Movies Like The Oil-Hell Murder

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

Heat Wave

1991·1h 46m·★ 6.6·Hideo Gosha

2 shared crewBoth star Kanako Higuchi & Tsuyoshi UjikiDir. Hideo Gosha

Tenchu!

1969·2h 20m·★ 7.4·Hideo Gosha

2 shared crewDir. Hideo GoshaDP: Fujio Morita

Gate of Flesh

1988·1h 59m·★ 6.2·Hideo Gosha

2 shared crewDir. Hideo GoshaDP: Fujio Morita

Death Shadows

1986·1h 55m·★ 6.1·Hideo Gosha

2 shared crewDir. Hideo GoshaDP: Fujio Morita

Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather

1982·2h 26m·★ 6.9·Hideo Gosha

2 shared crewDir. Hideo GoshaDP: Fujio Morita

The Geisha

1983·2h 24m·★ 6.9·Hideo Gosha

2 shared crewDir. Hideo GoshaDP: Fujio Morita

Yakuza Ladies

1986·2h·★ 6.3·Hideo Gosha

2 shared crewDir. Hideo GoshaDP: Fujio Morita

Ronin-gai

1990·1h 57m·★ 6.6·Kazuo Kuroki

3 shared cast incl. Kanako Higuchi & Renji Ishibashi

Zatoichi

2003·1h 56m·★ 7.4·Takeshi Kitano

TMDB recommendsStarring Ittoku Kishibe

The Insect Woman

1963·2h 3m·★ 7.4·Shōhei Imamura

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Pigs and Battleships

1961·1h 48m·★ 7.4·Shōhei Imamura

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Seven Samurai

1954·3h 27m·★ 8.6·Akira Kurosawa

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Letter from the Mountain

2002·2h 8m·★ 7.2·Takashi Koizumi

Both star Kanako Higuchi & Hisashi Igawa

Breaking the Waves

1996·2h 39m·★ 7.8·Lars von Trier

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Eyes Wide Shut

1999·2h 40m·★ 7.5·Stanley Kubrick

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Distant Lights

2003·1h 45m·★ 7.5·Hans-Christian Schmid

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Leaving Las Vegas

1995·1h 51m·★ 7.5·Mike Figgis

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The Edukators

2004·2h 7m·★ 7.4·Hans Weingartner

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Irreversible

2002·1h 33m·★ 7.3·Gaspar Noé

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Mifune

1999·1h 38m·★ 7.1·Søren Kragh-Jacobsen

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