Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 14, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Japanese Torture

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

🏆

Expert Review & Ratings

See our full critical analysis and audience score for Japanese Torture.

View Review →
Advertisement
#1
Flower & Snake: Zero

Flower & Snake: Zero

2014★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Japanese Torture for fans of Drama & Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Misaki Amemiya is an assistant inspector for the Metropolitan Police Department's Community Safety Bureau who becomes ensnared in a trap while investigating a mysterious illegal vi...

#2
Violated Angels

Violated Angels

1967★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Japanese Torture for fans of Drama & Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Based on the factual case of 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 ...

#3
The Transgressor

The Transgressor

1974★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Japanese Torture for fans of Drama & Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

18 years after the mysterious death of her mother, Maya takes religious vows to find out what terrible things happened to her mother inside the Sacred Heart Convent. As soon as the...

#4
Star of David: Beauty Hunting

Star of David: Beauty Hunting

1979★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Japanese Torture for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

The life of Tatsuya, a young man of proper yet mysterious descent, whose outward respectability hides his urges for rape and torture....

#5
Suburbia

Suburbia

1984★ 6.7

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

When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each other like...

#6
Hellion

Hellion

2014★ 5.9

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

When motocross and heavy metal obsessed, 13-year-old Jacob's delinquent behavior forces CPS to place his little brother Wes with his aunt, Jacob and his emotionally absent father m...

Advertisement