Movies like Floating Clouds
If Floating Clouds's mix of bathing, forbidden love and post war japan stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Floating Clouds's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Seven Samurai
1954 · Directed by Akira Kurosawa · 207 min8.5
Why you'll like itWith Daisuke Katō · Shares: forbidden love · Also a Japanese drama · From the same decade (1950s)
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and…
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Endless Love
2014 · Directed by Shana Feste · 104 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: forbidden love · Also drama and romance
A privileged girl and a charismatic boy's instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart.
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
2022 · Directed by Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre · 126 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: forbidden love · Also drama and romance
After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her husband's consent, she seeks out other means of fulfilling her needs.
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The Twilight Samurai
2002 · Directed by Yoji Yamada · 129 min7.8
Why you'll like itAlso a Japanese drama
Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile mother.
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In the Realm of the Senses
1976 · Directed by Nagisa Ōshima · 102 min6.6
Why you'll like itAlso a Japanese drama
A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship.
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Gabriel's Inferno: Part III
2020 · Directed by Tosca Musk · 102 min8.3
Why you'll like itAlso romance and drama
The final part of the film adaption of the erotic romance novel Gabriel's Inferno written by an anonymous Canadian author under the pen name Sylvain Reynard.