Movies like She and He

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She and He (1963)
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She and He (1963)
Original name: 彼女と彼
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: As her husband Eiichi becomes more entangled in his life as businessman, Naoko looks for ways to expand her own life even as her husband's life shrinks in scope and intimacy. She finds new interests, new love, and a greater sense of her place in the world.
Plot: bourgeoisie, poverty, poor, self discovery, japanese man, woman, japanese woman, husband wife relationship, compassion, japanese wife, empathy, japanese new wave

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, serious, weird and erotic films with plots about japanese new wave, female nudity, woman, japanese woman, sex scene, adultery and love mostly in Drama, Romance and Crime genres. Some movies like She and He: Wilderness: Part One (2017), This Transient Life (1970), Believers (2022), Woman of the Lake (1966), A Story Written with Water (1965). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Wilderness: Part One (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 157 min.
Story: Set in the near future around Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinji got out from a youth detention center. Barikan suffers from stuttering and extreme shyness. These two men meet in a boxing gym. Shinji and Barikan become friends and pursue boxing under a ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, psychotronic
Plot: boxing, friendship, criminal, japanese man, life is a bitch, social problems, poor, boxer, social issues, society, poverty, female nudity ...
Time: near future
Place: japan, tokyo
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95%
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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94%
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Believers (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story: On a small island somewhere near Japan, three cult members have devoted themselves to the "Deserted Island Program". Calling each other by rank, these people-two men and one women-have been chosen by their superiors to throw off the ...
Style: dramatic, psychological, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating
Plot: lifestyle, japanese man, social issues, woman, japanese woman, life is a bitch, corruption, social problems, human nature, male female relationship, female nudity, island
Place: japan
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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
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77%
A Fugitive from the Past (1965)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 183 min.
Story: Three robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them shoots them; their corpses wash up near the aftermath of a maritime calamity, provoking a policeman's interest.
Plot: yakuza, police officer, police investigation, mistrust, prostitute, murder, robbery, shipwreck, arson, poverty, typhoon, escape ...
Time: year 1965
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71%
Confessions Among Actresses (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story: In this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from acting is explored. The lives of three actresses are laid bare, and scenes from their lives are woven in and out of interviews with each of them. Each of them ...
Plot: suicide attempt, extramarital affair, nightmare comes true, nightmare, memory, mirror, acid, filmmaking, dream, past, incest, psychoanalysis ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Irezumi (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In this elegant proto-feminist shocker from Yasuzo Masumuro, a woman forced into prostitution wreaks her spidery revenge. A mysterious tattoo artist puts his masterpiece, a human-faced spider, on a kidnapped woman's back. She and her lover are ...
Style: thought provoking, masterpiece
Plot: samurai, female nudity, yakuza, femme fatale, girl, prostitution, forced prostitution, vengeance, strangulation, kidnapping, prostitute, adultery ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
The Man Who Left His Will on Film (1970)
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: touching, psychological, weird
Plot: suicide, surrealism, revolt, exploitation, communist, sex scene, rape, female nudity, police, student, university, breaking the fourth wall ...
Place: tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
With Beauty and Sorrow (1965)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When the man who seduced the famous painter Otoko as a teenager--and then wrote a bestselling novel about it--reappears in her life, her pupil--and lesbian lover--hatches a plot to destroy the man and his family.
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, writers, murder, revenge, jealousy, love, accident, miscarriage, japanese woman, japanese new wave, rowing
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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
Plot: underage sex, erotica, underground, sex with teenager, pink film, exploitation, japanese teenager, japanese girl, hotel room, teenager, teacher, pregnant teenager ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Affair in the Snow (1968)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In an isolated mountain resort, a woman gets involved in a love triangle between herself, her volatile lover and her ex-boyfriend, for whom she had platonic feelings.
Plot: love triangle, love, woman, mountain, memory, unrequited love, sex scene, teacher, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, snow, suicide, extramarital affair ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Ooku (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
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Story: The mini-series revolves around the harem of a shogun in the Edo Period in Japan. The women jostle and compete with one another and with their lord and on occasion even wield more power than their master.
Style: historical drama, exciting, serious, costume drama, dramatic ...
Plot: cat fight, harlot, woman, harem, female protagonist, japanese woman, japanese man, male female relationship, women, japanese wife, japanese culture, strong female presence ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Masquerade (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Banned for over a decade because of its "explicit" sexual situations, when this film was released in Yugoslavia in 1983 the "explicit" scenes had become tame. Other than the notoriety it obtained through censorship, the film has ...
