Movies Like Mermaid's Scar
If you liked Mermaid's Scar (1993), a animation and drama movie directed by Morio Asaka, 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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Doraemon: Nobita's Great Battle of the Mermaid King (2010)
★ 6.9/10Also animation and fantasyNobita, Doraemon, and the rest must come to the aid of mermaid princess Sophia, whose undersea kingdom is suffering under the weight of a war. Their only hope lies in a mythical sword from the planet Aqua...
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Lu Over the Wall (2017)
★ 6.9/10Also animation and fantasyIn a small fishing village, a gloomy middle school student named Kai meets a mermaid named Lu.
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X (1996)
★ 6.2/10Also animation and fantasyIt's the year of destiny, and 15 year old Kamui Shiro, a powerful psychic, has returned to Toyko after a 6 year absence, having left when he was very young. He wants to be with his childhood friends, Fuma (his best…
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Bleach the Movie: Fade to Black (2008)
★ 7.1/10Also animation and fantasyA strange disturbance in the World of the Living sends Ichigo and Kon to the Soul Society, where the Seireitei has been devastated by an explosion of reishi and Rukia is missing. Stranger still, none of the Soul…
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Children of the Sea (2019)
★ 7.1/10Also animation and fantasyRuka is a young girl whose parents are separated and whose father works in an aquarium. When two boys, Umi and Sora, who were raised in the sea by dugongs, are brought to the aquarium, Ruka feels drawn to them and…
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GANTZ:O (2016)
★ 7.4/10Also animation and dramaAfter being brutally murdered in a subway station, a teen boy awakens to find himself resurrected by a strange computer named Gantz, and forced to fight a large force of invading aliens in Osaka.
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Kizumonogatari Part 1: Tekketsu (2016)
★ 7.7/10Also animation and fantasyOne day, Koyomi Araragi encounters the horrifying vampire, Kiss-shot Acerola-orion Heart-under-blade A.K.A. the "King of Apparitions." He saves the fatally wounded Kiss-shot by offering his blood at the expense of his…
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Modest Heroes (2018)
★ 6.7/10Also animation and fantasyTwo tiny, aquatic humanoids search for their missing father, a boy battles a lethal allergy to eggs, and an invisible salaryman tries to become a hero.
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The Girl from the Other Side (2023)
★ 7.8/10Also animation and dramaOnce upon a time, in a far, faraway place, there were two lands. The world was divided into an inner land and an outer land. People feared the outer land, inhabited by eerie beings, the carriers of curse. One day, on…
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Ajin: Demi-Human – Compel (2015)
★ 7/10Also animation and horrorKei discovers the curse of immortality when he gets hit by a bus... and doesn't die. Now on the run from a government that wants to experiment on him, and his fellow Ajin, Kei's only hope to live a peaceful life lies…
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The Imaginary (2023)
★ 7.6/10Also animation and dramaAmanda and her imaginary friend Rudger go on thrilling make-believe adventures. But when Rudger finds himself alone, he faces a mysterious threat.
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The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep (2025)
★ 6.7/10Also animation and fantasyWhen human sailors are attacked by mysterious creatures of the deep, only one person can stop the war between land and sea: the Witcher, Geralt of Rivia.
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Barbie: Dolphin Magic (2017)
★ 6.6/10Also animation and fantasyBarbie and her sisters take off on another exciting, global adventure to visit their friend Ken at his summer internship at a beautiful and exotic coral reef.
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Barbie Fairytopia: Mermaidia (2006)
★ 6.9/10Also animation and fantasyIn this animated follow-up to Fairytopia, Elina enlists the help of a mermaid, Nori, to save her friend Nalu, a merman prince who has been captured by the wicked Laverna.
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Demon City Shinjuku (1988)
★ 6/10Also fantasy and animationTen Years ago, Genichiro Izayoi died trying to stop the sorcerer Rebi Ra, and as a result Shinjuku became a playground for demons. And now, the day approaches when Rebi Ra will complete his decade-long ritual to plunge…
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Doraemon: Nobita and the Windmasters (2003)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and fantasyAfter a typhoon hits Nobita's town, he and Doraemon discover a wind sprite who, with some help from Doraemon's 22nd-century tech, takes them and their friends to a fantastic world of wind and storm people. But the wind…
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Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender (2026)
★ 9/10Also animation and fantasyAvatar Aang, the world's last Airbender, learns of an ancient power that could save his culture from extinction. With the help of his friends, he embarks on a global quest to find it before it falls into the wrong…
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A Thousand and One Nights (1969)
★ 6.7/10Also animation and dramaAldin, a vagabond water vendor, embarks of a series of fantastical and tragic misadventures through the Middle East in search of love, fortune, and power.
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Children Who Chase Lost Voices (2011)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and fantasyThe film centers on Asuna, a young girl who spends her solitary days listening to the mysterious music emanating from the crystal radio she received from her late father as a memento. One day while walking home she is…
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The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (2013)
★ 8.1/10Also animation and dramaFound inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious young princess enthrals all who encounter her. But, ultimately, she…