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10 Best Movies Like One Wonderful Sunday

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

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#1
Repast

Repast

1951★ 7.5

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

In post-WWII Osaka, a middle-aged woman is forced to examine her dreary life and marriage when her husband's young and flirtatious cousin arrives for a brief stay to escape an arra...

#2
Floating Clouds

Floating Clouds

1955★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to One Wonderful Sunday for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she t...

#3
Early Spring

Early Spring

1956★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to One Wonderful Sunday for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A young salaryman and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he embarks on an extramarital affair....

#4
Earthquake Bird

Earthquake Bird

2019★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to One Wonderful Sunday for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Tokyo, Japan, 1989. Lucy Fly, a foreigner who works as a translator, begins a passionate relationship with Teiji, a mysterious man obsessed with photography....

#5
Street of Shame

Street of Shame

1956★ 7.7

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

Follows five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation debates the passage of an anti-prostitution law....

#6
Intentions of Murder

Intentions of Murder

1964★ 7.0

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

The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect of a better life....

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