Movies like Hitozuma kaseifu: Jôji no aegi (2000)
The best movies like Hitozuma kaseifu: Jôji no aegi (2000) are Tokyo Decadence (1992), In the Realm of the Senses (1976) and Imprint (2006). If Hitozuma kaseifu: Jôji no aegi hooked you, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedGuilty of Romance (2011)6.9/10 from 252 votes
- NewestRadiance (2017)Released 2017
- In JapaneseTokyo Decadence (1992)Also in Japanese
Tokyo Decadence (1992)
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 her lover has married.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIn the Realm of the Senses (1976)
A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisImprint (2006)
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.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFlower & Snake: Zero (2014)
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, she's bound and tortured along with Shizuko and an oversexed housewife named Ruri.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAntiporno (2017)
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 the notion of liberty in modern Japanese society.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGuilty of Romance (2011)
While police investigate a woman found dead in a derelict love hotel, a romance novelist's wife lives a life that seems simply a daily repetition without romance. To escape the loveless monotony, she follows her desires and becomes a nude model. Soon, she meets a mentor and begins selling her body to strangers, while at home, she hides behind the façade of the doting wife.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Transgressor (1974)
18 years after the mysterious death of her mother, Maya takes religious vows to find out what terrible things happened to her mother inside the Sacred Heart Convent. As soon as the door closes to the nunnery, the nuns start torturing her. She also has to deal with a lecherous archbishops and a lesbian mother superior.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSex and Fury (1973)
Sex & Fury chronicles Ocho's exploits as she searches for her father's killers, each identified by unique tattoos on their backs (a deer, a boar, and a butterfly). Along the way, she also crosses paths with Shunosuke, a radical set on murdering prominent politician Kurokawa, and Christina, an American spy posing as a gambler.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSakuran (2006)
Kiyoha rises from the lowly courtesan ranks to the high class position of Oiran in the steamy red-light district of Yoshiwara. She is determined to stand on her own two feet and live life as she pleased.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIntentions of Murder (1964)
The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect of a better life.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGo, Go Second Time Virgin (1969)
Go, Go, Second Time Virgin is the story of two damned and abused teenagers who meet and fall in mutant love on a Tokyo rooftop. Their only hope is to cement their love with an escape into oblivion.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Dark Corner (1946)
Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunky secretary, Kathleen Stewart, he dives deep into a mystery in search of answers.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRadiance (2017)
The story follows the social intercourse between a cameraman, Masaya, with a visual impairment, and Misako who disconnects from the world.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Thousand and One Nights (1969)
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.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOriginal Sin (2001)
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.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Duke of Burgundy (2015)
Day in and day out, lovers Cynthia and Evelyn enact an elaborate sadomasochistic fantasy as mistress and maid. But as their ritual of domination and submission begins to turn stale, Cynthia yearns for something more conventional, while Evelyn tries to push their taboos even further.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStar of David: Beauty Hunting (1979)
The life of Tatsuya, a young man of proper yet mysterious descent, whose outward respectability hides his urges for rape and torture.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisUnfaithful (2002)
A New York suburban couple's marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlown Away (1993)
After her mother is killed by a car bomb, a 17-year-old girl lives a reckless and decadent lifestyle. She begins having sex with a boy who works at a local ski resort. He falls in love, and she tells him of her suspicions that her strict father was responsible for her mother's death and wants him to help her out of her situation. He must decide whether she's telling the truth or using him to her own ends.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Pillow Book (1995)
Nagiko has a fetish for calligraphy on the human body and meets her ideal soulmate Jerome, an English translator sent to Japan. However, once Nagiko's father's gay publisher rejoins the scene, the story is overtaken by treachery and bloodlust.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTantei monogatari: Amaku midarana wana (2002)
Amon, who runs a private investigation agency, receives a request from his ex-girlfriend Kumi to investigate her husband's infidelity. Kumi's husband is Amon's best friend, detective Kagawa. As the investigation progresses, the surprising truth surrounding a vicious fraud case comes to light...
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Seduction of the White Angel (1972)
A young woman is troubled by vivid sexual dreams triggered by her experiences as a trainee nurse.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Wet She-Chat (1979)
The story is a humorous portrayal of an innocent woman who, after a certain incident, lets go of her inhibitions and enjoys sex freely.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
At the End of Love (1996)
Keiichi is a serious office worker. His only hobby was cross-dressing, but he stopped doing that after getting married. He thought that was fine. I was happy. However, one day, he meets a beautiful young man at a gay bar where his boss forcefully takes him. After having a fateful and dazzling sex with the young man, he finally abandons his family and work and falls into a sensual daily life with the young man. However, those days of pleasure came to an abrupt end...
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Dandy with Twisted Fingers (1992)
We are a group of thieves called Gokurakudan. A thief is different from your average thief. It frustrates the bullish and helps the bearish. However, the only drawback is that all the members are gay, and they have a strong weakness for good men. Some cracks began to appear in our iron bond...
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Red Assault: Cruel Torture (1983)
Pink film by Mamoru Watanabe.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Maruhi kaiten gyaku soap (1993)
One day, a young man met a woman hanging out in a park and lent her a magazine without checking her ID, but when she returned it, she informed him that a man had run away with her money. Realizing that she had no money, the young man took the loan of this book as a cue and told her that he was working on a business trip to do some reverse soap, and she carefreely told him about her background, saying that she had also worked as a prostitute. The young man wanted to see if her technique would work on a professional woman, so he gave her a reverse soap for free...
Why it matches: Similar story and style
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What are the best movies like Hitozuma kaseifu: Jôji no aegi?
The closest matches to Hitozuma kaseifu: Jôji no aegi are Tokyo Decadence (1992), In the Realm of the Senses (1976) and Imprint (2006). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Hitozuma kaseifu: Jôji no aegi?
Start with Tokyo Decadence (1992), the closest match to Hitozuma kaseifu: Jôji no aegi.
What is the highest-rated movie like Hitozuma kaseifu: Jôji no aegi?
Guilty of Romance (2011), rated 6.9/10 by 252 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Hitozuma kaseifu: Jôji no aegi?
Radiance (2017) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Japanese movies like Hitozuma kaseifu: Jôji no aegi?
Yes: Tokyo Decadence (1992), In the Realm of the Senses (1976) and Imprint (2006).
How are movies similar to Hitozuma kaseifu: Jôji no aegi chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Hitozuma kaseifu: Jôji no aegi, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.