Top 10 awesome movies like Theater of Life: Youth, Lust and Spirit that you will enjoy watching
You just finished watching Theater of Life: Youth, Lust and Spirit and you can't get over how good this movie was. Now you want to watch more of such masterpieces. We have curated a list of similar movies which are created by the likes of Tai Katô, Muga Takewaki and Jirô Tamiya . Here goes the list -
- Chiisakobe
- The Unbalanced Wheel
- The Kii River
- The Loyal 47 Ronin
- Make-up
- Freezing Point
- Agent Shiranui
- Profound Desires of the Gods
- The Tale of Jiro
- Bizan
Chiisakobe
This movie, created by Tomotaka Tasaka, Kinnosuke Nakamura and Chiemi Eri, scores 7.1 on IMDb.
Genres - Drama
The Unbalanced Wheel
This movie, created by Minoru Shibuya, Yûnosuke Itô and Chikage Awashima, scores 6.1 on IMDb.
Genres - Drama
The Kii River
This movie, created by Noboru Nakamura, Yôko Tsukasa and Shima Iwashita, scores 6.9 on IMDb.
Genres - Drama
The Loyal 47 Ronin
Japan's timeless tale of honor and revenge, the Loyal 47 Ronin is the true story of group of samurai who became ronin (masterless samurai) after their Lord was forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide) for assaulting a court official, Kira Yoshinaka, who had insulted him. After patiently waiting and planning for over a year, they executed a daring assault on Lord Kira's estate, and exacted their revenge, in the full knowledge that they would themselves be forced to commit seppuku to atone for their crime.
This movie, created by Kunio Watanabe, Kazuo Hasegawa and Shintarô Katsu, scores 7.2 on IMDb.
Genres - Drama
Make-up
This movie, created by Kazuo Ikehiro, Keiko Matsuzaka and Kimiko Ikegami, scores 5.4 on IMDb.
Genres - Drama
Freezing Point
This movie, created by Satsuo Yamamoto, Ayako Wakao and Michiyo Ohkusu, scores 6.9 on IMDb.
Genres - Drama
Agent Shiranui
Before he portrayed the legendary blind swordsman, Zatoichi, Shintaro Katsu played Suganoichi, a blind court masseur with a dark side. An outcast since birth, he learned from a young age that the only way to get ahead was to take advantage of others. Now an expert con-artist with a heart of coal, Suganoichi is on a vile quest for power, and everyone else will suffer along the way!
This movie, created by Kazuo Mori, Shintarô Katsu and Tamao Nakamura, scores 7.1 on IMDb.
Genres - Drama
Profound Desires of the Gods
An engineer from Tokyo arrives on a drought-ridden tropical island to drill a well to power a nearby sugar mill. He meets the inbred Futori family, hated by the locals for breaking religious customs.
This movie, created by Shôhei Imamura, Rentarô Mikuni and Chôichirô Kawarasaki, scores 7.8 on IMDb.
Genres - Drama
The Tale of Jiro
This movie, created by Hiroshi Shimizu, Michiyo Kogure and Ichirô Ryûzaki, scores 6.8 on IMDb.
Genres - Drama
Bizan
After her mother is suddenly hospitalized because she has terminal cancer Sakiko returns to her home town Tokushima at the foot of Mt. Bizan. The relationship between mother and daughter isn't good but still she nurses her mother at her sickbed. She always thought her mother was a cold person until her mother gives her a box full of love letters from her father who she never knew and she starts to understand her mother better. Her mothers last wish is to see the Awa Odori festival for the last time before she dies.
This movie, created by Isshin Inudô, Nanako Matsushima and Takao Ohsawa, scores 6.6 on IMDb.
Genres - Drama