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10 Best Movies Like Tokyo Noir

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

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#1
Tokyo Family

Tokyo Family

2013★ 7.3

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

An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved....

#2
Female Yakuza Tale

Female Yakuza Tale

1973★ 6.2

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

Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle drugs into Japan by hiding it in their vaginas. She is tortured, and manages to escape, ...

#3
Café Lumière

Café Lumière

2004★ 6.7

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

In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is a writer investigating the life of a modernist composer of the 1930s. She is pregna...

#4
Street of Shame

Street of Shame

1956★ 7.7

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

Follows five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation debates the passage of an anti-prostitution law....

#5
Angel Guts: Red Classroom

Angel Guts: Red Classroom

1979★ 6.4

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

When Muraki, a porn magazine editor, watches a blue film depicting a gang rape in a school, he becomes obsessed with the lead actress. Quite by chance, whilst looking to reserve a ...

#6
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41

1972★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Tokyo Noir 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....

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