Movies like Ugetsu
If Ugetsu's mix of japan, samurai and greed stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Ugetsu's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Scrooge
1951 · Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst · 86 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: greed, black and white, ghost · Also fantasy and drama · From the same decade (1950s)
Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman, until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a…
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High and Low
1963 · Directed by Akira Kurosawa · 142 min8.4
Why you'll like itShares: black and white · Also 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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Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms
2018 · Directed by Mari Okada · 115 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: tragedy · Also a Japanese drama
Fleeing the war, the immortal Maquia, graced with eternal youth, finds a baby abandoned in the forest and decides to raise it as her own child, sparking a moving story between a mortal and a being who does not age.
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The Boy and the Beast
2015 · Directed by Mamoru Hosoda · 119 min7.9
Why you'll like itShares: japan · Also a Japanese drama
Kyuta, a boy living in Shibuya, and Kumatetsu, a lonesome beast from Jutengai, an imaginary world. One day, Kyuta forays into the imaginary world and, as he's looking for his way back, meets Kumatetsu who becomes his…
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FX's A Christmas Carol
2019 · Directed by Nick Murphy · 173 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: ghost · Also drama and fantasy
London, 1843. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old man, despises the Christmas holiday. Over the course of Christmas Eve night he is visited by three ghosts to show him his past, present and future.
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Bleach the Movie: Fade to Black
2008 · Directed by Noriyuki Abe · 94 min7.1
Why you'll like itAlso a Japanese fantasy film
A strange disturbance in the World of the Living sends Ichigo and Kon to the Soul Society, where the Seireitei has been devastated by an explosion of reishi and Rukia is missing.