Japanese Movies by Genre: Fantasy

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  Koisuru Vampire (2015)

  Director: Mai Suzuki
  Plot: Kiira is a seemingly ordinary girl who dreams of becoming a world-class baker. However, she's also secretly a vampire. 8 years ago, she lost both her parents at the age of 12 and was taken in by her relatives. She now works part-time at a bakery. It's here where she's reunited by her childhood crush, Tetsu. They soon begin dating, and although Kiira dreams of their happy future together, she also worries that a relationship between a human and vampire might not work out.
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  Porco Rosso (1992)

  Director: Hayao Miyazaki
  Plot: A veteran WWI ace fighter pilot once known as Marco Rousolini hunts down "air pirates" over the Adriatic Sea. However, a bizarre curse has transformed him into a pig man dubbed "Porco Rosso", Italian for "Red Pig".
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  Bakemono no Ko (2015)

  Director: Mamoru Hosoda
  Plot: A lonely young boy crosses over from the real world of Shibuya, Tokyo to the Bakemono (monster) world where he meets a bakemono named Kumatetsu and becomes his protege under his new name "Kyuta".
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  Tamako-chan to Kokkubo (2015)

  Director: Shoh Kataoka
  Plot: After dreaming of a land of sweets, Hiyoko gets pulled into an animated world through the hole of a doughnut. While there, she meets a girl named Tamako-chan and a mysterious creature called Kokkubo. Hiyoko begins visiting the animated world on a daily basis and Tamako-chan visits the real world by taking up residence in her body.
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  Sekai kara Neko ga Kieta nara (2016)

  Director: Akira Nagai
  Plot: A postman is diagnosed with a terminal illness and discovers he doesn't have long to live. Soon, a devil appears to him in his own image with an offer to extend his life in exchange for removing things from his life. The man initially agrees to the devil's terms, giving up various things from his life which each buy him one extra day to live. However, as these things are erased, his connections to some of the most important people in his life--including his former girlfriend and his best friend--are also taken from him.
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  Assassination Classroom (2015)

  Director: Eiichiro Hasumi
  Plot: "Class E" of Kunugigaoka Junior High School consists of students determined to have no future. They're separated from their classmates and assigned to a bizarre tentacled alien homeroom teacher. The alien, whom the students refer to as "Kurosensei" (literally "unkillable teacher"), had previously destroyed most of the moon and threatened to destroy Earth. However, he decided to delay his plan for one year if he was given a class of junior high school students to teach on the terms that he wouldn't harm them.Kurosensei teachers his class various assassination techniques and the government promises a 10 billion yen reward to the student who finally manages to kill him. Unfortunately, Kurosensei is able to avoid all of their attacks due to his vastly superior alien reflexes. In spite of this, student Nagisa Shiota keeps track of any perceived weaknesses as he and his classmates try to come up with new ways to kill him.
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  Forget Me Not (2015)

  Director: Kei Horie
  Plot: High school senior Takashi falls in love with a girl named Azusa at first sight and the two begin dating. One day, Azusa makes a strange confession, telling Takashi that everyone forgets her a few hours after meeting her. At first Takashi doesn't believe Azusa, but over time he begins to realize that he's starting to forget the details of their time spent together. Soon he begins leaving notes documenting their time together so he doesn't forget.
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  Twilight Sasara Saya (2014)

  Director: Yoshihiro Fukagawa
  Plot: Saya lost her husband Yutaro in a car accident soon after the birth of their son. Afterward, Saya dedicates herself to protecting her son, but has no family to assist her and suffers various hardships while living as a single mother. However, after his death, Yutaro is miraculously able to help Saya by possessing the bodies of other people in the strange town Saya moves to called "Sasara".
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  Yakuza Apocalypse: The Great War Of The Underworld (2015)

  Director: Takashi Miike
  Plot: Kagayama is a low-ranking yakuza who works under a boss named Kamiura, who also happens to be a vampire. An international assassin attacks Kamiura, but before dying he bites Kagayama and gives him vampiric powers. Kagayama then sets forth on a mission to avenge his dead boss.
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  Chasuke's Journey (2015)

  Director: SABU
  Plot: In Heaven, a playwright has written many "life scenarios" about people living down on Earth. Chasuke is responsible for making the writer's tea, and has fallen in love with a woman named Yuri who's the subject of one of these writings. However, when he reads ahead and discovers that Yuri is destined to die in a car accident, he decides to descend to Earth to save her, landing right in the middle of the All Okinawa Acer Festival.With the help of an antique shop owner named Taneda, a ramen shop worker named Hikomura, and several more people he meets on Earth, Chasuke attempts to alter Yuri's fate.