Movies like The Red Spectacles

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The Red Spectacles (1987)
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The Red Spectacles (1987)
Original name: 紅い眼鏡
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story: 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...
Style: surreal, anime, experimental, claymation, offbeat, humorous, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious, surprise ending ...
Plot: cyberpunk, superhero, distopia, surrealism, food poisoning, shootout, dark humor, heroes, life is a bitch, rebellion, fighting the system, society, law enforcement, police corruption, lone wolves, mysterious character, dystopian future, violent content, dog, police, cinema, pig, japanese police, dystopia, alternate reality ...
Time: future, 90s, 20th century
Place: japan, asia
Keyword: movie theatre

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Most similar movies to The Red Spectacles

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out stylized, suspenseful, exciting and serious films with plots about rivalry, danger, heroes, deadly, society, dystopian future and superhero mostly in Action, Sci-Fi and Drama genres. Some movies like The Red Spectacles: Assault Girls (2009), Dead or Alive: Final (2002), Avalon (2001), The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz (2000), The Matsugane Potshot Affair (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Assault Girls (2009)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 65 min.
Story: 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.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, bleak, contemplative, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: desert, heroic mission, heroes, contests and competitions, survival, dystopian future, distant planet, danger, life is a bitch, cyberpunk, virtual reality, female protagonist ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl (1998)
Genre: Mystery, Action, Thriller, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: disturbing, dark comedy, manga, fast, surreal ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, superhero, samurai, sex, hitman, runaway, leaving home, escape, gangster, violent content, rivalry, criminal's revenge ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Dead or Alive: Final (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: futuristic, surreal, serious, exciting, rough ...
Plot: cyborgs, cyberpunk, post apocalypse, drug overdose, betrayal, martial arts, pregnancy, dystopian future, androids and robots, police investigation, man versus machine, chaos ...
Time: 24th century, future
Place: japan, hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 6.4
 14K
Avalon (2001)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, Poland
Duration: 107 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: bleak, stylized, cyber, atmospheric, surreal ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: virtual reality, obsession, distopia, game, transformation, battles, fantasy world, contests and competitions, dystopian future, gang, addiction, hacker ...
Time: future, middle ages, near future, 2000s, year 2001
Place: poland, japan, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story: 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.
Style: surreal, exciting, mind bending, humorous, futuristic ...
Plot: taxi driver, save the world, state affairs, human nature, danger, abduction, chaos, law enforcement, dark humor, political unrest, chaos and mayhem, surrealism ...
Time: future
Place: london, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
The Matsugane Potshot Affair (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story: 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.
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, offbeat, realistic
Plot: nothing goes right, police investigation, police detective, law enforcement, silly humor, gangster, disorder, social relations, small town, dark humor, satire, nudity ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Pistol Opera (2001)
Genre: Crime, Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story: 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.
Style: surreal, psychedelic, realistic, atmospheric, experimental ...
Plot: female assassin, hitman, assassin, japanese woman, rivalry, danger, contests and competitions, violent content, assassination, femme fatale, yakuza, children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
How to Get Rid of the Others (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Denmark
Duration: 94 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, thought provoking
Plot: law enforcement, confined, against the rules, political corruption, fighting the system, dark humor, prison, human nature, social decay, life is a bitch, disorder, injustice ...
Time: year 2007
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Detective Doberman (1977)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: crime drama, humorous, semi serious, realistic, offbeat ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, martial arts, tough guy, cop, murder, gangster, rescue, urban, danger, fish out of water, disorder, rivalry ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: asia, japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 7.3
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Monday (2000)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A simple funeral turns a man's world upside down.
Style: captivating, atmospheric, humorous, black comedy, dark comedy ...
Plot: yakuza, gangster, life turned upside down, danger, disorder, dark humor, memory loss, chases and races, gang, coincidence, chase, asian ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Shepherd (1998)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: futuristic, independent film, serious, exciting, bleak ...
Plot: post apocalypse, cyberpunk, distopia, dystopian future, violent content, religions or cults, injustice, chaos, rivalry, heroes, danger, society ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 6.0
 14K
Casshern (2004)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 142 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: stylized, intense, exciting, suspenseful, cerebral ...
Plot: dystopia, good versus evil, vengeance, mutant, superhero, artificial intelligence, rescue, tragic hero, heroic mission, redemption, laboratory, heroes ...
Time: future, near future, distant future
Place: japan, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
2009: Lost Memories (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 136 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, exciting, stylized, cyber
Audience: boys' night
Plot: danger, friendship, assassination, obsessive quest, state affairs, political unrest, dystopian future, gays and lesbians, politics, terrorism, political intrigue, heroic mission ...
Time: 1900s, future, 20th century, 2000s, year 2009
Place: japan, korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Fudoh: The New Generation (1996)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: 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.
Style: controversial, neo noir, action thriller, crime drama, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, revenge, martial arts, badass, triad, violent, mafia, organized crime, superhero, vigilante, mafioso, school ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
