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10 Best Movies Like I Am Makimoto

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

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#1
The Ballad of Narayama

The Ballad of Narayama

1983★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Am Makimoto 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 ...

#2
Tokyo Family

Tokyo Family

2013★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Am Makimoto 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
Shara

Shara

2003★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Am Makimoto 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...

#4
Goku: Midnight Eye

Goku: Midnight Eye

1989★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Am Makimoto for fans of Animation. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Tokyo, 2014: a city balancing on the razor's edge between financial prosperity and seismic destruction. It is a place where the lights are bright, the stakes are high, and where th...

#5
Girl in the Box

Girl in the Box

2016★ 6.7

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

The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as ...

#6
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Am Makimoto 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....

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