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10 Best Movies Like Oishinbo

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

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#1
Water and Fire

Water and Fire

2013★ 7.9

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

A pretty young girl falls for an enigmatic, shy man who sweeps her off her feet. She becomes pregnant but is not allowed to tell him. His advisers are adamant. Back home, they have...

#2
Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

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

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site ...

#3
Batman vs. Two-Face

Batman vs. Two-Face

2017★ 6.3

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

Former Gotham City District Attorney Harvey Dent, one side of his face scarred by acid, goes on a crime spree based on the number '2'. All of his actions are decided by the flip of...

#4
A Better Life

A Better Life

2011★ 6.3

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

Yann, a cook, and Nadia, a waitress and mother of 9-year-old child, decide to risk everything on the purchase of a restaurant. With plenty of talent, energy, love and dreams, but ...

#5
Mango Yellow

Mango Yellow

2002★ 6.6

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

The lives of a macho butcher, his wife, a lonely waitress, a sadist and a flophouse manager intersect in Recife, Brazil....

#6
RETURN

RETURN

1985★ 6.8

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

8mm work directed by Norihiko Morinaga....