Style: erotic, homoerotic, weird
Plot: older woman younger man sex, boy, husband rapes wife, husband wife relationship, adultery, jealousy, basketball, married, marriage, woman, blackmail, orgy ...
Time: 60s
Place: former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Insect Woman (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle. Imamura, with this metaphor, introduces the life of Tome, who keeps trying to change her poor life.
Style: freeze frame, semi documentary, cynical, biting, realistic ...
Plot: incest, breast feeding, prostitute, prostitution, incestuous relationship, forced sex, brothel, sex, buddhism, serf, japanese history, poverty ...
Time: 1910s, 1940s, 1930s, 1950s, 1920s ...
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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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47%
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Furin, hentai, monmon chômon (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 71 min.
Story: Minoru is dead. However, he was conscious for some reason and could not hide his confusion and surprise. His body doesn't move and he has no senses, but only his ears can be heard. The voice of his son and his wife, who lived together, made him ...
Style: emotional, captivating, serious, dramatic, bizarre
Plot: woman, standing sex, horny, adultery, cuckold, fetish, sex scene, dark humor, sex dream, japanese woman, human, big breasts ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Erfolg (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 265 min.
Story: For fans of history, this glimpse of Munich society in the 1920s will be a much-treasured event. The story revolves around an art-gallery manager who puts on a show featuring the scandalous works of a woman artist who committed suicide. He is ...
Plot: world war two, woman, artist, intrigue, smoking, politics, bourgeoisie, female nudity, greed, talking after sex, barefoot woman
Time: 1920s
Place: munich germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Love Life (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Taeko and her husband, Jiro, are living a peaceful existence with her young son Keita, when a tragic accident brings the boy's long-lost father, Park, back into her life. To cope with the pain and guilt, Taeko throws herself into helping this ...
Style: beautiful
Plot: shakespeare's othello, champion, cat, balloon, dog, mother, father, love, partner, husband, deaf man, accidental death ...
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42%
Gate of Flesh (1964)
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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42%
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Kokoro (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Canada, Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After her brother's death, Alice leave France for Japan and takes refuge in a small village just above the cliffs. Her brother Nathan said to her before he died that he finally founded peace there thanks to a certain Daïsuké. Following his ...
Style: captivating, serious, dramatic, atmospheric
Plot: humanity, death of brother, countryside, rural setting, small village, village, brother, brother and sister, woman, japanese man, female protagonist, female nudity ...
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40%
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Prison Break (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: One late night in June 1942, Sakuma Seitaro dangles from the frame of a skylight in an isolation cell in Akita Prison. He forces open the glass window and breaks out of jail. This crime even reaches the ears of Urata Susumu, the chief warden of ...
Plot: prison, prison escape, japanese police, security guard, snow, japanese woman, fleeing, world war two, prisoner, warden, life sentence, escape ...
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40%
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True Mothers (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 140 min.
Story: After a long and unsuccessful struggle to get pregnant, convinced by the discourse of an adoption association, Satoko and her husband decide to adopt a baby boy. A few years later, their parenthood is shaken by a threatening unknown girl, Hikari, ...
Style: captivating
Plot: family relations, children, husband wife relationship, couples, father son relationship, parents and children, kids and family, male female relationship, couple relations, relationships, mother son relationship, woman ...
Place: hiroshima japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Akitsu Springs (1962)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal attraction between a spineless intellectual and a strong woman is conventional, but its enactment is ...
Style: avant garde
Plot: illness, alcoholism, water, love, world war two, spa, japanese new wave
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Fumiko's Legs (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When older man Tsukakoshi asks Unokichi to paint it is of his mistress, the geisha Fumiko. Tsukakoshi loves the feet and legs part of Fumiko's anatomy. The fetishism gives the art student a commission to put his talent to use.
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot: foot fetish, fetish, geisha, problem, painter, fetishist, japanese man, love affair, artist, male female relationship, relationships, drawing ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Assassination (1964)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay, sparking civil unrest and the major political manoeuvring that saw the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate. At a time when assassination had become a ...
Plot: imperialism, tokugawa shogunate, martial arts, edo period, scheming, rebel army, samurai sword, hara kiri, assassination, revolt, honor, seppuku ...
Time: 1850s, 19th century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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