
10 Best Movies Like Sansho the Bailiff
If you loved Sansho the Bailiff, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Ugetsu
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sansho the Bailiff for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage's warning against seeking to p...

The Life of Oharu
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sansho the Bailiff for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In 17th century Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall....

Lumière & Company
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sansho the Bailiff for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. Th...

Close to Eden
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sansho the Bailiff for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A farmer and his wife live in a rural part of Inner Mongolia with their three children. Chinese population control policies prevent them from having any more. The farmer sets out f...

Flowing
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sansho the Bailiff for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade in the late days of Geisha. Bu...

Tattooed Life
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sansho the Bailiff for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brother....