Movies like Hitomi Kurosawa: Clumsy Love Story (1987)
The best movies like Hitomi Kurosawa: Clumsy Love Story (1987) are The Garden of Sinners: A Study in Murder - Part 2 (2009), The Hot Spot (1990) and The Garden of Sinners: A Study in Murder - Part 1 (2007). If Hitomi Kurosawa: Clumsy Love Story hooked you with its romance, these 26 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedTrue Romance (1993)7.5/10 from 3,246 votes
- NewestKaleidoscope: Scarlet Temptation for Ladies (2024)Released 2024
- In JapaneseThe Garden of Sinners: A Study in Murder - Part 2 (2009)Also in Japanese
The Garden of Sinners: A Study in Murder - Part 2 (2009)
In February 1999, a string of murders has Shiki Ryougi and Mikiya Kokutou on edge. These crimes share a disturbing resemblance to a similar set of homicides from 1995, when Shiki and Mikiya first met, and awaken a dark, murderous desire that has laid dormant within Shiki's soul ever since then.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Hot Spot (1990)
Upon arriving to a small town, a drifter quickly gets into trouble with the local authorities — and the local women — after he robs a bank.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Garden of Sinners: A Study in Murder - Part 1 (2007)
August 1995: Mikiya first meets Shiki in a white kimono during a snowing day. Later on, at the high school freshmen ceremony, Mikiya sees Shiki in the crowd and chases after her, introducing himself to her. But Shiki hides a big secret: A wave of bizarre murders occur around many loose ends, and no suspects. there are still many questions: Who to believe? Who is the murderer? What is the secret of Shiki? and especially: Who is SHIKI?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHenry & June (1990)
While traveling in Paris, author Henry Miller and his wife, June, meet Anais Nin, and sexual sparks fly as Nin starts an affair with the openly bisexual June. When June is forced to return to the U.S., she gives Nin her blessing to sleep with her husband. Then, when June returns to France, an unexpected, and sometimes contentious, threesome forms.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Garden of Sinners: Oblivion Recording (2008)
January 1999: Apprentice mage Azaka Kokutou, Mikiya's younger sister, has been ordered by her mentor, Touko Aozaki, to investigate a certain incident in which fairies steal the memories of students at Azaka's school, Reien Academy. Azaka launches an investigation with the help of Shiki.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTrue Romance (1993)
Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Woman Bought for Thirty Million Yen (2013)
Asami, a female businesswoman who runs an apparel business, has a huge amount of sponsorship fees that was supposed to be transferred from an investor stolen by someone. Suddenly, she is left with a huge debt and is forced to become a "body funder."
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
The Man from the Sea (1991)
A middle-aged man comes to the coast in search of some place to die. But that beach was a gay beach. There, the man meets a gay young man for a reason...
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Coming Out, Our Declaration as a Couple (1993)
A suspicious man named Yoshioka, who claims to be a friend of Takashi's late father, offers a car as payment for two university students acting in a private adult video. The two friends Takashi and Shogo desperately want a car to make their campus life more meaningful, so they reluctantly agree to appear in a gay adult video together. They somehow manage to get through the humiliating filming and get the promised car. Takashi thinks he'll never do it again, but at that moment something he doesn't realize is beginning to sprout inside him. The next day, Takashi is called by Yoshioka to visit his office. Yoshioka's sponsor, a man who calls himself Hayami, appears before Takashi. Hayami asks Takashi to appear in another gay adult video, and if he refuses, he will copy Yoshioka's tape and distribute it everywhere. Takashi succumbs to the blackmail threats, but during the filming of the video, Shogo looks for him.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Naughty Office Lady: Don't Pull Out Until Morning (2000)
A couple of men and women who look happy. However, each of them was living another life that the other did not know. Their words, which at times seem to betray their own feelings, crystallize into a dry ending.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Ice Cream No Kahori (1991)
A man turns 30 and returns to his hometown. Memories come back to him of an old man who ran the ice cream shop..
