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

Museum
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sakuran for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In Tokyo, Japan, several grotesque murders take place on rainy days. Detective Sawamura, who is in charge of the case, soon discovers that his own family is connected to the crimes...

High and Low
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sakuran for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway....

The Ballad of Narayama
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sakuran for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their ...

Ugetsu
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sakuran for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage's warning against seeking to p...

After the Rain
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sakuran for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As the bad weather continues, tensions rise amongst the trapped travelers....

Kokuho
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sakuran for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Nagasaki, 1964: Following the death of his yakuza father, 15-year-old Kikuo is taken under the wing of a famous kabuki actor. Alongside Shunsuke, the actor’s only son, he decides t...