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10 Best Movies Like Joyous Moments

If you loved Joyous Moments, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Angel Guts: Red Classroom

Angel Guts: Red Classroom

1979★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Joyous Moments for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When Muraki, a porn magazine editor, watches a blue film depicting a gang rape in a school, he becomes obsessed with the lead actress. Quite by chance, whilst looking to reserve a ...

#2
The Moment You Fall in Love

The Moment You Fall in Love

2016★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Joyous Moments for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Following Natsuki Enomoto's confession rehearsals with Yuu Setoguchi, their younger siblings Kotarou and Hina struggle to confess their own love. Despite a disastrous first meeting...

#3
Call Boy

Call Boy

2018★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Joyous Moments for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Ryo Morinaka is a university student and works part-time at a bar. He is bored with his daily life and exists in a state of torpor. One day, his friend Shinya Tajima brings the own...

#4
My Rainy Days

My Rainy Days

2009★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Joyous Moments for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Because of her past, 17-year-old Rio lives her days filling the emptiness in her heart with money—until one day, she meets a university professor named Kouki and falls in love....

#5
Street of Shame

Street of Shame

1956★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Joyous Moments for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Follows five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation debates the passage of an anti-prostitution law....

#6
Sakuran

Sakuran

2006★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Joyous Moments for fans of History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Kiyoha rises from the lowly courtesan ranks to the high class position of Oiran in the steamy red-light district of Yoshiwara. She is determined to stand on her own two feet and li...

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