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10 Best Movies Like The Geisha

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

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#1
Sisters of the Gion

Sisters of the Gion

1936★ 7.1

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

A geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto feels obliged to help her lover when he asks to stay with her after going bankrupt and leaving his wife. However, her younger sister opposes ...

#2
It Feels So Good

It Feels So Good

2019★ 6.6

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

When it rains it pours. Kenji divorced his wife, lost his job and his old squeeze Naoko is getting married back home in the north of Japan, specifically in Akita. He returns there ...

#3
The History of Love

The History of Love

2016★ 6.4

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

The story of a long-lost book that mysteriously reappears and connects an old man searching for his son with a girl seeking a cure for her mother's loneliness....

#4
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41

1972★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Geisha for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobedient prisoners....

#5
The Barbarian and the Geisha

The Barbarian and the Geisha

1958★ 6.0

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

Townsend Harris is sent by President Pierce to Japan to serve as the first U.S. Consul-General to that country. Harris discovers enormous hostility to foreigners, as well as the lo...

#6
Mumon: The Land of Stealth

Mumon: The Land of Stealth

2017★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Geisha for fans of Romance & War. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Raised suckling poison arrows among the sparring Iga ninja factions, Mumon is a carefree 16th-century mercenary. When the ninja council makes a power play to defeat the young Nobuk...

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