Movies like Double Suicide

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   Tattoo

   Strong story similarity

   1982 · 107 min · Crime · Drama · Romance

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   An ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman when he was young, plans to hold hostage a local bank.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared production studio: Art Theatre Guild

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   The Ambitious

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   1970 · 120 min · Action · Adventure · Drama

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   The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was considered an outlaw by his own clan, hunted by his government, and was despised by supporters of the Shogun as well as the Loyalists for desiring the opening of Japan to the West in order to learn its technology, in the hopes of one day defeating the West with a modern army and navy.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared theme: jidaigeki
   • a closely matched era

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   An Osaka Story

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   1957 · 97 min · Comedy · Drama

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   A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji's final project; he died before completing it and directing duties turned over to Yoshimura Kozaburo.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared themes: edo period and jidaigeki

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   Incident at Blood Pass

   Strong story similarity

   1970 · 118 min · Action · Drama

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   In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near the pass he stops at an inn where a collection of characters gather, including a gang set on stealing shogunate gold that's soon to come over the pass. When the Ronin's assignment becomes clear, to help the gang, he's ordered to kill the inn's residents, including a woman he's rescued from an abusive husband. He's reluctant to murder innocent people; then he learns that the gold shipment is a trap and he's part of a double cross. How he sorts through these divided loyalties tests of his samurai honor, and perhaps of his love for a woman.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared themes: edo period and jidaigeki
   • a closely matched era

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   Genkuro Yoshitsune

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   1962 · 90 min · Drama · History

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   An exciting historical drama that dynamically depicts the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune from the period of his stay on Mount Kurama to his reconciliation with his brother Yoritomo.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared theme: jidaigeki

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   Life of a Country Doctor

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   1960 · 116 min · Drama

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   A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and novel as removing a patient's kidney for the first time in Japan. Unfortunately for him, however, his wife's addiction to gambling is of such a magnitude that he is down to selling his underwear to make money. The image sticks and he becomes known as the 'underwear doctor.' On the other hand, his successful surgery's patient is so grateful he himself wants to become a physician.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared themes: edo period and jidaigeki
   • substantial genre overlap

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   Taikoki - The Saga of Hideyoshi

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   1958 · 102 min · Drama · History

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   From birth Hideyoshi was a restless, defiant spirit--a child of the poorest of the poor. Cast out of his peasant cottage, he would live by his wits, driven by his burning ambition to become a samurai and to find a warlord worth pledging his sword to. This is the story of his rise, and the thunderous battle he pinned his hopes on. The challenge that had already ruined and bloodied the armies of higher-ranking samurai than Hiyoshi. The battle that brought him rank, fame and fortune and transformed him into Hashiba Hideyoshi, right-hand man to the ruthless Lord Oda Nobunaga, and would drive him on to conquer Japan.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared theme: jidaigeki

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   The Horse Boy

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   1957 · 95 min · Drama

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   A humble page fathers a child by the daughter of a clan official and is banished. Years later, the child, now a stable boy, is reunited with his father, but feudal codes threaten their happiness. Uchida’s poignant masterpiece condemns the inflexible class system and launches an indictment of values that favor symbolic objects over human life. The film’s focus is on character rather than swordplay, and charged performances - especially child actor Motoharu Ueki - add to the emotional power.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • substantial genre overlap
   • shared theme: jidaigeki

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   Duel in the Storm

   Strong story similarity

   1968 · 93 min · Action · Crime · Drama

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   It is the Taisho era in Japan. A man has quit the Yakuza after five years and returned to Shikoku in order to begin his life anew as a ferryman. His boss, however, became ill and the boat is taken due to unpaid debts to the local thugs. His new life has not begun well and he is determined to rebuild the shattered business. The Yakuza, however, have added the ferry business to the rest of their portfolio of local concerns.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • a closely matched era

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    Shogun's Holiday

    Strong story similarity

    1958 · 92 min · Drama · History

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    During the reign of Hidetada, the second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, the advisor Okubo Hikozaemon (Ganjiro Nakamura) entrusts the young Takechiyo (Hiroshi Kawaguchi) to the fishmonger Isshin Tasuke (Kazuo Hasegawa) to help him understand the world. Tasuke, who does not know that Takechiyo is the shogun's heir, trains him harshly. Tasuke's wife Naka (Michiko Ai) is concerned about his harsh teaching style, but Takechiyo gains strength day by day and adapts to his new life. Soon, Takechiyo begins secretly talking about love with a city girl named Otoyo (Hitomi Nozoe), but...

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    • strong story and style similarity
    • shared theme: jidaigeki

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