Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 17, 2026

10 Best Movies Like BISHU

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

🏆

Expert Review & Ratings

See our full critical analysis and audience score for BISHU.

View Review →
Advertisement
#1
Suzaku

Suzaku

1997★ 7.3

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

Depicts the life of a family in a remote Japanese timber village. Family head Tahara Kozo lives with his mother Sachiko, wife Yasuyo, nephew Eisuke and young daughter Michiru. Econ...

#2
The Ballad of Narayama

The Ballad of Narayama

1983★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to BISHU 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 ...

#3
Farming

Farming

2018★ 6.2

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

Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Ins...

#4
Harmonium

Harmonium

2016★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to BISHU 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....

#5
Floating Clouds

Floating Clouds

1955★ 7.7

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

A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she t...

#6
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

Advertisement