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10 Best Movies Like Summer Days Across the River

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

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#1
Tokyo Family

Tokyo Family

2013★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Summer Days Across the River for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved....

#2
The Wings of the Kirin

The Wings of the Kirin

2012★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Summer Days Across the River for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A man's body is found under the statue of a winged kirin in the Nihombashi area of Tokyo. A suspect named Yashima has a car accident and falls unconscious while he is attempting to...

#3
TalhotBlond

TalhotBlond

2012★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Summer Days Across the River for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately lead...

#4
The Pumpkin Eater

The Pumpkin Eater

1964★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Summer Days Across the River for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful but promiscuous screenwriter. Though they are physically and emotionally compatib...

#5
Girl in the Box

Girl in the Box

2016★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Summer Days Across the River for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as ...

#6
Shara

Shara

2003★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Summer Days Across the River for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The Aso family live in the old town of Nara. One Day, Kei, one of the Aso's twin boys suddenly disappears. Five years later seventeen-year old Shun, the remaining twin, is an art s...

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