Movies like The Broken Commandment
If The Broken Commandment's mix of japan, identity crisis and teacher stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what The Broken Commandment's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Face of Another
1966 · Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara · 122 min7.8
Why you'll like itShares: japan, identity crisis · Also a Japanese drama
A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his new doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality and causing him to question his identity.
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Confessions
2010 · Directed by Tetsuya Nakashima · 107 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: japan, teacher · Also a Japanese drama
Devastated at the death of her four-year-old daughter, a grieving middle school teacher is horrified to discover that her students aren't as innocent as she thinks.
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Harakiri
1962 · Directed by Masaki Kobayashi · 135 min8.5
Why you'll like itShares: japan · Also a Japanese drama
Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku—and a worthy second to deliver the coup de grâce…
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Samurai Rebellion
1967 · Directed by Masaki Kobayashi · 121 min8.3
Why you'll like itShares: period drama · Also a Japanese drama
The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped by the lord. Her husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision, or risk death to rescue her.
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Tokyo Story
1953 · Directed by Yasujirō Ozu · 137 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: teacher · Also a Japanese drama
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo.
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Ran
1985 · Directed by Akira Kurosawa · 160 min8.0
Why you'll like itShares: period drama · Also a Japanese drama
Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.
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Throne of Blood
1957 · Directed by Akira Kurosawa · 108 min7.9
Why you'll like itShares: japan · Also a Japanese drama
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses…
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From Up on Poppy Hill
2011 · Directed by Goro Miyazaki · 91 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: period drama · Also a Japanese drama
Yokohama, 1963. Japan is picking itself up from the devastation of World War II and preparing to host the 1964 Olympics—and the mood is one of both optimism and conflict as the young generation struggles to throw off…
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Suffragette
2015 · Directed by Sarah Gavron · 106 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: period drama · Also drama and history
Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State.
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Silence
2016 · Directed by Martin Scorsese · 161 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: japan · Also drama and history
In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.
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High and Low
1963 · Directed by Akira Kurosawa · 142 min8.4
Why you'll like itAlso a Japanese drama
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.
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I Swear
2025 · Directed by Kirk Jones · 121 min8.3
Why you'll like itAlso drama and history · From the same decade (2020s)
Diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome at 15, John Davidson navigates his way against the odds through troubled teenage years and into adulthood, finding inspiration in the kindness of others to discover his true purpose in…