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10 Best Movies Like Akitsu Hot Springs

If you loved Akitsu Hot Springs, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Floating Clouds

Floating Clouds

1955★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Akitsu Hot Springs for fans of Romance & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she t...

#2
Drunken Angel

Drunken Angel

1948★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Akitsu Hot Springs for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with tuberculosis, forging an uneasy bond that’s tested when the gangster’s ruthless former bos...

#3
Maria's Lovers

Maria's Lovers

1984★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Akitsu Hot Springs for fans of Romance & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A World War II prisoner returns home to his childhood sweetheart. However, back home, he discovers that he has to compete to win her love....

#4
Even If This Love Disappears from the World Tonight

Even If This Love Disappears from the World Tonight

2022★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Akitsu Hot Springs for fans of Romance & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A high school girl wakes up each day with no memory of the day before. When she agrees to date a shy classmate, Toru, he begins to fall for her—despite her rule against falling in ...

#5
Gabriel's Inferno: Part III

Gabriel's Inferno: Part III

2020★ 8.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Akitsu Hot Springs for fans of Romance & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The final part of the film adaption of the erotic romance novel Gabriel's Inferno written by an anonymous Canadian author under the pen name Sylvain Reynard....

#6
Norwegian Wood

Norwegian Wood

2010★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Akitsu Hot Springs for fans of Romance & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Toru recalls his life in the 1960s, when his friend Kizuki killed himself and he grew close to Naoko, Kizuki's girlfriend, and another woman, the outgoing, lively Midori....

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