Movies and TV shows like Pet Shop of Horrors
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Pet Shop of Horrors (1999)
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Original name: ペットショップ・オブ・ホラーズ / ペットショップ オブ ホラーズ
Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
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Welcome to the most magnificent pet shop in Chinatown! Operated by the shadowy Count D, the shop specializes in rare and hard to come by pets... but with each sale comes a contract. And if that contract is broken, watch out! Detective Orcott has linked many odd and unexplained deaths to Count D's shop. Will he solve the mystery or fall prey to it?
Style:
josei
Plot:
mermaid, police, supernatural, tragedy, curse, anthropomorphism, cookie, dark fantasy, law and order
Place:
china, los angeles
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out seinen, suspenseful, exciting and captivating films and TV series with plots about supernatural, danger, violence, demon, supernatural power, dark fantasy and gore mostly in Animation, Fantasy and Horror genres. Some movies like Pet Shop of Horrors: Mononoke (2007), The Ancient Magus' Bride (2017), Hell Girl (2005), Mushi-Shi (2005), Natsume's Book of Friends (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
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Mononoke is a spin-off of the Bakeneko story arc of Ayakashi - Japanese Classic Horror. It follows the Medicine Seller as he deals with various spirits or "Mononoke" in feudal Japan. Just like in the Bakeneko story, he combats with a ...
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
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Chise Hatori, 15 years old. Lost, without hope, and without family, she is bought for money – not by another person, but by a non-human sorcerer named Elias. Though she hesitates, she begins life anew as his apprentice and future wife.
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
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Hell Girl, also known as Jigoku Shōjo: Girl from Hell, is an anime series produced by Aniplex and Studio Deen. It focuses on the existence of a supernatural system that allows people to take revenge by having other people sent to Hell via the ...
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japan, asia
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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They are neither plants nor animals. They differ from other forms of life such as the micro-organisms and the fungi. Instead they resemble the primeval body of life and are generally known as "Mushi". Their existence and appearance are ...
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japan
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56%
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Natsume Takashi has the ability to see spirits, which he has long kept secret. However, once he inherits a strange book that belonged to his deceased grandmother, Reiko, he discovers the reason why spirits surround him.
Style:
captivating, serious, suspenseful, shoujo
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friendship, spirit, supernatural, ghost, orphan, exorcist, japanese culture, human animal relationship, afterlife, supernatural power, folklore, curse ...
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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With his days numbered, high schooler Yuji decides to hunt down and consume the remaining 19 fingers of a deadly curse so it can die with him.
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disturbing, suspense, captivating, stylized
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paranormal, exorcism, secret organization, occult, tragedy, student, demon, spirit, school life, supernatural, curse, teamwork ...
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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This is Meiro-machi (Labyrinth Town), the town of fortune-telling. In town, there is a fortune-telling shop called Urara, where girls aspiring to be fortune-tellers come from all over the country. Chiya, who was raised in the mountains, comes to the ...
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seinen
Plot:
supernatural, magic, slice of life, kimono, fortune telling
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Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
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The story revolves around Kaiman, who does not remember who he was before he was transfigured by a Magic user. This transformation left him with a reptile's head, and a desire to find out the truth about who he really is. Accompanied by ...
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bloody, enigmatic, exciting, funny, brutal ...
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violence, anthropomorphism, memory loss, hell, human experiment, fictional city, wizards and magicians, friendship, black magic, reptile, revenge, partners ...
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49%
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Genre: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
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Vampires exist. It is the duty of Hellsing, an organization sponsored by the British government, to hide that frightening fact and protect the blissfully unaware populace. Along with its own personal army, Hellsing also has a few secret weapons. ...
Style:
gothic, scary, exciting, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
europe, england, london
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49%
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 300 min.
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When Kouichi Sasakibara transfers to his new school, he can sense something frightening in the atmosphere of his new class, a secret none of them will talk about. At the center is the beautiful girl Mei Misaki. Kouichi is immediately drawn to her ...
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Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Aya Asagiri is a middle school girl who has problems both at school with bullying and at home from physical abuse by her brother. While browsing online, a website pops up on her computer featuring a creepy looking person. This person appears to take ...
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
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A samurai lord has bartered away his newborn son's organs to forty-eight demons in exchange for dominance on the battlefield. Yet, the abandoned infant survives thanks to a medicine man who equips him with primitive prosthetics—lethal ones ...
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Genre: Animation
Country: Japan
Story:
Yuta Okkotsu is a nervous high school student who is suffering from a serious problem—his childhood friend Rika has turned into a curse and won't leave him alone. Since Rika is no ordinary curse, his plight is noticed by Satoru Gojo, a ...
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Genre: Animation, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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There is an urban legend that tells of a shinigami that can release people from the pain they are suffering. This "Angel of Death" has a name—Boogiepop. And the legends are true. Boogiepop is real. When a rash of disappearances involving ...
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Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
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Shigeo Kageyama, a.k.a. "Mob," is a boy who has trouble expressing himself, but who happens to be a powerful esper. Mob is determined to live a normal life and keeps his ESP suppressed, but when his emotions surge to a level of 100%, ...
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Genre: Animation, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 29 min.
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Country: Japan
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Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Spurred by the flame raging in his heart, the Black Swordsman Guts continues his seemingly endless quest for revenge. Standing in his path are heinous outlaws, delusional evil spirits, and a devout child of god. Even as it chips away at his life, ...
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suspenseful, exciting, suspense, rough, disturbing ...
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supernatural, demon, danger, murder, death, violence, sword, blood, military, deadly, hate, anger ...
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40%
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Natsuki Subaru, an ordinary high school student, is on his way home from the convenience store when he finds himself transported to another world. As he's lost and confused in a new world where he doesn't even know left from right, the ...
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enigmatic, exciting, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating ...
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Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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romantic, captivating, light, exciting
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Genre: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 50 min.
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Place:
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Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Genre: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Shuichi Kagaya is an ordinary high school kid in a boring little town. But when a beautiful classmate is caught in a warehouse fire, he discovers a mysterious power: he can transform into a furry dog with an oversized revolver and a zipper down his ...
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Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Japan
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Genre: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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When a series of animal bodies that rot away after a single night begin appearing in a remote mountain village, Inugami, a detective from Tokyo who specializes in the occult, is called to investigate.
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Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 50 min.
Story:
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 ...
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futuristic, suspenseful, serious
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Time:
future
Place:
japan
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36%
Genre: Animation, Action, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
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Once upon a time, fairies were tools of war.
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Plot:
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Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
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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 ...
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gothic
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36%
Genre: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
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Place:
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 23 min.
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After losing their mother to a demon, two brothers grow up fighting supernatural beings.
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serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, macabre ...
Audience:
teens
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Place:
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