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Film · 10 connectionsThe four principals in a love affair collide when jealousy, blackmail and suicide enter the picture.
Directed byYasuzō Masumura
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1961 · 91 min · Drama · Mystery · Romance
Tied to a mountain between her brutalizing spouse and her secret lover, disaster strikes; the authorities accuse her of murder and prompt a confession.
Shared cast
1957 · 98 min · Drama
Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through school. Under such circumstances, Ichiro meets Wakako, the daughter of a wealthy man, and they fall in love with each other, but they are opposed by those around them because of their different social status.
Strong story similarity
1969 · 105 min · Drama
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.
Strong story similarity
1966 · 99 min · Drama
Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering rapist.
Similar atmosphere
1962 · 154 min · Drama
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.
Strong story similarity
1974 · 85 min · Drama · Romance
A footballing law student tutors an undergraduate, developing into a romance that soon enough goes awry.
Similar atmosphere
1979 · 119 min · Drama
An ethical Baltimore defense lawyer disgusted with rampant legal corruption is forced to defend a judge he despises in a rape trial under the threat of being disbarred.
Genre overlap
1969 · 110 min · Drama · Romance
Faced with a broken marriage, a woman decides to try to rekindle an incestuous relationship with her younger sister, who is married to a wealthy older man.
Strong story similarity
1984 · 67 min · Drama
A woman frustrated by her fiancé's reluctance for premarital sex sends her on a round of boozing and remembrances of bad sexual encounters. Meanwhile someone is drugging young men late at night and doing unspeakable things to them.
Strong story similarity
1987 · 60 min · Drama
A woman shares the power of self-love with her female friend. Complications ensue with her male partner. Can these two women reconnect?
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