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10 Best Movies Like The Man Disappears Yesterday

If you loved The Man Disappears Yesterday, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Salomé

Salomé

2013★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Man Disappears Yesterday for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his k...

#2
The Ballad of Narayama

The Ballad of Narayama

1983★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Man Disappears Yesterday 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 ...

#3
Harmonium

Harmonium

2016★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Man Disappears Yesterday for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Toshio hires Yasaka to work in his workshop. But then this old acquaintance, who has just been released from prison, begins to meddle in Toshio's family life....

#4
Penance

Penance

2013★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Man Disappears Yesterday for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The murder of a young girl leaves the inhabitants of a small Japanese village in shock. The body of Emili is found by four classmates with whom she was playing. The murder is never...

#5
Shogun's Samurai

Shogun's Samurai

1978★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Man Disappears Yesterday for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers of his son Iemitsu in hopes of gaining him the shogunate despite the stammer and...

#6
Shara

Shara

2003★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Man Disappears Yesterday 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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