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10 Best Movies Like Kakegurui Stage

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

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#1
Kokuho

Kokuho

2025★ 7.9

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

Nagasaki, 1964: Following the death of his yakuza father, 15-year-old Kikuo is taken under the wing of a famous kabuki actor. Alongside Shunsuke, the actor’s only son, he decides t...

#2
Avanti!

Avanti!

1972★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Kakegurui Stage for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A successful businessman travels to Italy to arrange for the return of his tycoon father's body, only to learn that dear old dad died with his longtime mistress....

#3
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum

The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum

1939★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Kakegurui Stage for fans of Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In late 19th-century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that the praise he receives is only due...

#4
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

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

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of gettin...

#5
Samurai Assassin

Samurai Assassin

1965★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Kakegurui Stage for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of assassinating Naosuke Ii of Hikone, ...

#6
Unbroken

Unbroken

2014★ 7.4

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

A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II....

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