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The Man Who Left His Will on Film (1970)
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The Man Who Left His Will on Film (1970)
Original name: 東京战争戦後秘話
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A metaphysical mystery involving a university student's camera getting stolen, and the thief then committing suicide. Looking back upon the event, the situation comes to be questioned if it happened at all.
Style: psychological, touching, weird
Plot: suicide, surrealism, revolt, exploitation, communist, rape, police, student, female nudity, sex scene, university, breaking the fourth wall, japanese new wave, essay, jumping off a building, telephone, camera
Place: tokyo

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out weird, erotic, serious and realistic films with plots about female nudity, japanese new wave, suicide, sex scene, sex, nudity and rape mostly in Drama, Comedy and Crime genres. Some movies like The Man Who Left His Will on Film: Sing a Song of Sex (1967), Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969), Mandara (1971), Naked Pursuit (1969), Emperor Tomato Ketchup (1971). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Sing a Song of Sex (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Four sexually hungry high school students preparing for their university entrance exams meet up with an inebriated teacher singing bawdy drinking songs. This encounter sets them on a less than academic path.
Style: absurd, erotic, serious, realistic, stylized ...
Plot: university, rape, vietnam war, sex, youth, sexuality, politics, innocence lost, love and romance, society, high school life, college ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1967
Place: japan, tokyo
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Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: This is the story of a bookstore thief named Birdy, who is led through various adventures in Tokyo's Shinjuku district by salesgirl Umeko.
Style: avant garde, experimental, weird
Plot: sex, thief, bookstore, pink film, rape, male female relationship, breaking the fourth wall, dark humor, makeover, riot, theft, female nudity ...
Time: year 1969
Place: tokyo
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Mandara (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 132 min.
Story: About two student couples who become members of an obscure sect. The cult seeks a prehistoric utopia with free sex and without society's norms and values. The students are torn between ambient pressure and the sect leader's authority to ...
Style: independent film, weird
Plot: rape, utopia, philosophy, forced abortion, sex scene, wife swapping, bare breasts, erotica, ocean, buddhist temple, city, buddhism ...
Place: japan
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Naked Pursuit (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Caught up in the swirling tide of student protests and riots, a young man becomes the unintentional murderer of a policeman. Handcuffed and enroute to jail, he escapes from the authorities and comes across a young woman on the beach, who is intent ...
Plot: rape, male female relationship, sexual abuse, sex, exploitation, beach, student, nudity, japanese new wave, handcuffs
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Emperor Tomato Ketchup (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min.
Story: In a Japanese colony, children overthrow their parental guardians and attempt to form a new society. Their plan spirals out of control and they are soon lost in a web of sexual deviation and violence.
Style: experimental, controversial, disturbing, avant garde
Plot: extreme, sex with a minor, rebellion, rape, female nudity, controversy, male nudity, girl, surrealism, boy, bare breasts, crucifix ...
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Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (1967)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A sex-obsessed young woman, a suicidal young man she meets on the street, a gun-crazy wannabe gangster—these are just three of the irrational, oddball anarchists trapped in an underground hideaway in Oshima’s devilish, absurdist portrait of what ...
Style: political, psychological, serious, realistic, surreal ...
Plot: anarchist, anarchism, suicide, killing spree, death, murder, sexuality, yakuza, held captive, captive, anarchy, murderer ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
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A Story Written with Water (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Struggling with his true emotions, dreams, memories of the past and the reality Shizuo is about to marry, but is torn between his wife-to-be and the love to his mother.
Plot: geisha, mother son relationship, car crash, flashback, loss of father, surrealism, wedding, marriage, extramarital affair, suicide, illness, dream ...
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The Ceremony (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to trace the rise and fall of militaristic Japan across several decades.
Style: spiritual, avant garde
Plot: funeral, spirit, sex, incest, post war japan, car crash, flashback, marriage, tradition, patriarch, colonialism, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 1940s, year 1971, 1950s, 60s
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Secret Chronicle: She Beast Market (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Noboru Tanaka returned to direct the third of Nikkatsu's pinku eiga melodramas examining prostitution in various Japanese cities. This one focuses on modern-day Osaka, and although it is still a softcore film, is the most outrageous of the lot. ...
