Movies like Big Man Japan (2007)
The best movies like Big Man Japan (2007) are Wax, or The Discovery of Television Among the Bees (1991), Japanese Spiderman: Episode 0 (1978) and Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City (2010). If Big Man Japan hooked you with its action and comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedKung Fury (2015)7.5/10 from 2,036 votes
- NewestPsychokinesis (2018)Released 2018
- In JapaneseJapanese Spiderman: Episode 0 (1978)Also in Japanese
Wax, or The Discovery of Television Among the Bees (1991)
Computer programmer/beekeeper Jacob gets a "television" implanted in his brain by a race of telekinetic bees, which causes him to experience severe hallucinations.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Japanese Spiderman: Episode 0 (1978)
The Iron Cross Army are sabotaging oil-tankers with the help of their monster, the Sea-Devil, a semi-mechanical anthropomorphic swordfish with an ability to shoot torpedoes from its mouth. Spiderman employs the help of the interpol agent Juzo Mamiya to help him stop the Iron Cross Army.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & science fiction
Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City (2010)
A post-apocalyptic humankind in 2025 finds a hero in the form of Zebraman. But the Zebra Queen steals his powers, making him lose his ability to survive Zebra Time. But he wants his powers back.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
HK: Forbidden Super Hero (2013)
High school student Kyosuke Shikijo is the most talented member of the school's martial arts of the fist club. His late father was detective and Kyosuke share his father's strong sense of justice. Kyosuke also has a secret. Kyosuke likes to wear female underwear and transforms himself into the alter ego "Hentai Kamen," wearing female underwear and gaining superhuman powers. This unusual interest also comes from his parents, with his father a masochist and his mother a sadist. By chance, Kyosuke gets the underwear of female high school student Aiko Himeno. With her underwear, he gains various pervert techniques and attempts to protect Aiko from a dirty and heinous teacher.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Specials (2000)
America's seventh best superhero team, the Specials, are a group of geeks and oddballs. Lifelong fan Nightbird joins the group just in time for the group to get a new line of action figures. But the members' extreme personalities and personal issues threaten to rip the group apart.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisDeath Kappa (2010)
When military experiments go haywire and trigger an atomic bomb, the consequences are of epic proportions. A monster arrives in the midst of the nuclear fallout, and Japan's defenses are helpless against it. Mankind's only savior is an irradiated water goblin from Japanese folklore called the "Death Kappa." The two rival monsters must go head-to-head in the ultimate battle between good and evil!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & science fiction
Save the Green Planet! (2003)
A young man believes that his country's leaders are actually toxic reptilian aliens sent down to launch a takeover of his beloved Earth. So he decides to abduct them and force the truth out on camera in his basement that doubles as a film studio and torture chamber.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisZebraman (2004)
A down-and-out schoolteacher receives the calling to become the real life personification of an old television superhero, Zebraman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDefendor (2009)
A crooked cop, a mob boss and the young girl they abuse are the denizens of a city's criminal underworld. It's a world that ordinary Arthur Poppington doesn't understand and doesn't belong in, but is committed to fighting when he changes into a vigilante super-hero of his own making, Defendor. With no power other than courage Defendor takes to the streets to protect the city's innocents.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTokyo Gore Police (2008)
In a futuristic Tokyo where police have been privatized and bitter self-mutilation is so casual that advertising is often specially geared to the 'cutter' demographic, Ruka is on a mission to avenge her father's assassination. Ruka is a cop from a squad whose goal is to destroy homicidal mutant humans known as 'engineers', that possess the ability to transform any injury to a weapon in and of itself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Toxic Avenger (1984)
A gang of thugs devise a cruel hoax that goes horribly wrong as Melvin, a nerdy emaciated janitor at the local health club, is cast through a third story window into a vat of hazardous toxic waste.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSuper (2010)
After his wife falls under the influence of a drug dealer, an everyday guy transforms himself into Crimson Bolt, a superhero with the best intentions, though he lacks for heroic skills.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWhy Don't You Play in Hell? (2013)
In Japan, gonzo filmmakers hatch a three-pronged plan to save an actress's career, end a yakuza war and make a hit movie.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTurbo Kid (2015)
In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, an orphaned teen must battle a ruthless warlord to save the girl of his dreams.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Guyver (1991)
FBI agent Max Reed witnesses Dr. Tetsu Segawa - a researcher for the mysterious Chronos Corporation - being murdered. Dr. Segawa had stolen an alien device known as "The Guyver" from Chronos. College student Sean Barker, whose girlfriend's father was Dr. Segawa, finds the Guyver's hiding spot while watching the forensic team investigating the crime scene.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & action
SnoozefestMovies like thisWho Wants to Kill Jessie? (1966)
In this zany Czechoslovakian comedy, a scientist invents a machine that projects a sleeping person's dream on a screen; disaster soon follows when the machine malfunctions and the cartoon-like dream characters become very real!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPsychokinesis (2018)
