Movies Like Meguru kaikan: Ano hi no watashi to etchi shite
If you liked Meguru kaikan: Ano hi no watashi to etchi shite (2016), a movie directed by Mototsugu Watanabe, 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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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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Imprint (2006)
★ 6.8/10An 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.
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Project X (2012)
★ 6.9/10Three high school seniors throw a party to make a name for themselves. As the night progresses, things spiral out of control as word of the party spreads.
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Room 237 (2012)
★ 6.1/10A subjective documentary that explores various theories about hidden meanings in Stanley Kubrick's classic film The Shining. Five very different points of view are illuminated through voice over, film clips, animation…
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Below Her Mouth (2017)
★ 6.8/10An unexpected affair quickly escalates into a heart-stopping reality for two women whose passionate connection changes their lives forever.
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A Thousand and One Nights (1969)
★ 6.7/10Aldin, a vagabond water vendor, embarks of a series of fantastical and tragic misadventures through the Middle East in search of love, fortune, and power.
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Still the Water (2014)
★ 6.7/10On the Japanese island of Amami, despite lacking parental guidance, Kaito and his girlfriend Kyoko try to find their place in the world. While Kaito suffers from the absence of his father, who moved to Tokyo after his…
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Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)
★ 6.1/10An all-girl rock band moves to Hollywood in the hope of achieving success, only to fall into a whirlpool of wickedness and decadence.
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Tomie: Rebirth (2001)
★ 7.2/10Young art student Hideo paints an unnerving portrait of Tomie, who whispers that she loves him. Inexplicably, he reacts by stabbing her to death with a painting trowel. Two friends, Takumi and Shunichi, arrive on the…
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The Clique (2008)
★ 5.9/10A young girl tries to fit in with a clique of popular middle school girls after moving into the guest house of one of their homes.
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V/H/S/94 (2021)
★ 6.1/10After the discovery of a mysterious VHS tape, a brutish police SWAT team launches a high-intensity raid on a remote warehouse, only to discover a sinister cult compound whose collection of pre-recorded material…
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Hard to Die (1990)
★ 6/10While doing the inventory for a lingerie outlet in a high rise office building, five attractive women are terrorized by a series of bizarre killings. They suspect that the strange janitor, who witnessed another series…
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Rape Zombie: Lust of the Dead (2012)
★ 6.4/10After a nuclear attack in Tokyo, the female population is attacked by infected males who have become sex-crazed zombies, hungry for human flesh. Officeworker Momoko and nurse Nozomi seek shelter in a Shinto Shrine…
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Heavy Traffic (1973)
★ 6.5/10A white dropout struggles to become a cartoonist and filmmaker, drawing inspiration from the harsh, gritty world around him. Still sharing his rundown apartment with his middle-aged parents, an oafish slob of an…
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Enter the Void (2010)
★ 7.3/10This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar, a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda. When Oscar is killed by police…
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Mad God (2021)
★ 6.8/10A silent figure known as The Assassin travels through a nightmare underworld of tortured souls, ruined cities and wretched monstrosities forged from the primordial horrors of the unconscious mind of Phil Tippett, the…
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Original Sin (2001)
★ 6.2/10A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp.
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The Sweet East (2023)
★ 6.5/10A picaresque journey through contemporary America, undertaken by a young woman granted access to the strange sects and cults that proliferate in this country by a series of gatekeepers eager to win her over.
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Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV (2001)
★ 6/10A horrific explosion creates a dimensional portal between Tromaville and its dimensional mirror image, Amortville. While the Toxie is trapped in the mirror dimension, Tromaville comes under the control of his evil…
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Pimp (2018)
★ 6.2/10An urban love story set on the hard streets of the Bronx. A struggling female pimp, named Wednesday, grows up learning the game from her dad. Once he's gone she's left to look out for her prostitute mother and…