
10 Best Movies Like Early Summer
If you loved Early Summer, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Early Summer for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet and rustic man is tested by a marital crisis....

Late Spring
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Early Summer for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces Shukichi that unless he marries off ...

An Autumn Afternoon
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Early Summer for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a...

Happy Hour
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Early Summer for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Four 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 one of life'...

Early Spring
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Early Summer for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair....

Lost in Translation
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Early Summer for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be rea...