Movies like Sing a Song of Sex (1967)
The best movies like Sing a Song of Sex (1967) are Funeral Parade of Roses (1969), Intentions of Murder (1964) and Profound Desires of the Gods (1968). If Sing a Song of Sex hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedMishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)7.8/10 from 383 votes
- NewestA Story of Yonosuke (2013)Released 2013
- In JapaneseFuneral Parade of Roses (1969)Also in Japanese
Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)
In 1960s Tokyo, Gonda owns a bar in which the gay, cross-dresser, and trans scenes meet. Gonda is in a relationship with the madam of the bar, Leda. As the younger Eddie starts a passionate affair with Gonda, she ignites the jealousy of Leda, unaware of another kind of history between them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies 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: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisProfound Desires of the Gods (1968)
Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori clan, to drill a well to power a sugar mill.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Story of Yonosuke (2013)
The year is 1987 and Japan is just reaching the peak of its economic success. Eighteen-year old Yonosuke Yokomichi arrives in Tokyo from Nagasaki. Ordinary in every way possible, he lives in a suburb far from the excitement of the big city and commutes to a university in the center of Tokyo.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisScandal (1950)
A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThrow Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (1971)
An experimental, psychedelic odyssey through Japanese subculture experienced via the eyes of a disillusioned young man, who must contend with intense familial dysfunction, psychosexual alienation, and existentialist malaise.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWhen a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisSuzaki Paradise: Red Light District (1956)
A jobless young couple, Yoshigi and Tsutue, wind up at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light district in Tokyo. Tsutue talks her way into a job pouring sake for male customers at a small bar run by a sympathetic older woman, while Yoshigi is shunted off into a nearby noodle shop, where he gets a job delivering noodles. Tsutue charms and runs off with one of her clients. Yoshigi, ignoring the attentions of a sweet co-worker, pursues Tsutue.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of November 25th, 1970.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDodes'ka-den (1970)
On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an imaginary trolley, a homeless father and son designing a dream house, a young woman brutalized at home, drunks, schemers, and saints of small kindnesses. Kurosawa crafts a ragged mosaic of hardship, fantasy, and flickers of grace that keep people moving forward.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThree Resurrected Drunkards (1968)
Three students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a minority which is looked down on in Japan. The action develops into a crime story.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Boy (1969)
A family of four lives off of scams in which they pretend to be injured by automobiles.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Sun's Burial (1960)
In Osaka's slum, capricious folks without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the trading of ID cards and blood.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Pleasures of the Flesh (1965)
After committing murder, businessman Atsushi is blackmailed into keeping a suitcase of embezzled money. What follows is a descent into lustful, reckless actions and regret.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Pigs and Battleships (1961)
In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPoem (1972)
A rigidly devoted young servant lives in a decaying aristocratic household as its members drift toward modernity, hedonism, and financial collapse. While the family quarrels over the fate of their estate, he clings to tradition and ritual, becoming a quiet witness to the social change and emotional unrest around him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Insect Woman (1963)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisStreet of Shame (1956)
Follows five prostitutes employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation debates the passage of an anti-prostitution law.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Ceremony (1971)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThis Transient Life (1970)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGate of Flesh (1964)
In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post–World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence, maintaining tenuous friendships and a semblance of order in a world of chaos. But when a renegade ex-soldier stumbles into their midst, lusts and loyalties clash, with tragic results. With Gate of Flesh, visionary director Seijun Suzuki delivers a whirlwind of social critique and pulp drama, shot through with brilliant colors and raw emotions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNanami: The Inferno of First Love (1968)
A teenage goldsmith with a dark past tragically falls in love with a young nude model.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Twenty-Four Eyes (1954)
From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and personal circumstances.
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Worth the HypeMovies like thisSomething Wild (1961)
A young rape victim tries desperately to pick up the pieces of her life, only to find herself at the mercy of a would-be rescuer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Typhoon Club (1985)
Offering a caustic immersion into the lives of disaffected junior high students on the cusp of adulthood, the film takes place over the 5-day period before, during, and after a ferocious, seemingly liberating typhoon, which six of the students endure while marooned in their school.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisViolated Angels (1967)
Based on the mass murder spree of Richard Speck in 1966, a young man who broke into a nurses’ home in Chicago, mutilating and killing several of the inmates, Wakamatsu’s film is a precise, sad delineation of a particular aspect of masculine sexual consciousness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFighting Elegy (1966)
Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually, becomes involved with the radical Kita Ikki group.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLooking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)
A short, unhappy affair with a married man leads a dedicated schoolteacher into the alcohol-and-drug fueled underworld of singles’ bars, where she begins to engage in a pattern of dangerous sexual activity.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDoubt (2008)
In 1964 Bronx, two Catholic school nuns question the new priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled African-American student.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCutter's Way (1981)
Alex Cutter is a boozy, belligerent and deeply cynical Vietnam veteran whose encounter with a landmine during the war has left him minus an eye, a leg and an arm. When his drifter playboy friend Richard Bone is falsely accused of murder, Cutter sets out for revenge in his own inimitable style.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Sing a Song of Sex?
The closest matches to Sing a Song of Sex are Funeral Parade of Roses (1969), Intentions of Murder (1964) and Profound Desires of the Gods (1968). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Sing a Song of Sex?
People who watched Sing a Song of Sex most often go on to Funeral Parade of Roses (1969), Intentions of Murder (1964) and Profound Desires of the Gods (1968).
What is the highest-rated movie like Sing a Song of Sex?
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985), rated 7.8/10 by 383 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Sing a Song of Sex?
A Story of Yonosuke (2013) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Japanese movies like Sing a Song of Sex?
Yes: Funeral Parade of Roses (1969), Intentions of Murder (1964) and Profound Desires of the Gods (1968).
How are movies similar to Sing a Song of Sex chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Sing a Song of Sex, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.