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10 Best Movies Like Human Comedy in Tokyo

If you loved Human Comedy in Tokyo, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Helen

Helen

2009★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Human Comedy in Tokyo for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

On the outside, Helen has it all – a loving family and a successful career – but when her suppressed mental illness resurfaces, the world crumbles around her. Crippled by depressio...

#2
Tokyo Family

Tokyo Family

2013★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Human Comedy in Tokyo for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved....

#3
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Human Comedy in Tokyo for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#4
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Human Comedy in Tokyo for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell....

#5
The Ballad of Narayama

The Ballad of Narayama

1983★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Human Comedy in Tokyo for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their ...

#6
Mindwalk

Mindwalk

1991★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Human Comedy in Tokyo for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

On the French island of Mont Saint-Michel, Jack, a failed presidential candidate, Tom, a poet and Sonia, a physicist, engage in an intellectual conversation about politics, philoso...

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