Movies Like A Tonkatsu Diner (2004)

A Tonkatsu Diner is a 2004 film from Masayoshi Nogami with a MovieMagicScore of 2.0/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with The Ballad of Narayama and Empire of Passion.

The Ballad of Narayama

1983

In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. But first she must make sure that her eldest son Tatsuhei finds a wife.

7.5

MagicScore

Empire of Passion

1978

In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a much younger lover and the two conspire to murder him.

6.9

MagicScore

Guilty of Romance

2011

In a Tokyo love hotel district, a woman is found dead in a derelict apartment. As police investigate, a romance novelist's wife lives a life that seems simply a daily repetition without romance. To break away from the loveless monotony, she follows her desires and becomes a nude model enacting sex in front of a camera. Soon, she meets a mentor and begins selling her body to strangers, while at home, she hides behind the façade that she's still the doting wife she's supposed to be.

6.9

MagicScore

Imprint

2006

An American journalist travels through 19th-century Japan to find the prostitute he fell in love with but instead learns of the physical and existential horror that befell her after he left.

6.8

MagicScore

Antiporno

2017

Young artist Kyoko wreaks havoc on everyone that she encounters when Japan's oldest major movie studio asks a batch of venerable filmmakers to revive its high-brow soft-core Roman Porno series.

6.7

MagicScore

Go, Go Second Time Virgin

1969

Go, Go, Second Time Virgin is the story of two damned and abused teenagers who meet and fall in mutant love on a Tokyo rooftop. Their only hope is to cement their love with an escape into oblivion.

6.6

MagicScore

Zero Woman R

2007

A mysterious female spy is recruited to infiltrate the Japanese underworld and gather evidence for a clandestine secretive branch of the Tokyo Police Department.

6.6

MagicScore

Love Hotel

1985

A tale of two broken souls. A call-girl named Yumi, “night-blooming flower,” and Tetsuro, a married man with a debt to the yakuza, have a violent rendezvous in a cheap love hotel. Years later, haunted by the memory of that night, they reconnect and begin a strange love affair. Determined to finish what they started, they return to the scene of their first macabre passion. With a taste for wicked absurdity while coursing with undercurrents of operatic emotion, at times verging on a musical, Love Hotel is moved by the irrational forces that attract two bodies together.

6.5

MagicScore

Siren XXX: Magical Pleasure

2010

In a rural port town, Kenji Ishikawa runs a barber shop together with his new wife, who speaks very little and has mysterious eyes to match her amorous presence. Running the shop isn’t easy as hardly any customers come… One evening, a man comes to the shop, as if lured by the faint hum of the wife. As the man takes a seat, Kenji exits his shop. The wife then gently fingers the man’s neck…

6.5

MagicScore

#10

The Transgressor

1974

18 years after the mysterious death of her mother, Maya takes religious vows to find out what terrible things happened to her mother inside the Sacred Heart Convent. As soon as the door closes to the nunnery, the nuns start torturing her. She also has to deal with a lecherous archbishops and a lesbian mother superior.

6.4

MagicScore

#11

Man, Woman & the Wall

2006

When Ryo, a young magazine reporter, moves into a new apartment he is greeted by the passionate sounds of his astonishingly beautiful neighbor Satsuki. Realizing the wall dividing their apartments is paper thin, the captivated journalist begins to eavesdrop on every detail of the girl next door's life: her conversations, her bubble baths... her breathless cries.

6.4

MagicScore

#12

Flower & Snake II

2005

The beautiful Shizuko and her husband Toyama Takayoshi have a loving relationship, But Takayoshi is getting older and isn't always able to perform. His primary source of gratification involves observing his wife in sadomasochistic scenarios so he commissions a painter, skilled in the arts of bondage to bring these fantasies to life. Soon, Shiziko becomes a willing and submissive participant in fulfilling the S&M fantasies of not only her husband but a slew of rich lecherous men.

6.3

MagicScore

#13

Sex and Fury

1973

Sex & Fury chronicles Ocho's exploits as she searches for her father's killers, each identified by unique tattoos on their backs (a deer, a boar, and a butterfly). Along the way, she also crosses paths with Shonusuke, a radical set on murdering prominent politician Kurokawa and Christina, an American spy posing as a gambler.

6.2

MagicScore

#14

Violated Angels

1967

Based on the factual case of a young man who broke into a nurses' home in Chicago, mutilating and killing several of the inmates, Wakamatsu's film is a precise, sad delineation of a particular aspect of masculine sexual consciousness.

6.1

MagicScore

#15

Angel Guts: Red Vertigo

1988

Nami is a nurse and the unwilling object of her patients' lust. When she is hit by a car whilst fleeing from the home of her unfaithful boyfriend, the driver of the car takes her as a sexual prisoner.

6.1

MagicScore

#16

High School Teacher: Maturing

1985

A female highschool teacher must deal with sexual harrassment from her students and being trapped in a love triangle with two men, neither of whom has any interest in marrying her.

6.1

MagicScore

#17

Flower & Snake: Zero

2014

Misaki Amemiya is an assistant inspector for the Metropolitan Police Department's Community Safety Bureau who becomes ensnared in a trap while investigating a mysterious illegal video website called "Babylon". Soon, she's bound and tortured along with Shizuko and an oversexed housewife named Ruri.

6.0

MagicScore

#18

Sexual Drive

2021

Designer Enatsu worries about his sexless life. Office worker Akane is getting ready to return to work while undergoing rehab at home for panic attacks. Elite advertising agent Ikeyama wants to end his relationship with his lover. A shabby man named Kurita appears before all three with a secret.

6.0

MagicScore

#19

Tokyo Decadence

1992

A submissive hooker goes about her trade, suffering abuse at the hands of Japanese salarymen and Yakuza types. She's unhappy about her work, and is apparently trying to find some sort of appeasement for the fact that her lover has married.

5.9

MagicScore

#20

Dawn of the Felines

2017

A story of three escort girls living in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. They work at the same escort service while feeling lonely in their urban lives.

5.8

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like A Tonkatsu Diner?

The top films similar to A Tonkatsu Diner by MovieMagicScore are The Ballad of Narayama (7.5), Empire of Passion (6.9), Guilty of Romance (6.9). Each shares themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is A Tonkatsu Diner worth watching?

A Tonkatsu Diner holds a MovieMagicScore of 2.0/10 from 1 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is A Tonkatsu Diner?

A Tonkatsu Diner (2004) is a film directed by Masayoshi Nogami, starring Mai Sangatsu, Kōju Ran, Kanae Mizuhara.

Where can I find more recommendations like A Tonkatsu Diner?

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About movies like A Tonkatsu Diner

This ranked list pairs A Tonkatsu Diner (2004) with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Mai Sangatsu take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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