Movies Like Applause: Hitomi Kobayashi in London 3
If you liked Applause: Hitomi Kobayashi in London 3 (1987), a movie directed by Fumihito Mitsuoka, 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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Gantz: Perfect Answer (2011)
★ 6.6/10Summoned by the black sphere, Kei and Masaru fight against extraterrestrials until Masaru grows tired of fighting and refuses to continue.
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Haru (1996)
★ 7.9/10A young Tokyo businessman joins an online movie forum and develops a special bond with one of its members through back and forth e-mails.
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Tokyo Decadence (1992)
★ 6/10A 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…
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In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
★ 6.6/10A 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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Intentions of Murder (1964)
★ 7/10The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect of a better life.
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Genius Party Beyond (2008)
★ 6.4/10Five stories, five maestros, five styles and one common denominator: maximum creativity. Studio 4°C, the coolest label on the planet, invites us for the second time to an exclusive reunion of a talents with a group…
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It Feels So Good (2019)
★ 6.6/10When 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…
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A Bride for Rip Van Winkle (2016)
★ 6.9/10A woman hires actors and strangers to pretend to be her friends and family at her wedding.
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Ju-on: The Beginning of the End (2014)
★ 6/10A school teacher visits the home of a boy who's been absent from school for a long period of time, unaware of the horrific tragedy which occurred in the boy's household many years ago.
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Reincarnation (2005)
★ 6.1/10A Japanese actress begins having strange visions and experiences after landing a role in a horror film about a real-life murder spree that took place over forty years ago.
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The Rewrite (2014)
★ 6/10An Oscar-winning writer in a slump leaves Hollywood to teach screenwriting at a college on the East Coast, where he falls for a single mom taking classes there.
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Short Peace (2013)
★ 6.4/10A traveler is confronted by spirits in an abandoned shrine; a story of honor and firefighting in ancient Japan; a white bear defends the royal family from a monstrous red demon; ragtag soldiers battle a robotic force…
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See Me After Class (2012)
★ 7.2/10Due to an error the male student Kagami Yuuki is registered for a room in the girls dormitory of his new co-ed high school. Since no male rooms are available he is left with no other option than to sleep in the girls…
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Revenge Porn: PAIN OF LOVE (2019)
★ 8.4/10Rei 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.
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Inuyasha the Movie 2: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass (2002)
★ 7.7/10With their most formidable foe vanquished, Inuyasha and his comrades begin returning to their everyday lives. But their peace is fleeting as another adversary emerges: Kaguya, the self-proclaimed princess from the Moon…
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Fireworks (2017)
★ 6.6/10Moshimo, Japan. The annual fireworks festival is about to take place and a group of schoolboys, arguing over whether they are round or flat when viewed from different angles, set out to find it out.
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Tokyo Family (2013)
★ 7.3/10An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved.
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Salomé (2013)
★ 6.1/10After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his kingdom, wanton and proud young Salomé…
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Love Letter (1953)
★ 7.2/10Five years after the end of the Second World War, Reikichi, a repatriated veteran, translates love letters for Japanese women to American GIs, while searching for his lost love, Michiko.
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Always - Sunset on Third Street (2005)
★ 7.7/10In 1958 postwar Tokyo, the residents of a humble Third Street neighbourhood struggle, dream, and grow together as rapid modernisation transforms their lives beneath the shadow of the newly rising Tokyo Tower.