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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.

  1. 1Tokyo 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…

  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. 3Project X

    Project X (2012)

    ★ 6.9/10

    Three 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.

  4. 4Room 237

    Room 237 (2012)

    ★ 6.1/10

    A 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…

  5. 5Below Her Mouth

    Below Her Mouth (2017)

    ★ 6.8/10

    An unexpected affair quickly escalates into a heart-stopping reality for two women whose passionate connection changes their lives forever.

  6. 6A Thousand and One Nights

    A Thousand and One Nights (1969)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Aldin, a vagabond water vendor, embarks of a series of fantastical and tragic misadventures through the Middle East in search of love, fortune, and power.

  7. 7Still the Water

    Still the Water (2014)

    ★ 6.7/10

    On 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…

  8. 8Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

    Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)

    ★ 6.1/10

    An all-girl rock band moves to Hollywood in the hope of achieving success, only to fall into a whirlpool of wickedness and decadence.

  9. 9Tomie: Rebirth

    Tomie: Rebirth (2001)

    ★ 7.2/10

    Young 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…

  10. 10The Clique

    The Clique (2008)

    ★ 5.9/10

    A 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.

  11. 11V/H/S/94

    V/H/S/94 (2021)

    ★ 6.1/10

    After 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…

  12. 12Hard to Die

    Hard to Die (1990)

    ★ 6/10

    While 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…

  13. 13Rape Zombie: Lust of the Dead

    Rape Zombie: Lust of the Dead (2012)

    ★ 6.4/10

    After 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…

  14. 14Heavy Traffic

    Heavy Traffic (1973)

    ★ 6.5/10

    A 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…

  15. 15Enter the Void

    Enter the Void (2010)

    ★ 7.3/10

    This 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…

  16. 16Mad God

    Mad God (2021)

    ★ 6.8/10

    A 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…

  17. 17Original Sin

    Original Sin (2001)

    ★ 6.2/10

    A 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.

  18. 18The Sweet East

    The Sweet East (2023)

    ★ 6.5/10

    A 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.

  19. 19Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV

    Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV (2001)

    ★ 6/10

    A 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…

  20. 20Pimp

    Pimp (2018)

    ★ 6.2/10

    An 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…

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