Plot: prostitution, exploitation, sex scene, brother, smoking, rooster, suicide, brother sister incest, pink film, female nudity, brother sister sex, sex with sister ...
Time: 70s
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Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (1971)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Conditions have been better for the nameless protagonist: his grandmother is a shoplifter and his war criminal father and sister have an unhealthy, intimate relationship with the family rabbit.
Style: avant garde, experimental, erotic drama, offbeat, disturbing ...
Plot: surrealism, female nudity, sex, youth, alienation, poetry, success, anarchy, dysfunctional family, family relations, teenager, nudity ...
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Woman of the Lake (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A married woman lets her lover take naked pictures of her. The photos end up in possession of a man who starts blackmailing the couple.
Plot: blackmail, erotic scene, mental disorder, sex scene, sea, adultery, passionate kiss, photographer, female nudity, extramarital affair, voyeurism, body double ...
Place: tokyo
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This Transient Life (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Near a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk finds out, the young man becomes an assistant to a master sculptor, only to proceed to complicate matters with his affairs.
Style: spiritual, erotic
Plot: brother sister sex, incest, brother sister incest, time travel, extreme, crazy love, art, spirit, priest, suicide, voyeurism, sculptor ...
Place: kyoto japan
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Action (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Bruno is an idealistic hero who questions the meaning of life in this confusing and sometimes hallucinatory erotic drama. After a night in jail, he is gang-raped by punk rockers in a garbage dump. He later saves an old man who believes he is ...
Style: erotic, sexy, surreal
Plot: surrealism, exploitation, erotica, absurd humor, female nudity, rape, psychiatric hospital, nude dance, male objectification, mental institution, prison, death ...
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Boy (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A family of four lives off of scams in which they pretend to be injured by automobiles. After suffering an injury during the war, the father believes he is an invalid. He and his wife have a 10-year-old boy and a 3-year-old girl. The adults pretend ...
Style: experimental, serious, realistic, thought provoking, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: youth, family relations, child abuse, dysfunctional family, train, boy, treasure hunt, traumatic childhood, bad father, abusive father, father son relationship, stepmother ...
Time: year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place: japan, hokkaido
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Double Suicide (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Successful 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 obsessed. Koharu returns his love, ...
Style: surreal, psychedelic, mind bending, romantic, spiritual ...
Plot: suicide, female nudity, sex, prostitution, existentialism, love letter, spirituality, prostitute, samurai, couples, power relations, rebellion ...
Time: year 1969, 18th century
Place: japan, asia
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Slave Widow (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min.
Story: After her husband's suicide, young and beautiful Mitsuko Fuji feels alone and helpless -- until one of her husband's major creditors, Mr. Kito, offers a sympathetic ear and a cancellation of all debts. However, Mitsuko soon learns that ...
Style: erotic
Plot: exploitation, pink film, erotica, cheating fiance, nudity, widow, suicide by drowning, bare breasts, suicide, female nudity, father son relationship, sex ...
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The Moon in the Gutter (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 137 min.
Story: A dockworker seeking revenge on the killer of his sister finds himself the object of desire for two women.
Style: neo noir, surreal, mind bending, psychological, serious ...
Plot: glamour, surrealism, revenge, rape, murder, alcohol abuse, vengeance, investigation, love and romance, obsession, life is a bitch, rape and revenge ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: france, marseille
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Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A feverish collision of avant-garde aesthetics and grind-house shocks, Funeral Parade of Roses takes us on an electrifying journey into the nether-regions of the late-’60s Tokyo underworld. In Toshio Matsumoto’s controversial debut feature, ...
Style: avant garde, disturbing, mind bending, surreal, art house ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay bar, lgbtq, transvestite, transgender, surrealism, prostitution, gay incest, female psychopath, trippy, pink film ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: tokyo, japan
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After World War II, some Tokyo prostitutes band together with a strict code: no pimps, attack any street walker who comes into our territory, defend the abandoned building we call home, and punish whomever gives away sex (who falls in love). Maya, a ...
Style: erotic, erotic drama, grindhouse, sexy, tense ...
