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10 Best Movies Like Kaiyoppu

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

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#1
The Words

The Words

2012★ 6.7

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

The Words follows young writer Rory Jansen who finally achieves long sought after literary success after publishing the next great American novel. There's only one catch - he didn'...

#2
Genius

Genius

2016★ 6.5

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

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,...

#3
My Salinger Year

My Salinger Year

2020★ 6.3

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

A college grad takes a clerical job working for the literary agent of the renowned, reclusive writer J.D. Salinger....

#4
Hope and Glory

Hope and Glory

1987★ 6.9

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

A middle-aged man recalls his childhood growing up in and around London during World War II....

#5
Albatross

Albatross

2011★ 6.0

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

Beth, a bookish teenager, befriends Emilia, an aspiring novelist who has just arrived in town. Emilia soon begins an affair with Beth's father that threatens to have devastating co...

#6
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

1989★ 7.5

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

No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic and essentially paralyzed, a mira...

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