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Tetsuo: The Iron Man(1989)

3.5/5 (with 224 votes)

A "metal fetishist", driven mad by the maggots wriggling in the wound he's made to embed metal into his flesh, runs out into the night and is accidentally run down by a Japanese businessman and his girlfriend. The pair dispose of the corpse in hopes of quietly moving on with their lives. However, the businessman soon finds that he is now plagued by a vicious curse that transforms his flesh into iron.

Tokyo Gore Police(2008)

2.9/5 (with 128 votes)

In future Tokyo, a young woman in the privatized police force tracks down her father's killer while battling against mutant rebels known as engineers.

Appleseed(1988)

3.3/5 (with 28 votes)

In the futuristic city of Olympus, built on the ashes of the third world war, a police officer and her cyborg partner fight terrorism.

Rubber's Lover(1996)

3.4/5 (with 15 votes)

A powerful and secretive corporation is conducting underground psychic experiments utilizing Digital Direct Drive, otherwise known as DDD. While under the influence of the drug ether, the human subjects are outfitted in rubber suits and bombarded with DDD with extremely intense sound. Though the experiments are successful in unleashing psychic powers in the test subjects, the results are usually fatal. As a result, the corporation attempts to shut down the experiments against the wishes of Motomiya and Hitotsubashi who are in charge of the research. In a desperate attempt to salvage their work, the two researchers take over the lab and hold an innocent secretary hostage while they transform their fellow researcher into an ether addict and use him as the final human guinea pig for their experiments. The result has to be seen to be believed as his psychic powers are unleashed in a wave of ferocity that will leave you breathless.

Directed by Shozin Fukui

Roujin Z(1991)

3.2/5 (with 43 votes)

Mr. Takazawa, an elderly invalid who is cared for at his home by Haruko, a young nursing student, is chosen by the Japanese Ministry of Public Welfare to test the Z-001, a computerized hospital bed with robotic features that allegedly displays more efficiency and skills than any human nurse, but Haruko mistrusts a machine unable to consider human feelings.

Directed by Hiroyuki Kitakubo

Tetsuo II: Body Hammer(1992)

3.1/5 (with 43 votes)

A Japanese salaryman finds his body transforming into a weapon through sheer rage after his son is kidnapped by a gang of violent thugs.

964 Pinocchio(1991)

2.8/5 (with 27 votes)

Pinocchio 964 is a memory-wiped sex slave who is thrown out by his owners for failure to maintain an erection. It is unclear in what ways he has been modified beyond having no memory and being unable to communicate. He is discovered by Himiko while wandering aimlessly through the city. Himiko has also been memory-wiped, possibly by the same company that produced Pinocchio, but she is fully functional. Himiko spends her days drawing maps of the city, to aid other memory-wiped people. Himiko takes Pinocchio home and tries to teach him to speak. After much effort he has a breakthrough and finally becomes aware of his situation. At this point his body erupts in an inexplicable metamorphosis and it becomes clear that his modifications were much more involved and esoteric than simple memory loss. Himiko also begins to transform, though in a much more subtle manner.

Directed by Shozin Fukui

Tetsuo: The Bullet Man(2009)

2.6/5 (with 26 votes)

When the son of an American man and a Japanese women is killed, the man transforms into Tetsuo.

Meatball Machine(2005)

2.8/5 (with 28 votes)

Capable of making bio-mechanical weapons out of human flesh, alien parasites grotesquely invade the Earth, turning their hosts into maniacal killers who seek and destroy each other to the bloody death! And yes, it s also a human love story, even though the budding romantics are infested with slimy, tumor-like globules.

Directed by Yūdai Yamaguchi - With Ayano Yamamoto

Gunhed(1989)

1h 32min | Science Fiction
2.1/5 (with 8 votes)

High-concept Sci-Fi adventure about an island that actually is a computer called Kyron 5, itself created to design and manufacture super-advanced robots to be used as slaves for the rest of the world. One day Kyron decides that human beings are unnecessary, so it declares war on the world. But Kyron cannot be tamed, and after many lives are lost in the attempt, mankind decides to leave Kyron to its own devices.

