Movies Similar to The General and His Empire of Joy

Supesharu ressun: Hentai sei-kyôiku(1990)

Lesbian-themed tale of a schoolgirl who entices her gullible (not to mention slightly warped) female teacher by positing that they are predestined to dance together on the day the world ends.

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Memoirs of a Geisha(2005)

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

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Emmanuelle 2000: Emmanuelle Pie(2003)

Brazen beauty Emmanuelle embarks on more saucy sci-fi antics. A young man uses a mind-control power for his own sexual needs. Miss Emmanuelle shows up to give him more than a slap on the wrist.

5.6

Blue Rain Osaka(1983)

A woman who runs a bar with her older sister has her life disrupted when she has a chance meeting with an old lover.

4.3

A Kiss of My Color(2013)

Takashi works at a gay bar in Shinjuku but his boyfriend Yuichi is often away working on a cargo ship. Everything changes when new guy Norifumi Aida moves next door...

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Beautiful Blooming(2003)

The third year of Keio. Picked up by Takamori Saigo, Hanjiro pledges his loyalty to him and joins an assassination group led by Kidaro. One day, Hanjiro was taken aback by a man he met on the street, and since then, the man's presence has never left his mind.

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Kimini horeteru(2002)

Shogo is a street musician who doesn't sell well. However, he dreams of one day making a major debut, and continues to sing around town today while earning money through part-time appearances in gay AVs. Shogo has a girlfriend named Yusuke who he lives with, and Yusuke supports Shogo's dreams. One day, Shogo met Kohei for the first time in a while at a class reunion. During high school, Shogo and Kohei, who had the goal of becoming a top-class architect, often talked about their dreams. The two were best friends, but in reality, Shogo was secretly in love with Kohei. After reuniting with Kohei, Shogo regains the dream he had almost lost and is working hard to create music again. However, Shogo receives word that Kohei has fallen ill with acute leukemia.

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The Boy Who Continues to Shine: Naked Dance, Naked Dance(1990)

One day, a handsome young man with amnesia comes to visit his mother at a gay bar. He gives him the name Maya and lets him help out at the store, but his memory never returns. He is good at playing guitar and singing, so maybe he was a musician? That's what he predicts...

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Aniki to ore(2003)

Noboru and Takashi meet in prison. Shocked by his lover's betrayal, Akira becomes addicted to hunting for men in Hattenba, and is eventually imprisoned for drugs. Noboru, who was a sexual outlet for prisoners in prison, was helped by Takashi, a member of the Ogasawara gang of the chivalry organization. Takashi persuaded Noboru to take care of himself, and as a result of his efforts, Noboru was able to rehabilitate himself and come to respect Takashi as an older brother. One day, Takashi's older brother, Kanzaki, comes to visit and informs him that he has been excommunicated from the group...

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Obscene Songs of Lost People(2001)

Ryohei, a gay gangster, dreams of becoming a full-fledged gangster, even though he is bossed around by his elder brother Yamabe. One day, Yamabe accidentally kills Morishima, a member of the gang's leadership. Thinking that he will be killed by the gang if he continues like this, Yamabe takes Ryohei with him to an abandoned house deep in the mountains to dispose of Morishima's body...

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Burning in the Twilight: A Hattenba Myth(1994)

Elderly people gather in a sauna dedicated to dandruff. Now they just spend their lives meaninglessly, but once upon a time they had a glorious sexual period. Meanwhile, an old man meets an extremely handsome boy in Hatten Park. The boy looks exactly like his old lover... A pink version of "Death in Venice."

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Promiscuous Wife's Sexuality: Pleasure Hunting(1992)

Fumio, who works at an ironworks, has an affair with Yoko, the wife of the president of the ironworks. The wife of Shimizu, a detective who investigates Yoko's background at the request of Nobuo, the president of the company, is also having an affair with his mistress, Kenichi. Nobuo becomes angry and impulsive. Upon receiving the report, a jealous Nobuo impulsively kills Shimizu and appears with an iron pipe in front of Fumio and Yoko, who are entangled in an ironworks. The story accelerates toward the end as the impulsive murderer brings together a man and a woman in a love-hate relationship at a villa in Izu....

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Gifu to mibōjin: Ichiya dake no himegoto(2021)

Teruki Miyamoto, a company employee, is at a love hotel with Rika Ohtsubo and Aina Mizuki. Miyamoto and Rika are having a double affair, and Rika invited Aina, a housewife friend of hers, because he wanted to try a threesome. Azumi Azuma is cleaning the bathroom of the love hotel when Rika returns to the room. When Rika comes to pick up her forgotten items, she is surprised to find that the employee is Azumi, whom she knows. Azumi says she has been working here since last year. Azumi said that the phone Rika forgot was left at the bed. When Rika was embarrassed that Azumi knew she had used the love hotel, Azumi simply said, "Confidentiality, you know". After finishing work that day, Azumi went shopping and then went home. She prepared dinner and had a quiet meal with her father-in-law Kazuo, who had retired early. Because of his age, Kazuo is taking more and more medication, and Azumi tries to cook meals that take care of her father-in-law's health.

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A Certain Seductive Summer(1979)

Saeko had an affair with Kuno, a photographer, but after the car they were driving in had an accident, she has withdrawn into a villa in Shonan. One day, she meets Shinji, who rides his motorcycle in front of her beach villa every day.

5.0

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.

5.9

That's When Things Changed(1993)

Moriyama leads and guides an organization that aims to create a global environment that can coexist with forest slime molds. During an activity in the park, other members spot members Nagayama and Itagaki making love to each other. Kijima could not forgive the fact that there was such a relationship in the same group, but when Moriyama learned of this, he told Nagayama that sodomy and living in search of slime mold were the same, and told Nagayama that he had a relationship with other members. He suggested that they have a relationship. Later, the body of Kijima, an opposition figure, was found...

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The Bridge on the River Kwai(1957)

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.

7.8

The Shortest Distance Is Round(2019)

Haruto is a freshman and a loner high school student until the arrival of the new teacher Aoyama. Aoyama cares for Haruto and starts to exchange letters with him, as something more grows inside both of them. But one night, an unexpected kiss ends their beautiful relationship. Three years later, Haruto has become a male prostitute in order to pay back his debts, when he reunites with Aoyama by chance.

5.8

Hinokio: Inter Galactic Love(2005)

Satoru, a wheelchair-bound elementary student, locks himself away from the outside world after his mother dies. His father designs a remote-controlled robot to go to school for him, allowing him to interact with people and do normal things.

6.8

Ijô seiyoku-ma(1977)

A husband who works as a janitor has a wife who is exhausted by his repeated demands for sex. Frustrated by her refusal he steals chloroform from work and drugs her to get what he wants. But he doesn’t stop there. He decides to try it on any woman he can find.

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