Movies Like Kagero-za
If you liked Kagero-za (1981), a romance and drama movie directed by Seijun Suzuki, 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.
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Ugetsu (1953)
★ 8/10Also drama and mysteryIn 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage's warning against seeking to profit from warfare. Genjuro's pursuit…
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The Vanishing of Sidney Hall (2018)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and mysteryOver the course of 12 years, and three stages of life, Sidney Hall falls in love, writes the book of a generation and then disappears without a trace.
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Winter's Tale (2014)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and mysteryA burglar falls for an heiress as she dies in his arms. When he learns that he has the gift of reincarnation, he sets out to save her.
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Possession (2002)
★ 6/10Also drama and mysteryMaud Bailey, a brilliant English academic, is researching the life and work of poet Christabel La Motte. Roland Michell is an American scholar in London to study Randolph Henry Ash, now best-known for a collection of…
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Blind (2017)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and romanceA novelist is blinded in a car crash that killed his wife and several years later rediscovers his passion for life and writing when he embarks on an affair with the neglected wife of an indicted businessman.
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Journey to the Shore (2015)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and romanceMizuki's husband Yusuke has been missing for three years. He suddenly comes back home as a ghost and asks Mizuki to go on a trip with him. Their trip consists of visiting the people that helped Yusuke on his previous…
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Peter Ibbetson (1935)
★ 7/10Also drama and romanceWhen his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live with a severe uncle in England. Years later, Peter is an architect with little time for women, until he begins a project…
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Maria's Lovers (1984)
★ 6/10Also drama and romanceA World War II prisoner returns home to his childhood sweetheart. However, back home, he discovers that he has to compete to win her love.
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Rebecca (1940)
★ 7.9/10Also mystery and romanceStory of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips…
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Somewhere in Time (1980)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and romanceYoung writer Richard Collier is met on the opening night of his first play by an old lady who begs him to "Come back to me". Mystified, he tries to find out about her, and learns that she is a famous stage actress from…
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Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and romanceAn unexpected love triangle, a seduction trap, and a random encounter are the three episodes, told in three movements to depict three female characters and trace the trajectories between their choices and regrets.
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My Tomorrow, Your Yesterday (2016)
★ 7.5/10Also romance and dramaTakatoshi Minamiyama majors in art at an university in Kyoto. On the train to the school, he sees Emi Fukuju and falls in love with her at first sight. Gathering up all his courage, he speaks to her. They begin to date…
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My Rainy Days (2009)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and romanceA cold and calculating high school student falls in love for the first time with a professor, but he's dying of brain cancer.
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Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between (2022)
★ 6.1/10Also romance and dramaClare and Aidan make a pact to break up before college — no regrets, no broken hearts. But will one epic goodbye date offer them a last chance at love?
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In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and romanceA passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship.
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Northanger Abbey (2007)
★ 6.8/10Also romance and dramaA young woman's penchant for sensational Gothic novels leads to misunderstandings in the matters of the heart.
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Radiance (2017)
★ 6.5/10Also romance and dramaThe story follows the social intercourse between a cameraman, Masaya, with a visual impairment, and Misako who disconnects from the world.
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My Happy Marriage (2023)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and romanceAn unhappy young woman from an abusive family is married off to a fearsome and chilly army commander. But the two learn more about each other, love may have a chance.
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Double Suicide (1969)
★ 7/10Also drama and romanceSuccessful 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…
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Remember (2015)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and mysteryWith the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the death of his family.