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Movies Like The Life and Death of a Model: Hymn to the Rose

If you liked The Life and Death of a Model: Hymn to the Rose (1970), a movie directed by Kan Mukai, 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. 1Rip Girls

    Rip Girls (2000)

    ★ 6.3/10

    A teen-age girl and her father come to an island on Hawaii, they find a closer relationship to each other and think about changing the island. During her adventures, Sydney finds friends, a new hobby with her fantastic…

  2. 2Imprint

    Imprint (2006)

    ★ 6.8/10

    An American journalist travels through 19th-century Japan to find the prostitute he fell in love with but instead learns of the physical and existential horror that befell her after he left.

  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. 4Lucky Them

    Lucky Them (2013)

    ★ 6/10

    More interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work, veteran rock journalist Ellie Klug has one last chance to prove her value to her magazine’s editor: a no-stone-unturned search to discover what…

  5. 5Flower & Snake: Zero

    Flower & Snake: Zero (2014)

    ★ 6/10

    Misaki Amemiya is an assistant inspector for the Metropolitan Police Department's Community Safety Bureau who becomes ensnared in a trap while investigating a mysterious illegal video website called "Babylon". Soon…

  6. 6Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl

    Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl (1998)

    ★ 7.2/10

    Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even…

  7. 7Antiporno

    Antiporno (2017)

    ★ 6.6/10

    Kyôko, a traumatized young Japanese girl, finds herself struggling with her self-confidence in her adult life. Growing up in a family without her mother and her sister, she constantly questions the rationale of sex and…

  8. 8One Million Yen Girl

    One Million Yen Girl (2008)

    ★ 7.2/10

    A 21-year-old girl is released from prison, only to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her and family conflicts. She decides to save one million yen, move to where no one knows her and keep repeating the process.

  9. 9The Poker House

    The Poker House (2008)

    ★ 6.2/10

    Agnes and her two sisters struggle through a day in a home overrun by gamblers, thieves, and johns.

  10. 10Lou

    Lou (2022)

    ★ 6.5/10

    A young girl is kidnapped during a powerful storm. Her mother joins forces with her mysterious neighbour to set off in pursuit of the kidnapper. Their journey will test their limits and expose the dark secrets of their…

  11. 11I Believe in Unicorns

    I Believe in Unicorns (2015)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter.

  12. 12PAW Patrol: Jet to the Rescue

    PAW Patrol: Jet to the Rescue (2020)

    ★ 7.1/10

    A royal relative steals a gem with the power to make things fly, the Paw Patrol takes to the skies to stop him and save Barkingburg.

  13. 13When Marnie Was There

    When Marnie Was There (2014)

    ★ 7.9/10

    Upon being sent to live with relatives in the countryside due to an illness, an emotionally distant adolescent girl becomes obsessed with an abandoned mansion and infatuated with a girl who lives there - a girl who may…

  14. 145 Centimeters per Second

    5 Centimeters per Second (2007)

    ★ 7.3/10

    Three moments in Takaki's life: his relationship with Akari and their forced separation; his friendship with Kanae, who is secretly in love with him; the demands and disappointments of adulthood, an unhappy life in a…

  15. 15Bastard Out of Carolina

    Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)

    ★ 7.1/10

    A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as…

  16. 16Maborosi

    Maborosi (1995)

    ★ 7.5/10

    A tragedy strikes a young woman's life without warning or reason. She continues living while searching for meaning in a lonely world.

  17. 17Tinker Bell and the Pirate Fairy

    Tinker Bell and the Pirate Fairy (2014)

    ★ 7/10

    Zarina, a smart and ambitious dust-keeper fairy who’s captivated by Blue Pixie Dust and its endless possibilities, flees Pixie Hollow and joins forces with the scheming pirates of Skull Rock, who make her captain of…

  18. 18Love & Sex

    Love & Sex (2000)

    ★ 6.2/10

    When her rather explicit copy is rejected, magazine journalist Kate is asked by her editor to come up with an article on loving relationships instead, and to do so by the end of the day. This gets Kate thinking back…

  19. 19Joe Versus the Volcano

    Joe Versus the Volcano (1990)

    ★ 5.8/10

    Hypochondriac Joe Banks finds out he has six months to live, quits his dead end job, musters the courage to ask his co-worker out on a date, and is then hired to jump into a volcano by a mysterious visitor.

  20. 20Erin Brockovich

    Erin Brockovich (2000)

    ★ 7.4/10

    A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work for an attorney and comes across medical records describing illnesses…

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