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Movies Like ASIAN SUNRISE

If you liked ASIAN SUNRISE (2001), a movie, 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.

  1. 1Step Up Revolution

    Step Up Revolution (2012)

    ★ 6.9/10

    Emily arrives in Miami with aspirations to become a professional dancer. She sparks with Sean, the leader of a dance crew whose neighborhood is threatened by Emily's father's development plans.

  2. 2High Strung

    High Strung (2016)

    ★ 7/10

    When a hip hop violinist busking in the New York subway encounters a classical dancer on scholarship at the Manhattan Conservatory of the Arts, sparks fly. With the help of a hip hop dance crew they must find a common…

  3. 3Tokyo Decadence

    Tokyo Decadence (1992)

    ★ 6/10

    A submissive hooker goes about her trade, suffering abuse at the hands of Japanese salarymen and Yakuza types. She's unhappy about her work, and is apparently trying to find some sort of appeasement for the fact that…

  4. 4Gnomeo & Juliet

    Gnomeo & Juliet (2011)

    ★ 5.9/10

    A version of Shakespeare's play, set in the world of warring indoor and outdoor gnomes. Garden gnomes Gnomeo and Juliet have as many obstacles to overcome as their quasi namesakes when they are caught up in a feud…

  5. 5Blue Giant

    Blue Giant (2023)

    ★ 7.8/10

    High school student Dai Miyamoto has his life is turned upside down the day he discovers jazz. Picking up a saxophone and leaving his sleepy hometown for the bustling nightclubs of Tokyo, Dai will find that the life of…

  6. 6The Colors Within

    The Colors Within (2024)

    ★ 6.9/10

    Totsuko is a high school student with the ability to see the 'colors' of others. Colors of bliss, excitement, and serenity, plus a color she treasures as her favorite. Kimi, a classmate at her school, gives off the…

  7. 7Radiance

    Radiance (2017)

    ★ 6.5/10

    The story follows the social intercourse between a cameraman, Masaya, with a visual impairment, and Misako who disconnects from the world.

  8. 8Revenge Porn: PAIN OF LOVE

    Revenge Porn: PAIN OF LOVE (2019)

    ★ 8.4/10

    Rei is a college student in the midst of finding a job. She confesses her love to Mikio, a senior whom she admires. Mikio soon demands that she perform perverted acts.

  9. 9The Pornographers

    The Pornographers (1966)

    ★ 7.3/10

    A former Buddhist monk turned erotic filmmaker, Subuyan lives with hairdresser Haru and her two teenage children. Shooting two skin flicks per day, he somehow manages to stay out of the clutches of the yakuza, but real…

  10. 10Too Late Blues

    Too Late Blues (1961)

    ★ 6.4/10

    Ghost is an ideological musician and leader of a jazz band who would rather play his blues in the park to the birds than compromise himself. His peripatetic performances lead him to cross paths with a singer, while his…

  11. 11Departures

    Departures (2008)

    ★ 7.9/10

    Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking he’s applying for a job at a travel agency he finds he’s being interviewed for…

  12. 12High Strung Free Dance

    High Strung Free Dance (2018)

    ★ 7.3/10

    Zander Raines, a dazzling and tempestuous young choreographer, gives the break of a lifetime to two hopeful artists when he casts a stunning contemporary dancer, Barlow, and innovative pianist, Charlie, in New York’s…

  13. 13StreetDance 3D

    StreetDance 3D (2010)

    ★ 6.5/10

    In order to win the Street Dance Championships, a dance crew is forced to work with ballet dancers from the Royal Dance School in exchange for rehearsal space.

  14. 14It Feels So Good

    It Feels So Good (2019)

    ★ 6.6/10

    When it rains it pours. Kenji divorced his wife, lost his job and his old squeeze Naoko is getting married back home in the north of Japan, specifically in Akita. He returns there in order to attend her wedding. Naoko…

  15. 15Battle of the Year

    Battle of the Year (2013)

    ★ 6.8/10

    A down-on-his-luck coach is hired to prepare a team of the best American dancers for an international tournament that attracts all the best crews from around the world, but the Americans haven't won in fifteen years.

  16. 16Step Up All In

    Step Up All In (2014)

    ★ 6.8/10

    All-stars from previous installments convene in glittering Las Vegas, battling for a victory that could define their dreams and their careers.

  17. 17Double Suicide

    Double Suicide (1969)

    ★ 7/10

    Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan. But when he meets the lovely courtesan Koharu, he becomes a man…

  18. 18Home by Spring

    Home by Spring (2018)

    ★ 6.4/10

    When an ambitious event planner gets an opportunity she can’t refuse, she goes undercover as her boss and returns to her rural hometown. With the help of her family and the man she left behind, she pulls off the…

  19. 19Honey 3: Dare to Dance

    Honey 3: Dare to Dance (2016)

    ★ 6.7/10

    While attending college in Cape Town, Melea Martin feels constrained by the school's strict policies, and decides to set out on her own. Searching for a way to use her talents as a dancer and inspire the community…

  20. 20Footloose

    Footloose (2011)

    ★ 6.6/10

    Ren MacCormack is transplanted from Boston to the small southern town of Bomont where loud music and dancing are prohibited. Not one to bow to the status quo, Ren challenges the ban, revitalizing the town and falling…

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