IMDb WikiData
血を吸う薔薇
director: Michio Yamamoto actor: Toshio Kurosawa / Mariko Mochizuki …
other title: La rosa che succhia il sangue / Chi o suu bara …
A professor takes up a new post at an all-girls school only to discover the principal concealing a dark secret.
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Tokyo Godfathers (2003) Douban NeoDB IMDb TMDB
東京ゴッドファーザーズ
8.5 (31 ratings) director: Satoshi Kon actor: Aya Okamoto / Yoshiaki Umegaki …
other title: Padrinhos de Tóquio / 東京ゴッドファーザーズ
On Christmas Eve, three homeless people living on the streets of Tokyo discover a newborn baby among the trash and set out to find its parents.
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Lady Battle Cop (1990) IMDb TMDB WikiData
女バトルコップ
director: Akihisa Okamoto actor: Azusa Nakamura / Kisuke Yamashita …
other title: Lady Battlecop / 女バトルコップ …
When a four-man terrorist group known as Team Phantom begins raising havoc in downtown Tokyo, the city is in desperate need of a hero. An unexpected champion appears in the form of Lady Battle Cop, a former female tennis champion who has been transformed into a seemingly unstoppable cyborg.
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The Vampire Doll (1970) TMDB IMDb WikiData
幽霊屋敷の恐怖 血を吸う人形
director: Michio Yamamoto actor: Kayo Matsuo / Akira Nakao …
other title: A Noite do Vampiro / Legacy of Dracula …
A young man goes missing after visiting his girlfriend's isolated country home. His sister and her boyfriend trace him to the creepy mansion, but their search becomes perilous when they uncover a gruesome family history.
Dec. 8, 2025 watched
Spookier than what preceded it (Attack of the Puppet People) in #Monsterdon.

Watched on #MonsterMiru #WatchParty after #Monsterdon on Mastodon
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