Movies Like Cruel Story of Youth

Ranked by shared directors, cast, themes, genre, and era — not just generic recommendations.

The Sun's Burial

1960·1h 28m·★ 6.9·Nagisa Ōshima

3 shared cast incl. Fumio Watanabe & Yūsuke Kawazu2 shared crewThemes: post war japan, japanese new wave

Night and Fog in Japan

1960·1h 43m·★ 6.8·Nagisa Ōshima

3 shared cast incl. Miyuki Kuwano & Fumio Watanabe2 shared crewDir. Nagisa Ōshima

Good-for-Nothing

1960·1h 28m·★ 6.8·Yoshishige Yoshida

3 shared cast incl. Yūsuke Kawazu & Yosuke HayashiDrama & Crime

A Clockwork Orange

1971·2h 17m·★ 8.2·Stanley Kubrick

Themes: society, juvenile delinquentTMDB recommends

Pleasures of the Flesh

1965·1h 31m·★ 6.8·Nagisa Ōshima

Both star Kei Satō & Fumio WatanabeDir. Nagisa ŌshimaDrama & Crime

Under the Open Sky

2021·2h 6m·★ 7.2·Miwa Nishikawa

Themes: society, yakuzaFans also likedCrime & Drama

Pale Flower

1964·1h 36m·★ 7.7·Masahiro Shinoda

Themes: japanese new wave, yakuzaFans also likedCrime & Romance

A Family

2021·2h 16m·★ 7.1·Michihito Fujii

Themes: society, yakuzaFans also likedCrime & Drama

Death by Hanging

1968·1h 58m·★ 7.5·Nagisa Ōshima

Both star Kei Satō & Fumio WatanabeDir. Nagisa Ōshima

Street of Love and Hope

1959·1h 2m·★ 7.1·Nagisa Ōshima

Both star Fumio Watanabe & Yuki TominagaDir. Nagisa Ōshima

Three Resurrected Drunkards

1968·1h 20m·★ 6.4·Nagisa Ōshima

Both star Kei Satō & Fumio WatanabeDir. Nagisa Ōshima

Diary of a Shinjuku Thief

1969·1h 36m·★ 6.1·Nagisa Ōshima

Both star Fumio Watanabe & Kei SatōDir. Nagisa Ōshima

Tokyo Drifter

1966·1h 23m·★ 7.1·Seijun Suzuki

Themes: japanese new wave, yakuzaFans also liked

Breaking the Waves

1996·2h 39m·★ 7.8·Lars von Trier

TMDB recommendsDrama & Romance

The Trial

1962·1h 59m·★ 7.6·Orson Welles

TMDB recommendsCrime & Drama

The Outsiders

1983·1h 31m·★ 7.0·Francis Ford Coppola

TMDB recommendsCrime & Drama

Violette Nozière

1978·2h 4m·★ 7.1·Claude Chabrol

TMDB recommendsCrime & Drama

The Inheritance

1962·1h 48m·★ 7.4·Masaki Kobayashi

DP: Takashi KawamataStarring Yūsuke Kawazu

Fallen Angel

1945·1h 38m·★ 7.0·Otto Preminger

Fans also likedCrime & Drama & Romance

The Wild One

1953·1h 19m·★ 6.7·László Benedek

Fans also likedDrama & Crime & Romance

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