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10 Best Movies Like Kabei: Our Mother

If you loved Kabei: Our Mother, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Only Son

The Only Son

1936★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Kabei: Our Mother for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A rural widow sends her only son to Tokyo to receive a better education. Years later, she visits him and finds he has become a night school teacher struggling to support his wife a...

#2
Rhapsody in August

Rhapsody in August

1991★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Kabei: Our Mother for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An elderly Nagasaki hibakusha spends a summer caring for her four grandchildren, whose curiosity about the 1945 bombing stirs buried memories and moral questions. When an American ...

#3
Shoplifters

Shoplifters

2018★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Kabei: Our Mother for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In the outskirts of Tokyo, a poor but close-knit group living on the fringes of society survives through shoplifting and odd jobs. When Osamu and his son take in a neglected young ...

#4
Grave of the Fireflies

Grave of the Fireflies

2005★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Kabei: Our Mother for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Hisako loses her home in Tokyo to Allied bombing. With her husband fighting somewhere in Asia, she and her two children evacuate to a suburb of Kobe, where they share a house with ...

#5
An Autumn Afternoon

An Autumn Afternoon

1962★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Kabei: Our Mother 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...

#6
MOTHER

MOTHER

2020★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Kabei: Our Mother for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Shuhei is leading a tough life. His alcoholic mother Akiko can only hook up with bad guys and order Shuhei to go get money from his disapproving grandparents instead of going to sc...

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