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10 Best Movies Like Facing to the Clouds

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

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#1
Blood and Bones

Blood and Bones

2004★ 6.6

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

In 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kama...

#2
Shara

Shara

2003★ 6.4

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

The Aso family live in the old town of Nara. One Day, Kei, one of the Aso's twin boys suddenly disappears. Five years later seventeen-year old Shun, the remaining twin, is an art s...

#3
House of Bamboo

House of Bamboo

1955★ 6.2

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

Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and Japanese locals....

#4
Tokyo Family

Tokyo Family

2013★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Facing to the Clouds 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....

#5
My Rainy Days

My Rainy Days

2009★ 7.4

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

Because of her past, 17-year-old Rio lives her days filling the emptiness in her heart with money—until one day, she meets a university professor named Kouki and falls in love....

#6
Return

Return

2011★ 6.4

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

Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes....

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