15 Movies Like One Cut of the Dead
Loved One Cut of the Dead? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.

The Battery
In rural Connecticut, baseball players Ben and Mickey are trying to survive a zombie plague. They are forced to form a battery: a catcher and a pitcher who work together to outwit the batter, the one who hits the ball. And the batter in this case just happens to be a zombie. Tough Ben and gentle Mickey frequently disagree on the best way to go about the situation. Then they suddenly hear a human voice through their walkie-talkies. Is salvation nearby, like Mickey thinks, or is Ben’s suspicion justified?
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked One Cut of the Dead.

Door II: Tokyo Diary
Ai is a call girl that makes good money for what she does but there’s always at risk no matter how good the money is.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to One Cut of the Dead.

Door
Yasuko, a housewife, lives in an urban high-rise apartment with her husband Satoru and her son Takuto. Annoyed by spam calls and door-to-door salesmen, Yasuko slams the door on a salesman’s hand when he tries to squeeze a flyer through the apartment's chained front door. He leaves, but the next day, her nightmare starts.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to One Cut of the Dead.

Perfect Days
Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and taking photos of trees. Through unexpected encounters, he reflects on finding beauty in the world.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to One Cut of the Dead.

Mai-chan's Daily Life
Miyako starts a live-in maid job and quickly discovers that housecleaning is the least of her duties, as her employers use the maids in their twisted fantasies. Her co-worker Mai-chan, who can miraculously recover from any injury, becomes the focus of horrific, indulgent violence that Miyako is soon drawn into.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to One Cut of the Dead.

Your Name.
High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body, and he in hers. This bizarre occurrence continues to happen randomly, and the two must adjust their lives around each other.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to One Cut of the Dead.

On the Beach
In a summer in Shonan village, Sumiko is the daughter of an important upper-class Shikishima family, she loves to paint pictures, is going through a cooling-off of an arranged marriage that did not work out. However, she feels attraction for Nishina a rough and obscene man ... On the other hand, the younger sister, Naomi Sumiko is envious of her sister for her beauty. Naomi feels ugly since all men seem to like Sumiko. Both sisters then become embroiled in a major problem in discovering the real intentions of Nishina, a man who hides behind a mask to rape women.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to One Cut of the Dead.

Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
Three scouts and lifelong friends join forces with one badass cocktail waitress to become the world’s most unlikely team of heroes. When their peaceful town is ravaged by a zombie invasion, they’ll fight for the badge of a lifetime and put their scouting skills to the test to save mankind from the undead.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked One Cut of the Dead.

Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express - the Movie
Six delinquents are tasked with cleaning a train as part of a community service program. But when the train suddenly takes off, chaos ensues.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to One Cut of the Dead.

Guinea Pig: Devil's Experiment
Masked thugs torture an innocent woman in increasingly brutal ways.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to One Cut of the Dead.

Exit 8
A man trapped in an endless sterile subway passageway sets out to find Exit 8. The rules of his quest are simple: do not overlook anything out of the ordinary. If you discover an anomaly, turn back immediately. If you don’t, carry on. Then leave from Exit 8. But even a single oversight will send him back to the beginning. Will he ever reach his goal and escape this infinite corridor?
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to One Cut of the Dead.

Lucky Sky Diamond
At the clinic where her boyfriend Katayama, a young genius doctor, is the director, Yoko, a young girl who continues to suffer from eerie nightmares every day, is not getting better despite the care of her sister Sakurako and Katayama's treatment. Sakurako, the sister, is suspicious of Yoko's condition and confronts Katayama, who tells her that she suffers from a serious mental disorder and that the only way to cure it is to have brain surgery. Yoko, despite being persuaded by her sister and Katayama, agrees to the surgery, although she is skeptical...
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to One Cut of the Dead.

Dollhouse
After losing their child, a mother finds solace in a life-sized ancient doll she finds on the market. When a new daughter enters the family's life, strange things begin to happen and no matter how hard the family tries to get rid of it, the doll always finds its way back.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to One Cut of the Dead.

A Silent Voice: The Movie
Shouya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class, Shouko Nishimiya, because she is deaf. But as the teasing continues, the rest of the class starts to turn on Shouya for his lack of compassion. When they leave elementary school, Shouko and Shouya do not speak to each other again... until an older, wiser Shouya, tormented by his past behaviour, decides he must see Shouko once more. He wants to atone for his sins, but is it already too late...?
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to One Cut of the Dead.

Nun in Rope Hell
A woman gets caught by the wife of her lover which results in a stabbing. Feeling guilty she runs away and joins a nunnery. But she soon discovers that several nuns and a well known author have turned the place into their own personal S&M playground.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to One Cut of the Dead.