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Another (2012)
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Another (2012)
Original name: アナザー
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: After a chain of deaths at a junior high school, new transfer student Koichi Sakakibara turns to a mysterious girl who holds the key to the dark mystery.
Style: psychological, anime, weird
Plot: junior high school, student, schoolgirl, girl, japanese schoolgirl, live action, eye patch, eyepatch, schoolgirl uniform

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, suspense, suspenseful and disturbing films with plots about live action, danger, supernatural, schoolgirl, superhero, japanese schoolgirl and supernatural power mostly in Horror, Mystery and Drama genres. Some movies like Another: A Peeping Hole (2014), Ajin: Demi-Human (2017), School-Live! (2019), Corpse Party (2015), Reiko, the Psyche Resurrected (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Peeping Hole (2014)
Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Tatsuhiko Kido is a young man who moved from Tokyo to attend a vocational school. Although he thought he had begun his new school life with no problem, he finds a hole in his wall, and sometimes he feels a gaze coming at him from that hole, so he ...
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing, manga
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Ajin: Demi-Human (2017)
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Ajin is a live-action adaptation of a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Gamon Sakurai. Kei Nagai dies in a car accident, but realises he is a type of immortal known as Ajin (demi-human). Hunted by humans, Ajin is eventually found by ...
Style: anime, psychotronic, exciting, suspense, intense ...
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Place: japan, tokyo
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School-Live! (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: psychological, manga, psychotronic
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Corpse Party (2015)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Facing goodbyes and graduation, Naomi Nakashima, her childhood friend Satoshi Mochida, and their classmates, are clearing up after their last ever cultural festival, when horror buff class representative Ayumi Shinozaki decides to perform Sachiko ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Death Note: Light Up the New World (2016)
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Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min.
Story: 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 ...
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Reiko, the Psyche Resurrected (1991)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Reiko, the Psyche Resurrected is a 1991 Japanese film. The film was produced by the Japanese film company Toho.
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Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
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Country: Japan
Duration: 141 min.
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Country: Japan
Duration: 55 min.
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Premonition (2004)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
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Ring (1998)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.
Style: suspenseful, atmospheric, disturbing, splatter, creepy ...
Audience: teens, adult
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Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century, 1950s
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My Little Nightmare: The Movie (2014)
Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
Story: New student Kanji transfers to 6th grade 2 class, where Ayami Mutoi works as the homeroom teacher. Students begin to talk among themselves that they have seen new transfer student Kanji in a dream. Yuiko Koto also had a night mare. In her nightmare, ...
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The Promised Neverland (2020)
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Style: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, captivating, anime ...
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Time: distant future, future
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48%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 144 min.
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Whispering Corridors: The Humming (2020)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: South Korea
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
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Country: Japan
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Story: "Hell Girl" was adapted into a single live-action television drama series that premiered on Nippon Television from November 4, 2006 spanning 12 half-hour episodes.[23] The series was directed by Makoto Naganuma. The theme song for the ...
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Country: Japan
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46%
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46%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
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