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10 Best Movies Like Shonan Story

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

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#1
Life in a Year

Life in a Year

2020★ 8.2

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

A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left....

#2
It Feels So Good

It Feels So Good

2019★ 6.7

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

When it rains it pours. Kenji divorced his wife, lost his job and his old squeeze Naoko is getting married back home in the north of Japan, specifically in Akita. He returns there ...

#3
Radiance

Radiance

2017★ 6.5

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

The story follows the social intercourse between a cameraman, Masaya, with a visual impairment, and Misako who disconnects from the world....

#4
Nine Lives

Nine Lives

2005★ 6.1

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

Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life....

#5
Blind

Blind

2017★ 6.2

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

A novelist is blinded in a car crash that killed his wife and several years later rediscovers his passion for life and writing when he embarks on an affair with the neglected wife ...

#6
Not Easily Broken

Not Easily Broken

2009★ 6.3

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

A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple....

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