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

The Ballad of Narayama
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Takatsu River 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 ...

Kokuho
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Takatsu River 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...

Rancho Notorious
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Takatsu River for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A man in search of revenge infiltrates a ranch, hidden in an inhospitable region, where its owner, Altar Keane, gives shelter to outlaws fleeing from the law in exchange for a pric...

True Grit
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Takatsu River for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, 'Rooster' Cogburn because h...

The Wings of the Kirin
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Takatsu 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...

Vanya on 42nd Street
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Takatsu River for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
An uninterrupted rehearsal of Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya' plays out by a company of actors. The setting: their run-down theater with an unusable stage and crumbling ceiling. The play i...