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10 Best Movies Like Happiness Avenue

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

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#1
The Garden of Words

The Garden of Words

2013★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Happiness Avenue for fans of Animation. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Takao, who is training to become a shoemaker, skipped school and is sketching shoes in a Japanese-style garden. He meets a mysterious woman, Yukino, who is older than him. Then, wi...

#2
Weathering with You

Weathering with You

2019★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Happiness Avenue for fans of Animation. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weath...

#3
The Last 10 Years

The Last 10 Years

2022★ 7.1

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

Twenty-year-old Matsuri Takabayashi learns that she only has ten years to live due to an incurable disease. She decides to not dwell on her life and not to fall in love—until she m...

#4
Orange: Future

Orange: Future

2016★ 7.5

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

Twenty-six-year-old Hiroto Suwa; his wife, Naho; and their old high school classmates—Takako Chino, Azusa Murasaka, and Saku Hagita—visit Mt. Koubou to view the cherry blossoms tog...

#5
Blood and Bones

Blood and Bones

2004★ 6.6

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

In 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kama...

#6
Clannad: The Motion Picture

Clannad: The Motion Picture

2007★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Happiness Avenue for fans of Animation. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Plagued by a seemingly endless stream of haunting dreams, Tomoya drifts through life with an almost overwhelming sense of anger and emptiness. Then, one fateful day, he meets the ...

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