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

Early Summer
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Happy Hour for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
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 Pumpkin Eater
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Happy Hour for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful but promiscuous screenwriter. Though they are physically and emotionally compatib...

Before We Vanish
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Happy Hour for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
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 n...

Late Spring
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Happy Hour for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
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 ...

An Autumn Afternoon
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Happy Hour for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
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 li...

Tokyo Sonata
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Happy Hour for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The winds of change blow as a family grapples with unemployment, alienation, mistrust and a lack of communication. When a Japanese salaryman loses his job to outsourcing to China, ...