An ordinary guy suddenly finds he has superpowers he can use to help his spirited daughter and the people around them, but he also runs into trouble in the process.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisUltraman X The Movie: Here He Comes! Our Ultraman (2016)
When realty TV host Carlos Kurozaki breaks into a mysterious underground pyramid for a television event, he removes a special gem. . . and unwittingly releases a diabolical monster called Zaigorg! The evil creature wants Kurozaki's gem, so it spawns an army of giant kaijus to get it! It's up to the famous superheroes Ultraman X, Ultraman Tiga, and the one and only original Ultraman to stop the worldwide monster war!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & science fiction
Ultraman Saga (2012)
Ultraman Saga opens with a powerful apocalyptic vision of Tokyo, buildings destroyed and the city seemingly devoid of life. We are soon introduced to the Earth Defense Force (EDF), Team U (played by members of the female idol group AKB48). They and a group of young children and the last survivors on planet Earth after the world was invaded by the evil Alien Bat, the rest of the human population having been abducted.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & science fiction
RoboGeisha (2009)
Sisters Yoshie and Kikue are two Geisha who are abducted by a mysterious organization to be transformed into murderous cyborg assassins.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisSpecial (2006)
A lonely metermaid has a psychotic reaction to his medication and becomes convinced he's a superhero. A very select group of people in life are truly gifted. Special is a movie about everyone else.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKamen Rider ZO (1993)
Masaru Aso was the lab assistant of geneticist Doctor Mochizuki, used as one of his experiments related the creation of the Neo Organism, enabling him to transform into a grasshopper-like being called Kamen Rider ZO. He fled into the mountainside and went into a coma before he was awakened by a telepathic call two years later with an unconscious urge to protect Hiroshi Mochizuki, the son of Doctor Mochizuki.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & science fiction
Kung Fury (2015)
During an unfortunate series of events, a friend of Kung Fury is assassinated by the most dangerous kung fu master criminal of all time, Adolf Hitler, a.k.a Kung Führer. Kung Fury decides to travel back in time to Nazi Germany in order to kill Hitler and end the Nazi empire once and for all.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGintama (2017)
In an era where aliens have invaded and taken over feudal Tokyo, a young samurai finds work however he can.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAmerican Hero (2015)
Melvin, a reluctant hero who is far from super, has been suppressing his telekinetic powers for years with booze, drugs, and women. In the process, he has failed at practically everything, most of all as a parent to his son. After a brush with death, Melvin decides to use his powers for good and clean up the streets of New Orleans with the help of his best friend/definitely-not-a-sidekick, Lucille. For a man who can do the impossible, it might be a fight even he can’t win.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisSuper Fuzz (1980)
While delivering a parking ticket to a small village in the Florida everglades, Officer Dave Speed finds himself in the middle of a radiation experiment conducted by the American government and NASA, where a detonated nuclear missile gives him a multitude of superpowers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Calamari Wrestler (2004)
This wild comedy pokes fun at the world of pro-wrestling by placing its accomplished wrestler protagonist Koji Taguchi against a giant squid known as the Calamari Wrestler. The Calimari Wrestler not only proves to be Koji's most difficult opponent yet, but also has an effect on several people's personal lives when he becomes the unlikely object of a young girl's affection.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Zëiram (1991)
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 reality in which Bob has trapped Ilia's latest prey, a biological weapon named Zeiram. The Earth natives must both survive the experience and help Ilia capture Zeiram before the Zone disappears around them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Power Rangers Samurai: Clash of the Red Rangers - The Movie (2011)
The Samurai Rangers team up with the mysterious RPM Ranger Red to fight off Master Xandred's Mooger army and a robotic supervillain from the RPM Ranger's dimension. But when both Red Rangers get struck with hypnobolts, they turn against one another.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Meteor Man (1993)
One night Jefferson Reed gets hit in the chest by a souped-up chunk of meteor. So he can fly, but he's scared of heights. He can master the information in any book ... for about thirty seconds. Now his friends and family want him to protect their community from the dreaded Golden Lords.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Big Man Japan?
The closest matches to Big Man Japan are Wax, or The Discovery of Television Among the Bees (1991), Japanese Spiderman: Episode 0 (1978) and Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City (2010). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Big Man Japan?
People who watched Big Man Japan most often go on to Wax, or The Discovery of Television Among the Bees (1991), Japanese Spiderman: Episode 0 (1978) and Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City (2010).
What is the highest-rated movie like Big Man Japan?
Kung Fury (2015), rated 7.5/10 by 2,036 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Big Man Japan?
Psychokinesis (2018) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Japanese movies like Big Man Japan?
Yes: Japanese Spiderman: Episode 0 (1978), Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City (2010) and HK: Forbidden Super Hero (2013).
How are movies similar to Big Man Japan chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Big Man Japan, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.