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Molester Stalker Targeted Beauty Model (2001)
A sad love story with a hint of saspense about a master detective who seduces women with sophisticated technology, his target, a beautiful model, and the madness of the stalker who hunts her down.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Slutty Goldfish Princess: Falling in Love with the Sea (2000)
An erotic fantasy story in which actress Yoko Satomi plays the role of a mysterious slutty housekeeper. Koji, a dull office worker, buys unsold goldfish and returns home, but his wife Emi runs away from home after a petty quarrel. There is an awkward atmosphere with his daughter Yukiko, who is a ronin student, but the situation changes when Izumi, who is a housekeeper, tutor and an experience-based sex counselor, shows up. An intense sexual experience is on the horizon, full of lust, love and forbidden desires.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Unfaithful Wife: Sticky and Messy (2002)
Middle-aged Hiroshi, a 53‑year‑old salaryman whose wife cheats on him and whose daughter barely tolerates him, finds himself discarded by his company and adrift—until a mysterious phone call from Mariko, his long‑lost love who supposedly died thirty years ago, pulls him into a forbidden reverie and dreams of a different life with her. Mariko, embodied by the irresistible Yōko Satomi—dressed in the provocative uniforms and iconic emblems of the old protest movements—the past awakens in tantalizing detail. As Hiroshi dials into a life he might have lived with Mariko, full of erotic promise and the intoxicating thrill of rewriting his destiny.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Manji (2006)
One day, Sonoko, a married woman having a husband, meets young, beautiful Mitsuko. Puzzled Sonoko is charmed by the beauty of Mitsuko, and two people fall into relations between women at the start.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Ecstasy of the Angels (1972)
A militant revolutionary group is torn apart by betrayal as its members descend into paranoia and sexual decadence.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Rose Story: Give Me Love (1991)
Kanamori, the master of a homo bar, had come fishing with Minami and Tsubasa, who work as hosts at the bar. Kanamori has just lost his beloved host Takashi in an accident. It was a heartbreaking trip for him... Minami and Tsubasa confirm their love for each other at an inn, leaving Kanamori immersed in fishing.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Shining Boy (1989)
Toshio and Masato live like a married couple and jointly run the gay bar "Crystal". One day, Toshio receives a letter asking him to live with his son, Shinji, who he hasn't seen for over 15 years since he broke up with his wife, and is moving from the countryside to Tokyo to enter a talent school.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Married Woman and Mistress Affair Peeping (1998)
A sensual drama depicting the friendship between a woman who continues to have an affair and a man who provokes her by secretly filming her. Satomi Yoko, who has just made her debut, received high praise for her passionate performance as a woman who drowns her loneliness with infidelity and is also attracted to an unknown voyeur. Maki (Yoko Satomi), who lives alone, invites Yuji (Akira Yokozuka) to her room and they get close to each other, and the act is revealed to the detective hired by his wife (Keiko Seto), but he is caught on camera from the apartment across the street. The presence of Toshiaki (Atsushi Toyama), who spies on Maki and calls Maki every time they have an affair, causes ripples in their muddy relationship.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Married Woman Boutique: Women Indulging in Scandalous Love Affair (2002)
Kimie steps into a boutique each day to support her household in place of her husband, who is unable to work due to heart disease—while her own spirit aches with longing. She surrenders willingly to the irresistible pull of Tsukuda, the dashing apparel‐maker’s salesman whose whispered promises slip between her legs like silk. Kenji, burning to reclaim his former glory, watches his world unravel when he discovers the affair that simmered beneath Kimie’s restraint. And as the truth of Kimie’s glowing secret—her pregnancy—dawns on him, his reproaches choke in his throat, meeting instead a startling, fervent embrace from the woman he thought he knew…
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Kaleidoscope: Scarlet Temptation for Ladies (2024)
An erotic drama depicting the sex, desire, and betrayal of men and women who are driven by love and pleasure. Hayato, an elite employee, marries Kasumi, whom he seduced from his rival Shindo. However, Kasumi is dissatisfied with being treated like a trophy wife, and Hayato also has Kasumi's best friend Shizuka as his lover. Shindo, who has returned from America, appears before Kasumi as if to test her heart.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Miku, Boku dake no Imouto (2018)
One theory is that Sabao is a dull middle-aged man who works at a factory that smells like scent, which is rumored to be making parts for military equipment. I have no friends, and of course no lover. My only reason to live is my sister, Miku, who waits for him to come home every day. A gentle and cute, perfect sister, Miku. Sabao feels great happiness in living with her. However, the feelings for Miku, who was growing at the same time as happiness, were never forgiven by his brother and sister.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
OL Pachinker Tamami (2013)
Erotic drama full of pachinko trivia.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
The Notorious Concubines (1968)
Based on the Chinese classic "Jin Ping Mei". Original Japanese cut directed by Koji Wakamatsu and produced by Shochiku. Set in Song-dynasty China, Wu Song rises to fame and becomes a guard captain. He is captivated by his brother’s wife, Pan Jinlian, whose beauty also ensnares the wealthy libertine Ximen Qing. To possess her, Ximen Qing has Wu Song’s brother murdered. When the corrupt authorities refuse justice, Wu Song is imprisoned, escapes with the help of the Liangshan bandits, and joins their ranks. Ximen Qing descends further into decadence, but Wu Song eventually returns, leading an attack on the town.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Naughty Boys (2002)
Gacchan is marking his birthday and his partner Takayuki is waiting for him at home so they can celebrate. However, not only does Gacchan forget about his partner but he is also flirting with others in the hood. Takayuki leaves their apartment and embarks on a night journey that will lead him to cheat on his partner. Will they be able to rehabilitate their relationship?
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Apartment Wife: Adultery in broad daylight (1997)
Asako, who has been married for eight years and has no children, is dissatisfied with her husband who comes home late every night, but she lives peacefully with him after he stops his unfaithful habit. However, a man she meets at a bowling alley with her neighbor Michiko and a beautiful woman who Asako's husband is interested in, cause changes in their lives.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
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What are the best movies like Hitomi Kurosawa: Clumsy Love Story?
The closest matches to Hitomi Kurosawa: Clumsy Love Story are The Garden of Sinners: A Study in Murder - Part 2 (2009), The Hot Spot (1990) and The Garden of Sinners: A Study in Murder - Part 1 (2007). Below are 23 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Hitomi Kurosawa: Clumsy Love Story?
Start with The Garden of Sinners: A Study in Murder - Part 2 (2009), the closest match to Hitomi Kurosawa: Clumsy Love Story.
What is the highest-rated movie like Hitomi Kurosawa: Clumsy Love Story?
True Romance (1993), rated 7.5/10 by 3,246 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Hitomi Kurosawa: Clumsy Love Story?
Kaleidoscope: Scarlet Temptation for Ladies (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Japanese movies like Hitomi Kurosawa: Clumsy Love Story?
Yes: The Garden of Sinners: A Study in Murder - Part 2 (2009), The Garden of Sinners: A Study in Murder - Part 1 (2007) and The Garden of Sinners: Oblivion Recording (2008).
How are movies similar to Hitomi Kurosawa: Clumsy Love Story chosen?
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