15 Movies Like Summer Time Machine Blues

Loved Summer Time Machine Blues? 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.

Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express - the Movie
#1

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 Summer Time Machine Blues.

Godzilla Minus One
#2

Godzilla Minus One

In postwar Japan, Godzilla brings new devastation to an already scorched landscape. With no military intervention or government help in sight, the survivors must join together in the face of despair and fight back against an unrelenting horror.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Summer Time Machine Blues.

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
#3

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die

A 'Man from the Future' arrives at an LA diner where he must recruit the precise combination of disgruntled patrons to join him on a one-night quest to save the world from the terminal threat of a rogue artificial intelligence.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Summer Time Machine Blues.

Cosmic Princess Kaguya!
#4

Cosmic Princess Kaguya!

Iroha's life gets knocked off its orbit when Kaguya, a carefree runaway from the Moon, moves in and convinces her to perform in a virtual world together.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Summer Time Machine Blues.

Lucky Sky Diamond
#5

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 Summer Time Machine Blues.

Ghost in the Shell
#6

Ghost in the Shell

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 Puppetmaster' begins involving them in politics, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop the Puppetmaster.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Summer Time Machine Blues.

Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
#7

Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion

SEELE orders an all-out attack on NERV, aiming to destroy the Evas before Gendo can advance his own plans for the Human Instrumentality Project. Shinji is pushed to the limits of his sanity as he is forced to decide the fate of humanity.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Summer Time Machine Blues.

The Torture Club
#8

The Torture Club

The "Torture Club" is an official after-school activity at the private school Saint Honesty Gakuen. Yuzuki has no idea about the club when she enrolls, and gets abducted by the club members and hauled off the club-room. There, she finds out that upper-class student Aoi, her secret idol, is in the club, and decides to join, but…

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Summer Time Machine Blues.

Akira
#9

Akira

A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Summer Time Machine Blues.

Shin Ultraman
#10

Shin Ultraman

The Japanese government sets up a special task force to fight the giant creatures suddenly appearing across the country. Soon, the squad unexpectedly meets a giant silver humanoid who starts appearing every time a space monster attacks!

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Summer Time Machine Blues.

Resident Evil: Death Island
#11

Resident Evil: Death Island

In San Francisco, Jill Valentine is dealing with a zombie outbreak and a new T-Virus, Leon Kennedy is on the trail of a kidnapped DARPA scientist, and Claire Redfield is investigating a monstrous fish that is killing whales in the bay. Joined by Chris Redfield and Rebecca Chambers, they discover the trail of clues from their separate cases all converge on the same location, Alcatraz Island, where a new evil has taken residence and awaits their arrival.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Summer Time Machine Blues.

Paprika
#12

Paprika

When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient's dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it and recover it before damage is done: Paprika.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Summer Time Machine Blues.

Men in Black 3
#13

Men in Black 3

Agents J and K are back...in time. J has seen some inexplicable things in his 15 years with the Men in Black, but nothing, not even aliens, perplexes him as much as his wry, reticent partner. But when K's life and the fate of the planet are put at stake, Agent J will have to travel back in time to put things right. J discovers that there are secrets to the universe that K never told him - secrets that will reveal themselves as he teams up with the young Agent K to save his partner, the agency, and the future of humankind.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Summer Time Machine Blues.

VIRGIN PUNK Clockwork Girl
#14

VIRGIN PUNK Clockwork Girl

In an unforgiving world, Ubu Kamigori hunts criminals as a bounty hunter. But one day, waiting in her home is the man she shares a sordid history with—Mr. Elegance. And so, her destiny begins to unravel.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Summer Time Machine Blues.

Detective Conan: The Phantom of Baker Street
#15

Detective Conan: The Phantom of Baker Street

Noah's Ark, the latest innovation in VR technology, is set for a showcase to Japan's privileged children. However, their carefree fun is cut short when a company employee is found murdered, with his dying message pointing to a clue hidden within the Ark. Along with the Detective Boys and Ran Mouri, Conan Edogawa enters Noah's Ark to solve this mystery and ensure the perpetrator is caught.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Summer Time Machine Blues.