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If there was ever a region that included themes, characters and motifs that occasionally surpassed even the borders of the surreal, that would be Asia, with the titles that can be easily described as absurd coming out in scores. Maybe it has to do with a particular type of idiosyncrasy, maybe that in a number of countries, particularly in Japan and India, filmmakers feel the freedom to express themselves in any way they want, away from any kind of political correctness or even cinematic “rules”. A number of these movies have already garnered the title of cult, but as we are about to see in this particular list, titles from the whole spectrum of cinema can be found here. Without further ado, here are 40 movies that definitely deserve the title of weird, in alphabetical order.

Ps. The focus on Japanese films was inevitable…

1. A Man Vanishes

This is the closing...

In 2025, the Kostka gang, a group of kids with nicknames like Pork Chop, Bull Dog, Snowman, McAbnormal and J. Blo, aged from 5 to 15, terrorize Manila, robbing and killing everyone in their path. After a shootout with the police, one of their members dies, and their leader, nicknamed Boss, decides that they should rob a bank, in order to change their lives. The robbery however, goes horribly wrong, with a number of the gang’s members ending up dead and Boss in prison.

After a kind of comic strip, that shows his time in prison, the story jumps forward to 2053, when he is released and reunites with the remaining members. However, the money from the robbery were never found, and the members expect him to have it. Furthermore, someone seems to kill the remaining ones, one by one.

Khavn directs and pens a truly chaotic film, that seems more like a...