Films like Ikiru
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
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Perfect Days
Film · 2023 · also dramaHirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and taking photos of trees...
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Tokyo Story
Film · 1953 · also dramaThe elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor,...
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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Film · 1959 · also dramaAfter handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labour chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants...
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The Colors Within
Film · 2024 · also dramaTotsuko is a high school student with the ability to see the 'colors' of others. Colors of bliss, excitement, and serenity, plus a color she treasures as her favorite. Ki...
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Hereafter
Film · 2010 · also dramaThree people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.
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Happy Hour
Film · 2015 · also dramaFour women in their thirties reevaluate their relationships, both shared and private, after a startling revelation concerning one's marriage forces each of them to ask on...
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An Autumn Afternoon
Film · 1962 · also dramaWidower Shuhei Hirayama's caretaker is his 24-year-old daughter, Michiko. Gradually, he comes to realize that Michiko should not be obliged to look after him for the rest...
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From Up on Poppy Hill
Film · 2011 · also dramaYokohama, 1963. Japan is picking itself up from the devastation of World War II and preparing to host the 1964 Olympics—and the mood is one of both optimism and conflict...
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The Sea of Trees
Film · 2016 · also dramaIn Japan's Aokigahara Forest, a troubled teacher meets a mysterious lost stranger who takes him on a life-changing journey of love and redemption.
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Maborosi
Film · 1995 · also dramaA tragedy strikes a young woman's life without warning or reason. She continues living while searching for meaning in a lonely world.
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