
10 Best Movies Like Only Yesterday
If you loved Only Yesterday, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Tamako Love Story
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Only Yesterday for fans of Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Devoted to her family’s rice-cake–making business and the high school baton club, Tamako is a little slow when it comes to love. She’s oblivious to her childhood friend Mochizo’s a...

The Hunchback
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Only Yesterday for fans of TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Based on Victor Hugo's famed novel, the story of Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer of Notre Dame, and his unrequited love for the gypsy girl, Esmeralda....

Hana Yori Dango: Final
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Only Yesterday for fans of Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Four years have passed since that emotional marriage proposal at Tsukushi Makino's high-school prom, and Tsukasa Dōmyōji announced his engagement to Tsukushi to the entire world. A...

Chie the Brat
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Only Yesterday for fans of Family. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Chie Takemoto is a dependable girl who struggles to help her troublesome father run a small tavern in Osaka. Unbeknown to her dad, she occasionally visits her mother who left him n...

Memories of Matsuko
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Only Yesterday for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
While combing through the belongings of his recently deceased aunt, Matsuko, nephew Sho pieces together the crucial events that sank Matsuko's life into a despairing tragedy....

Lovestruck: The Musical
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Only Yesterday for fans of TV Movie. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Harper was one of the best dancers to hit Broadway, but an injury caused her to leave the spotlight, become a choreographer, and raise her daughter Mirabella. When Mirabella decide...