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10 Best Movies Like Maboroshi

If you loved Maboroshi, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Summer Days with Coo

Summer Days with Coo

2007★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Maboroshi for fans of Animation. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A small, lone Kappa miraculously survives over 200 years into modern day Japan, when he is found by young Koichi. Coo, who is secretly adopted by Koichi's family, searches with his...

#2
Primeval

Primeval

2007★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Maboroshi for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A news team is sent to Burundi to capture and bring home a legendary 25-foot crocodile. Their difficult task turns potentially deadly when a warlord targets them for death....

#3
Suspect X

Suspect X

2008★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Maboroshi for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A male corpse is discovered with a smashed face and burned hands. Strangely, the cause of death is determined to be strangulation. When Detective Kaoru Utsumi attempts to corrobora...

#4
The Mortuary Collection

The Mortuary Collection

2020★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Maboroshi for fans of Fantasy. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

In the phantasmagorical town of Raven's End, a misguided young girl takes refuge in a decrepit old mortuary. The eccentric undertaker chronicles the strange history of the town thr...

#5
The Crimes That Bind

The Crimes That Bind

2018★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Maboroshi for fans of Mystery. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Michiko Oshitani, who lived in Shiga Prefecture, is found dead at an apartment in Tokyo. She was strangled to death. Mutsuo Koshikawa is the owner of the apartment and he goes miss...

#6
Rage

Rage

2016★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Maboroshi for fans of Mystery. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A man brutally murders a married couple and leaves the word “ikari” (“rage”) written with their blood. The killer undergoes plastic surgery and flees. At three different locations ...

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