Movies like Tomie
If Tomie's mix of japan, amnesia and love triangle stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Tomie's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Cure
1997 · Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa · 111 min7.6
Why you'll like itWith Yoriko Doguchi · Shares: amnesia · Also a Japanese horror film · From the same decade (1990s)
A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done.
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Ju-on: The Grudge
2002 · Directed by Takashi Shimizu · 92 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: japan · Also a Japanese horror film
When a social worker is sent to check on a traumatized elderly woman whose family have moved in at the site of a notorious murder case, she unwittingly unleashes a cycle of terror that transmits via its victims.
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Lesson of the Evil
2012 · Directed by Takashi Miike · 129 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: japan · Also a Japanese horror film
Seiji Hasumi is a popular English teacher in a private high school. He is also a violent and sociopathic killer who concocts an extreme plan to deal with the rise of bullying and bad behavior among the student body.
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The World of Kanako
2014 · Directed by Tetsuya Nakashima · 118 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: japan · Also a Japanese mystery
When Kanako, a model daughter and a brilliant student, disappears, her mother asks her ex-husband, a violent former policeman, to find her.
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Smile
2022 · Directed by Parker Finn · 115 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: detective · Also horror and mystery
After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can't explain.
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Kizumonogatari Part 3: Reiketsu
2017 · Directed by Tatsuya Oishi · 83 min8.0
Why you'll like itAlso a Japanese mystery
With help from Meme Oshino, the apparition specialist, Koyomi defeats the three powerful vampire hunters: Dramaturgy, Episode and Guillotinecutter.
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Dark City
1998 · Directed by Alex Proyas · 101 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: amnesia · From the same decade (1990s)
A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.
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Death Note
2006 · Directed by Shusuke Kaneko · 126 min7.1
Why you'll like itAlso a Japanese mystery
Light Yagami finds the "Death Note," a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to create a Utopia by killing the world's criminals, and soon the world's greatest detective, "L," is hired to find the mysterious…
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Guilty of Romance
2011 · Directed by Sion Sono · 145 min6.9
Why you'll like itAlso a Japanese horror film
While police investigate a woman found dead in a derelict love hotel, a romance novelist's wife lives a life that seems simply a daily repetition without romance.
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Wicked City
1987 · Directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri · 82 min6.7
Why you'll like itAlso a Japanese horror film
A peace treaty between the Earth and the Black World, a parallel universe of demons, is coming to an end. Two cops, Taki, a human male, and Maki, a female demon, are assigned to protect a diplomat who will help secure…
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Trance
2013 · Directed by Danny Boyle · 101 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: amnesia
A violent gang enlists the help of a hypnotherapist in an attempt to locate a painting which somehow vanished in the middle of a heist.