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

Perfect Days
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ikiru for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and taking photos of trees. Through ...

Tokyo Story
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ikiru for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their...

Plan 75
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ikiru for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In a Japan of the near future, the government program Plan 75 encourages senior citizens to be voluntarily euthanized to remedy a super-aged society. An elderly woman whose means o...

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ikiru for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labour chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemp...

Hereafter
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ikiru for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways....

An Autumn Afternoon
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ikiru 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...