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10 Best Movies Like Kurosawa: The Last Emperor

If you loved Kurosawa: The Last Emperor, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Monkey Business

Monkey Business

1952★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Kurosawa: The Last Emperor for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours th...

#2
Sovereign

Sovereign

2025★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Kurosawa: The Last Emperor for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Struggling single father Jerry indoctrinates his son Joe into the sovereign citizen movement, teaching him that laws are mere illusions and freedom is something you take. But, as J...

#3
Two Evil Eyes

Two Evil Eyes

1990★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Kurosawa: The Last Emperor for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A duo of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations about a greedy wife's attempt to embezzle her dying husband's fortune, and a sleazy reporter's adoption of a strange black cat....

#4
Funny Farm

Funny Farm

1988★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Kurosawa: The Last Emperor for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Sportswriter Andy Farmer moves with his schoolteacher wife Elizabeth to the country in order to write a novel in relative seclusion. Of course, seclusion is the last thing the Farm...

#5
Hallow Road

Hallow Road

2025★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Kurosawa: The Last Emperor for fans of Mystery. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Two parents enter a race against time when they receive a distressing late-night phone call from their daughter after she caused a tragic car accident....

#6
Fantozzi in Heaven

Fantozzi in Heaven

1993★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Kurosawa: The Last Emperor for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

One by one, with a sweet but inexorable rate, Ugo's colleagues, go to a better life. When Ugo is attending at one of the innumerable funerals, he and the priest remain involved in ...