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

Possession
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Japan's Year Zero for fans of Drama & Mystery & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Maud Bailey, a brilliant English academic, is researching the life and work of poet Christabel La Motte. Roland Michell is an American scholar in London to study Randolph Henry Ash...

Triage
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Japan's Year Zero for fans of Drama & Mystery. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The wife of a photojournalist sets out to discover why he came home from a recent assignment without his colleague....

Be with You
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Japan's Year Zero for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Takumi and his six-year-old son, Yuji, haven't come to terms with their wife and mother's death. One day, they meet a woman with an uncanny resemblance to her sheltering from the r...

Journey to the Shore
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Japan's Year Zero for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Mizuki's husband Yusuke has been missing for three years. He suddenly comes back home as a ghost and asks Mizuki to go on a trip with him. Their trip consists of visiting the peopl...

Remember
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Japan's Year Zero for fans of Drama & Mystery. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the death of his family....

Mr. K
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Japan's Year Zero for fans of Drama & Mystery. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Mr. K, a traveling magician, finds himself in a Kafkaesque nightmare when he can’t find the exit of his hotel. His attempts to get out only pull him deeper, entangling him further ...