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10 Best Movies Like The Yoshida School

If you loved The Yoshida School, 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 The Yoshida School 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
Sakuran

Sakuran

2006★ 6.5

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

Kiyoha rises from the lowly courtesan ranks to the high class position of Oiran in the steamy red-light district of Yoshiwara. She is determined to stand on her own two feet and li...

#3
Harmonium

Harmonium

2016★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Yoshida School 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
House of Bamboo

House of Bamboo

1955★ 6.2

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

Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and Japanese locals....

#5
Café Lumière

Café Lumière

2004★ 6.7

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

In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is a writer investigating the life of a modernist composer of the 1930s. She is pregna...

#6
Blood and Bones

Blood and Bones

2004★ 6.6

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

In 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kama...

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