Movies Like JOKER: Marginal City

If you liked JOKER: Marginal City (1992), a mystery and animation movie directed by Osamu Yamasaki, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

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Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 4: Ghost Stands Alone (2014)
★ 6.9/10Also animation and science fiction
The upcoming installment's story takes place amidst signs of postwar reconstruction in the winter of 2028. Tensions are rising in New Port City as demonstrations are held concerning the interests of foreign cartels…
2
Ghost in the Shell 2.0 (2008)
★ 7.4/10Also animation and science fiction
In the year 2029, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster'.
3
Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 Sustainable War (2021)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and science fiction
In the year 2045, after an economic disaster known as the Synchronized Global Default, rapid developments in AI propelled the world to enter a state of "Sustainable War". However, the public is not aware of the threat…
4
Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 2: Ghost Whispers (2013)
★ 7/10Also animation and science fiction
Freed of her responsibilities with the 501 Organization, Motoko Kusanagi must now learn how to take orders from Aramaki. Someone hacks the Logicomas, and Batou enlists the help of former army intelligence officer…
5
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man (2005)
★ 7.7/10Also science fiction and animation
The year is 2030 and six years have passed since a criminal known only as "The Laughing Man" swept through top medical nanotechnology firms committing acts of cyber-terrorism, kidnapping, and espionage leaving no known…
6
Appleseed: Ex Machina (2007)
★ 6.5/10Also animation and science fiction
As members of ESWAT, the elite forces serving Olympus, Deunan and Briaereos are deployed anywhere trouble strikes. Olympus finds itself under a stealth attack - cyborg terrorism, deadly nanotech zealots, and rioting…
7
Battle Angel (1993)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and science fiction
In his travels as a bounty hunter, Hunter–Warrior and cyborg healer Ido one day discovers and repairs the remnants of a cyborg whom he names Gally. Though possessing the body of a young woman, Gally now embodies Ido's…
8
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
★ 7.9/10Also animation and science fiction
In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The…
9
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society (2007)
★ 7.5/10Also animation and science fiction
The story takes place in the year 2034, two years after the events in Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG. Female cyborg Major Motoko Kusanagi has left Public Security Section 9, an elite counter-terrorist and…
10
009 Re:Cyborg (2012)
★ 7/10Also animation and science fiction
009 Re:Cyborg follows a group of nine cyborgs, each of them created by a shadowy organization for use as weapons against humanity. The group turns on their creators to protect the population instead, using the powers…
11
Mardock Scramble: The Second Combustion (2011)
★ 6.3/10Also animation and science fiction
Rescued by Doctor Easter from a deadly assault on their headquarters by Dimsdale Boiled, Rune Balot finds temporary shelter in "Paradise," a high-tech laboratory where the Scramble 09 protocol originated. While the…
12
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)
★ 7.4/10Also animation and science fiction
Cyborg detective Batou is assigned to investigate a series of murders committed by gynoids—doll-like cyborgs, which all malfunctioned, killed, then self-destructed afterwards. The brains of the gynoids initialize in…
13
Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie (2015)
★ 6.6/10Also science fiction and animation
When a ghost-infecting virus known as Fire-Starter begins spreading through the system resulting in the assassination of the Japanese Prime Minister, Major Motoko Kusanagi and her elite team of special operatives are…
14
Mazinger Z: Infinity (2017)
★ 7/10Also science fiction and animation
When the evil Dr. Hell attacks the Earth, the mighty giant mecha Mazinger Z is formed to stop him.
15
Galaxy Express 999: The Movie (1979)
★ 6.9/10Also animation and science fiction
In the future, one can achieve immortality by obtaining a mechanized body. Orphaned, young Tetsuro hitches a ride on the space train Galaxy Express 999 in the hope of obtaining a cyborg body to avenge his mother's…
16
Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01 (1987)
★ 6.1/10Also science fiction and animation
Ace female test pilot Kusomoto Elle humiliates macho tank driver Lt. Kilgore in the first demonstration of the advanced personal battle tank, the MADOX. Kilgore vows revenge, and gets his chance when the army rather…
17
Patlabor: The Movie (1989)
★ 6.9/10Also animation and science fiction
A mysterious suicide and a series of unmanned robot run-aways sparks off a Police investigation into the suspicious software on-board thousands of industrial robots around Tokyo.
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Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 3: Ghost Tears (2014)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and science fiction
Posing as lovers on vacation, Motoko and Batou work to try to stop a terrorist organization whose symbol is the Scrasath. Meanwhile, Togusa investigates a murder of a man who possessed a prosthetic leg manufactured by…
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Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain (2013)
★ 7/10Also animation and science fiction
The story is set in 2027, one year after the end of the fourth non-nuclear war. New Port City is still reeling from the war's aftermath when it suffers a bombing caused by a self-propelled mine. Then, a military member…
20
Steins;Gate: The Movie - Load Region of Déjà Vu (2013)
★ 7.6/10Also science fiction and animation
One year after the events of the anime, Rintarou begins to feel the repercussions of extensive time travel, and eventually completely fades from reality. Kurisu, being the only companion to remember him, now must find…