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10 Best Movies Like Kikujiro

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

#1
Kikoriki: Team Invincible

Kikoriki: Team Invincible

2011★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Kikujiro for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

But the lives of the Kikoriki are suddenly turned upside-down when they stumble on a strange device they had only heard about - a TV....

#2
Dolls

Dolls

2002★ 7.6

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

Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales is the story of Matsumoto and Sa...

#3
Fireworks

Fireworks

1997★ 7.7

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

Beleaguered police detective Nishi takes desperate measures to try and set things right in a world gone wrong. With his wife suffering from leukemia and his business partner paraly...

#4
Boiling Point

Boiling Point

1990★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Kikujiro for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gang...

#5
The Bibi Files

The Bibi Files

2024★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Kikujiro for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Using never-seen-before interrogation footage, this investigation of Benjamin Netanyahu and his inner circle provides an unflinching gaze into the private world behind the headline...

#6
Arion

Arion

1986★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Kikujiro for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

The story follows Arion, a young man kidnapped by Hades as a child and raised to believe that his mother was blinded by Zeus and that killing the ruler of Mount Olympus will cure h...