Plot: prostitute, yakuza, female nudity, sex, brothel, sexploitation, japanese history, whore, bondage, pimp, world war two veteran, fugitive ...
Time: 1940s, post world war two, 20th century
Place: tokyo, asia
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Woman with Pierced Nipples (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 69 min.
Story: A man and woman share in some bizarre and masochistic sex-games, including chain-bondage, shoe-licking, watersports, and car-antenna f!cking. There is a side-plot about a female slavery ring where the captors are imprisoned in cages to be used at ...
Style: sexy, erotic
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A timid young woman who lives with her domineering mother accepts an Adult Video scout's offer to "become somebody else" by performing in porn videos. As she rises in popularity, the boundaries between her two lives begin to ...
Style: psychological, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, erotic ...
Plot: porn industry, suicide, alienation, stalking, japanese woman, porn actress, popularity, jealousy, self discovery, interview, employer employee relationship, sex work ...
Place: tokyo
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Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When six girls and a guy all teenagers are found with their wrists slit on a high school playground, it's left to their guidance counselor to try to make sense of the mystery behind the apparent suicide pact. Told in nonlinear fashion, the ...
Style: touching, serious, sincere, psychological, suspense
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Gushing Prayer: A 15-Year-Old Prostitute (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min.
Story: A young girl, already a jaded sexual veteran, embarks on an odyssey of self-discovery to find out the true reasons for her dissatisfaction and total desensitization.
Style: erotic, controversial, avant garde, weird
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A middle-aged man sets out on a symbolic journey through past, present, and future to learn why an old friend committed suicide, and learns much about his own life along the way.
Style: surreal
Plot: surrealism, female nudity, apparition, nudity, partisan, suicide, ghost, christmas eve, metaphysics, memory, first love, ex husband ex wife relationship
Place: poland
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New Tokyo Decadence: The Slave (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 62 min.
Story: A secretary is introduced to the world of BDSM by her boss. She becomes his personal slave as they take a walk on the wild side of experimentations. This film is based on main actress Rinako Hirasawa’s personal experiences.
Style: erotic, psychological, disturbing, suspense, captivating
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Hakuchu no Torima" is the portrayal of a violent rapist as seen through the recollections of his wife and one of his victims. As the film starts, Eisuke (Kei Sato) encounters Shino (Saeda Kawaguchi), who works as a maid in a house. She is a ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, rough, bleak ...
Plot: sexual abuse, beast, suicide, psychopath, murder, rapist, pink film, sex, rape, couple relations, society, criminal heroes ...
Time: 60s
Place: tokyo, japan
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Permissive (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Suzy arrives in London to visit an old school friend, she is unwittingly plunged into the ruthless world of the 'groupie'. Fuelled by sex, drugs and jealousy, her new lifestyle fosters in her a cold, cynical instinct for survival. But ...
Style: offbeat, independent film
Plot: lesbian, groupie, sexploitation, swing, female nudity, exploitation, rock music, lesbian sex, suicide attempt, sex scene, suicide, nudity ...
Place: london
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A separated couple meet again after 10 years when the body of their missing son is found. Amid the guilt of losing a loved one, they hesitantly move toward affirmation of life, acceptance of death, and even the possibility of reconciliation.
Style: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, touching, serious ...
Plot: female nudity, couple relations, couples, dealing with death, choir, husband wife relationship, police, funeral, sex scene, letter, pedophile, male nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: quebec, canada
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Diary of a Sinner (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The revealing story of the shocking exploits of those who fulfill the most bizarre fantasies.
Style: erotic, grindhouse
Plot: sexploitation, pimp, canuxploitation, nudity, sex, female nudity, male nudity, erotica, surrealism, rape, suicide, debauchery ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Based on the novel "Kanojo no Jinsei wa Machigai ja Nai" (literal translation: Her life is not at fault) by Director Hiroki, it is a powerful story of survivors, who are all trying to find their own silver linings in life.
Style: captivating, psychological
Plot: orphan, prostitute, money problems, family problems, social relations, prostitution, life is a bitch, loss of family, family tragedy, loss of mother, tragic event, social problems ...
Place: tokyo
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