If You Liked Tokyo Sonata, Watch These Next
Finished Tokyo Sonata (2008) and want more of the same? These 19 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Tokyo Sonata, most of them are drama.
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19 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.After the Storm(2016)
7.2DramaAlso drama
Ryota is an unpopular writer although he won a literary award 15 years ago. Now, Ryota works as a private detective. He is divorced from his ex-wife Kyoko and he has an 11-year-old son Shingo. His mother Yoshiko lives alone at her apartment. One day, Ryota, his ex-wife Kyoko, and son Shingo gather at Yoshiko's…
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2.An Autumn Afternoon(1962)
7.9DramaAlso drama
Widower Shuhei Hirayama's caretaker is his 24-year-old daughter, Michiko. Gradually, he comes to realize that Michiko should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.
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3.Happy Hour(2015)
7.4DramaAlso drama
Four women in their thirties reevaluate their relationships, both shared and private, after a startling revelation concerning one's marriage forces each of them to ask one of life's biggest questions: "Am I who I want to be?"
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4.Her Love Boils Bathwater(2016)
7.4DramaAlso drama
After being diagnosed with a terminal illness, Futaba resolves to spend her remaining time reuniting her broken family, reopening the long-closed bathhouse, and helping her shy daughter Azumi learn to stand on her own.
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5.Evil Does Not Exist(2023)
6.8DramaAlso drama
Takumi and his daughter Hana live in Mizubiki Village, close to Tokyo. One day, the village inhabitants become aware of a plan to build a camping site near Takumi's house offering city residents a comfortable "escape" to nature.
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6.I Never Sang for My Father(1970)
6.7DramaAlso drama
A man living in the towering shadow of his aging father finds it difficult to start a new chapter in his life by marrying his girlfriend and moving to California.
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7.Early Summer(1951)
7.8DramaAlso drama
In postwar Tokyo, Noriko lives with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her social life, her more traditional family worries about her single marital status at the advanced age of 28. 40-year-old business associate Takako proposes, Noriko's family press her into accepting, but when her widowed…
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8.The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice(1952)
7.5DramaAlso drama
The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet rustic man is tested by a marital crisis.
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9.Nobody Knows(2004)
8.0DramaAlso drama
In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.
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10.We Are Little Zombies(2019)
6.6DramaMusicAlso drama
Their parents are dead. They should be sad, but they can't cry. So they form a kick-ass band. This is the story of four 13-year-olds in search of their emotions.
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11.The Piano Lesson(2024)
5.9DramaAlso drama
A brother and sister's battle over a prized heirloom piano unleashes haunting truths about how the past is perceived — and who defines a family legacy.
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12.Tokyo Story(1953)
8.1DramaAlso drama
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their…
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13.Before We Vanish(2017)
6.5Science FictionDramaThrillerAlso drama
Narumi is on bad terms with her husband, Shinji, when, one day, Shinji goes missing. He comes back a couple of days later, but he seems like a totally different person, and he is now gentle and tender. He goes for a walk every day. Meanwhile, journalist Sakurai covers the story of a family that was brutally murdered,…
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14.Late Spring(1949)
8.0DramaAlso drama
Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces Shukichi that unless he marries off his 27-year-old daughter soon, she will likely remain alone for the rest of her life. When Noriko resists Masa's matchmaking, Shukichi is…
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16.High and Low(1963)
8.4DramaCrimeThrillerAlso drama
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.
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17.The Greening of Whitney Brown(2011)
5.9AdventureDramaFamilyAlso drama
Whitney, a spoiled pre-teen from Philadelphia, is forced to move to the country when her parents feel the squeeze of economic hard times. A fish out of water, far from her comfort zone, she befriends an amazing horse, and undertakes a misguided journey back to her old life, only to discover that her family is her home.
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18.What Maisie Knew(2013)
7.1DramaAlso drama
In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.
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19.Music of the Heart(1999)
6.7DramaMusicAlso drama
After Roberta Guaspari separates from her husband, she receives encouragement from her mother to take up a job of a music teacher at the Central Park East School in East Harlem.
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