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10 Best Movies Like Tokyo Night

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

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#1
Chikamatsu Monogatari

Chikamatsu Monogatari

1954★ 7.8

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

When the wife of a 17th-century Kyoto scrollmaker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find themselves truly falling for one an...

#2
Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl

Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl

1999★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Tokyo Night for fans of Crime. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

In dreamlike mountain scenery, Toshiko makes a daring escape from her sexually warped Uncle Sonezaki. Fortunately, she met Samehada as she runs for her life, which is also escaping...

#3
Record of a Tenement Gentleman

Record of a Tenement Gentleman

1947★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Tokyo Night for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

An errant salaryman's son gets lost until a man from the Tokyo tenements brings him to vendor Tane, who's reluctant to let the kid board....

#4
Café Lumière

Café Lumière

2004★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Tokyo Night 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...

#5
Suzume

Suzume

2022★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Tokyo Night for fans of Animation. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Suzume, 17, lost her mother as a little girl. On her way to school, she meets a mysterious young man. But her curiosity unleashes a calamity that endangers the entire population of...

#6
Kamikaze Girls

Kamikaze Girls

2004★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Tokyo Night for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Momoko, a strange and seemingly emotionless girl obsessed with 18th century France, befriends a Yanki biker and the two experience the ups and downs of their unusual lives in a rur...

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