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10 Best Movies Like Botchan

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

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#1
Money Trap

Money Trap

2019★ 5.6

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

Asim Noyan swindles people with his lies and games. Asim Noyan and his gang, who no one else has been able to catch, get into a ruse again....

#2
Christmas Wedding Planner

Christmas Wedding Planner

2017★ 5.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Botchan for fans of Romance. It captures a similar heartwarming atmosphere.

Wedding Planner, Kelsey Wilson, is about to have her big break: planning her beloved cousin's lavish and exclusive wedding. Everything is going smoothly until Connor McClane, a dev...

#3
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

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

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....

#4
Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn

Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn

1990★ 6.1

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

This is yet another telling of the adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as the two try to clear their friend Jim of murder charges....

#5
The Good Witch's Garden

The Good Witch's Garden

2009★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Botchan for fans of TV Movie. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Middleton prepares for its bicentennial, and Grey House is to be the party venue. Good witch Cassie is remodeling it as B&B. her first and only guest, Nick Chasen, claims to be...

#6
A.R.O.G

A.R.O.G

2008★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Botchan for fans of Sci-Fi. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Commander Logar fools Arif and sends him 1.000.000 years back in the time. He must civilize people from past to reach today....