Dead or Alive: Final(2002)

2.8/5 (with 26 votes)

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 is a hard boiled cop enforcing the mayor's agenda, and Ryō is a mellowed out drifter that hooks up with a gang of rebels. When the gang kidnap Takeshi's son, it begins a series of events leading to an inevitable showdown.

Burst City(1982)

3.0/5 (with 11 votes)

Set in a barren, futuristic Tokyo of highways and wastelands, a rowdy group of punk bands and their fans gather to protest slow, boring, Japanese living.

Directed by Gakuryū Ishii - With Takanori Jinnai
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Electric Dragon 80.000 V(2001)

3.4/5 (with 26 votes)

A violent, guitar-playing, electrically charged boxer faces off against an electronic wizard half-merged with a metallic Buddha.

Hellevator(2004)

2.8/5 (with 23 votes)

Luchino's routine morning elevator ride up from her subterranean home on level 138 to her school many stories above turns horrific when the elevator operator is ordered to pick up two passengers from floor 99, the maximum security level. What starts as psychological manipulation soon turns wholly physical as both the cruel convicts and Luchino's own dysfunctional past are unleashed. And then every passenger must fight for his or her survival.

Death Powder(1986)

2.9/5 (with 7 votes)

Three conspirators steal a secret android. In their warehouse hideout, the android secretes a reality-altering substance, which casts them into a frightening nether-world of interconnected subjectivity.

Directed by Shigeru Izumiya - With Mari Natsuki

Guinea Pig 5: Android of Notre Dame(1988)

51min | Horror
2.1/5 (with 14 votes)

A dwarf scientist has his dreams frustrated when his sister becomes seriously ill. Determined to find a way to preserve the essence of his sister after the death, the scientist begins to use humans as guinea pigs in a bizarre experiment.

Directed by Kazuhito Kuramoto

Akira(2023)

1h 42min | Action, Drama, Mystery

The leader of a biker gang tries to save his kidnapped friend from a powerful supernatural experiment.

Directed by Taika Waititi

The Phantom of Regular Size(1986)

3.2/5 (with 7 votes)

A short film where Shinya Tsukamoto experimented with effects and ideas, which eventually resulted in the feature film Tetsuo: The Iron Man.

Bounty Dog(1994)

3.2/5 (with 3 votes)

In the future, mankind has colonized the bleak expanses of the moon. Cities now stand proudly where there was once only desolation and emptiness. But there are alien forces that do not want mankind to succeed and only one man can stop them. He is a member of the Bounty Dog Investigation Unit, a high-tech cybernetic mercenary team.

The Edge Of Human(2022)

5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Inspired by the classic movie Blade Runner and the book Do Android Dream Of Electric Sheep? Jeter is an android hunter who is investigating a moon bus hijacking’s that crashed near the coast of Macau. But when he becomes friends with a female android Marie he start to second guess his job.

Meatball Machine(1999)

2.5/5 (with 5 votes)

Alien creatures invade human bodies and turn them into cybernetic fighting machines.

Tsuburo(2004)

3.2/5 (with 3 votes)

A man and a woman wake up in a hospital room. She's a nurse, he's a patient. Problem: a large metal object on his back. While the woman tries desperately to escape, the man experiences an inner struggle on the borderline of dream and reality. What has happened before?

NEUROSI5: Momento(2020)

5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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Macao 2525(2021)

5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

In the year 2525, Macao is the only surviving metropolis in the world. After the final wars our world is controlled by corrupt companies. Breeding children is illegal and are forced to move off World. To survive the earth, some people are forced to remain there and cloning has started to keep the planet alive. However a resistance group are against the this new brutal law and go against the company. Sebastian is working for the company and hunt down the resistance, however when he meet his own clone he relies he has been replaced and go against the company.