Movies like Devoted Cookbook
If Devoted Cookbook's mix of jidaigeki, edo period and kasei culture stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Devoted Cookbook's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Harakiri
1962 · Directed by Masaki Kobayashi · 135 min8.5
Why you'll like itShares: jidaigeki, edo period
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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Yojimbo
1961 · Directed by Akira Kurosawa · 110 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: jidaigeki, edo period
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade.
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Ran
1985 · Directed by Akira Kurosawa · 160 min8.0
Why you'll like itWith Mieko Harada · Shares: jidaigeki
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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13 Assassins
2010 · Directed by Takashi Miike · 141 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: jidaigeki, edo period · From the same decade (2010s)
A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country…
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One Piece: Adventure of Nebulandia
2015 · Directed by Konosuke Uda · 106 min7.7
Why you'll like itAlso a Japanese tv movie · From the same decade (2010s)
The Foxy Pirates challenge Luffy’s crew in the New World, but the fun and games go belly-up when the Navy’s most brilliant tactician steps in.
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Ocean Waves
1993 · Directed by Tomomi Mochizuki · 72 min6.4
Why you'll like itAlso a Japanese tv movie
At Kichijōji Station, Tokyo, Taku Morisaki glimpses a familiar woman on the platform opposite boarding a train. Later, her photo falls from a shelf as he exits his apartment before flying to Kōchi Prefecture.