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10 Best Movies Like Young Wife: Modest Indecency

If you loved Young Wife: Modest Indecency, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
One Million Yen Girl

One Million Yen Girl

2008★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Young Wife: Modest Indecency for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A 21-year-old girl is released from prison, only to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her and family conflicts. She decides to save one million yen, move to where no one know...

#2
Tokyo Decadence

Tokyo Decadence

1992★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Young Wife: Modest Indecency for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A submissive hooker goes about her trade, suffering abuse at the hands of Japanese salarymen and Yakuza types. She's unhappy about her work, and is apparently trying to find some s...

#3
Intentions of Murder

Intentions of Murder

1964★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Young Wife: Modest Indecency for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect of a better life....

#4
Pastoral: To Die in the Country

Pastoral: To Die in the Country

1974★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Young Wife: Modest Indecency for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan....

#5
Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Young Wife: Modest Indecency for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site ...

#6
Ritual

Ritual

2000★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Young Wife: Modest Indecency for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A disillusioned filmmaker has an encounter with a young woman who has a ritual of repeating "Tomorrow is my birthday" everyday. He tries to communicate with her through his video c...

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