10 Best Movies Like The Balloon
If you loved The Balloon, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.
Intentions of Murder
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Balloon for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect of a better life....
Sakuran
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Balloon for fans of Drama. 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...
Lost in Translation
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Balloon for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be rea...
Café Lumière
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Balloon for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is a writer investigating the life of a modernist composer of the 1930s. She is pregna...
Street of Shame
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Balloon 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....
Fireworks
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Balloon for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Beleaguered police detective Nishi takes desperate measures to try and set things right in a world gone wrong. With his wife suffering from leukemia and his business partner paraly...