The Woman Sharper (1963)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: serious, realistic, offbeat, stylized, suspenseful
Plot: yakuza, gambling, casino, organized crime, gangster, violent content, rivalry, dishonesty, femme fatale, gang, danger, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: asia, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Death Note: L Change the World (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story: "The human whose name is written in the Death Note shall die." After making the hardest decision ever, another serious case confronts L. There are only 23 days left and without his best partner Watari (Shunji Fujimura), L has to solve the ...
Style: bleak, suspenseful, serious, anime, captivating ...
Plot: danger, heroes, terrorism, legends and myths, child in peril, private detective, chases and races, save the world, race against time, against humanity, escapades, heroic mission ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Princess Blade (2001)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: stylized, serious, suspenseful, fast, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: female warrior, martial arts, vengeance, sword fight, rebellion, ninja, heroic mission, dystopian future, rivalry, escapades, danger, love affair ...
Time: future
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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World's End (2010)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: exciting, thought provoking, surreal, atmospheric, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: desert, post apocalypse, dystopian future, danger, on the run, rebellion, vigilantism, social decay, escapades, society, fighting the system, oil ...
Time: future
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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City Zero (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 103 min.
Story: 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, ...
Style: surreal, heartfelt, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: small town life, surrealism, female nudity, life changing, post soviet, town, perestroika, social satire, nudity, society, social relations, dark humor ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: soviet union, russia, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Zeiram (1991)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: semi serious, exciting, scary, suspenseful, stylized ...
Plot: kaiju, alien, monster, exploitation, superhero, creature, giant monster, ufo, body horror, artificial intelligence, outer space, alien encounter ...
Time: future
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
20th Century Boys 1: Beginning of the End (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 142 min.
Story: In 1969, Kenji, an elementary school kid and his friends built a secret base during their summer holidays. They fantasized that they had to fight villains who were out to conquer the world and wrote them in the Book of Prophecies. Years later in ...
Style: anime, stylized, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: rock, childhood, best friend, terrorism, danger, save the world, teenage life, apocalypse, male female relationship, mother daughter relationship, brother sister relationship, giant monster ...
Time: future, 20th century, 90s, 70s, 2000s ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: bloody, black comedy, dark comedy, disturbing, controversial ...
Plot: martial arts, exploitation, gory, violent, kung fu, prison, torture, heroes, society, danger, fighting the system, blood ...
Time: future, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: china, east asia, asia, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Illang: The Wolf Brigade (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 139 min.
Story: In 2029, the elite police squad Illang combats a terrorist group opposing reunification of the two Koreas. But another enemy may be lurking nearby.
Style: captivating, exciting, philosophical, futuristic, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: dictatorship, rebellion, society, criminal, fighting the system, heroes, danger, resistance, outlaw, warrior, distopia, violent ...
Time: future
Place: korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 137 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, stylized, rough ...
Plot: chase, heroes, master criminal, secret identity, danger, rivalry, society, fighting crime, escapades, dishonesty, power relations, imaginary ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Singham Returns (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Singham Returns is an Indian action film directed by Rohit Shetty and produced by Reliance Entertainment. The sequel to the 2011 film Singham, actor Ajay Devgn reprises his role from the previous film, as well as co-producing the project, while ...
Style: semi serious, stylized, humorous, suspenseful, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heroes, gangster, cop as target, fighting crime, dishonesty, love and romance, law enforcement, good versus evil, society, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, one man army ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
009-1: The End of the Beginning (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min.
Story: 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.
Style: anime
Plot: female warrior, spy, cyborgs, zombie, dystopian future, female assassin, female martial artist, superhero, surrealism, murder, tough girl, fistfight ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Resurrection of the Little Match Girl (2002)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 123 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, stylized, cyber, cult classic ...
Plot: virtual reality, surrealism, cyberpunk, woman in danger, imaginary, reincarnation, computers and web, teenager, apocalypse, restaurant, rivalry, switching roles ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, korea, south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Hanzo the Razor: The Snare (1973)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: 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.
Style: splatter, captivating, realistic, serious, offbeat ...
Plot: samurai, female nudity, martial arts, medieval, sexploitation, buried alive, edo period, violent, rape, nudity, violent content, fighting the system ...
Time: middle ages
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Happily Ever After (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: 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, ...
Style: stylized, semi serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat
Plot: couples, couple relations, love and romance, odd couple, hopes, dark humor, misfit, social misfits, peplum, woman
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 5.4
 35K
Tank Girl (1995)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Based on the British cult comic-strip, our tank-riding anti-heroine fights a mega-corporation, which controls the world's water supply.
Style: stylized, futuristic, exciting, slapstick, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: desert, female protagonist, punk, post apocalypse, female warrior, post apocalyptic, kickass women, cyberpunk, wasteland, female fighter, save the world, comic book ...
Time: future, 2030s, near future, 20th century, 21st century
Place: australia, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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