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10 Best Movies Like A Japanese Tragedy

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

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2011★ 7.6

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

A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school ...

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Grave of the Fireflies

Grave of the Fireflies

2005★ 7.9

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

Hisako loses her home in Tokyo to Allied bombing. With her husband fighting somewhere in Asia, she and her two children evacuate to a suburb of Kobe, where they share a house with ...

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Goodnight, Mister Tom

Goodnight, Mister Tom

1998★ 6.9

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

A shy and quiet World War II evacuee is housed by a disgruntled old man, and they soon develop a close bond....

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MOTHER

MOTHER

2020★ 7.0

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

Shuhei is leading a tough life. His alcoholic mother Akiko can only hook up with bad guys and order Shuhei to go get money from his disapproving grandparents instead of going to sc...

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Shara

Shara

2003★ 6.5

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

The Aso family live in the old town of Nara. One Day, Kei, one of the Aso's twin boys suddenly disappears. Five years later seventeen-year old Shun, the remaining twin, is an art s...

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Flowers in the Attic

Flowers in the Attic

2014★ 6.7

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

After the sudden death of their father, four children face cruel treatment from their ruthless grandmother....

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