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10 Best Movies Like Tokyo Refugees

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

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#1
Café Lumière

Café Lumière

2004★ 6.7

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

#2
Swallowtail Butterfly

Swallowtail Butterfly

1996★ 7.4

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

The struggles of a group of outcasts living in "Yentown", in an alternate-future Japan....

#3
Tokyo Family

Tokyo Family

2013★ 7.3

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

#4
Himizu

Himizu

2012★ 7.0

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

Two 14-year-olds from troubled, abusive homes come together sharing misery and pain. In the aftermath of an earthquake, the classmates learn how to survive while relying on one ano...

#5
Repast

Repast

1951★ 7.6

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

In post-WWII Osaka, a middle-aged woman is forced to examine her dreary life and marriage when her husband's young and flirtatious cousin arrives for a brief stay to escape an arra...

#6
Pigs and Battleships

Pigs and Battleships

1961★ 7.1

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

In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together....

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