i am once again begging for more tokusatsu movies and shows that feel like these.
(don’t mention GARO. i tried GARO. it doesn’t feel like these.)
this post is a few months old so i'm not sure if you're still wanting for recommendations but i'd like to offer a few anyhow!
firstly, there's the two lesser known amemiya movies from this era, mirai ninja
and moon over tao
both are definitely lesser known for a reason due to not really having the same kind of production values or moviemaking behind them but elements of that very specific aesthetic are still present for sure
kamen rider black (the original show) is... absolutely not consistent all the way through but at the very least its first handful of episodes are worth trying out as they go very hard direction-wise
almost every godzilla film from 1989 to 2003 or so has something in it that i think would appeal to people who like the 90s amemiya style. in particular i'd say vs. biollante, vs. destoroyah, & vs. megaguirus stand out in my mind
getting away from traditional toku there's 1989's gunhed
1991's hiruko the goblin, which is very zeiram-esque with its normie bumbling male leads trying to deal with this horrible creature (just a note that this one is much more horror focused & contains some fairly intense blood/gore)
jissoji akio's doomed megalopolis/tokyo: the last megalopolis, which is. an unhinged movie that's difficult to follow narratively but in terms of how it looks it might be the closest neighbor to this style
and this is fully getting away from the realm of tokusatsu but i find that kurosawa kiyoshi horror films from this era like pulse & cure honestly tend to have this vibe as well
just something about those 90s/early 2000s cameras...
1990's youkai tengoku: ghost hero is a little sillier than a lot of these movies, but i think it would probably still fit the brief. it's got a cool plot combining cyberpunk-type stuff like hacking and vr along with ghosts and demons and such.
moving out of japan, there's also 1992's hong kong live action version of wicked city. there's a pretty good anime based on the same source material, but the movie is very visually beautiful
finally, another hong kong movie, 1990's magic cop, about a taoist exorcist who's also a maverick cop, brought in to take down a smuggling ring led by and evil ice witch. it doesn't have the sci-fi elements most of the movies in this post have, but it still looks incredible, and has some of the movst imaginative action scenes i've ever seen. plus, i think the "magic stuff in modern hk" setiing is close enough to make it fit in here
have seen most of these now (except for the Hong Kong films which i'm tracking down) but if we're talking about HK films in that vein, we can't not mention The Seventh Curse directed by the legendary Lam Ngai Kai of Riki-oh: Story of Ricky fame and featuring Chow Yun-Fat with a rocket launcher and a Giger-esque creature in the finale! (Content warning for lots of blood and gore and nudity)
Lam Ngai Kai also directed the utterly bizarre The Cat which is based on another book from the same series as The Seventh Curse, but does not feature Chow Yun-Fat. Your mileage on this one will vary how much you can stomach animal cruelty as one of the big set pieces is a dog and a cat being thrown at the camera as if they're "fighting". (Content warning for again, lots of blood and gore)
this has once more washed upon my dash, so i'll add 1988's circuit nurse
and a movie much more recent than those mentioned so far, 2022's mutant ghost wargirl (this is just the trailer, because it's a newish movie, you'll have to be more resourceful than a simple youtube search)
