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10 Best Movies Like Hatsuko's World

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

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#1
Achilles and the Tortoise

Achilles and the Tortoise

2008★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hatsuko's World for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting him, de...

#2
Even If This Love Disappears from the World Tonight

Even If This Love Disappears from the World Tonight

2022★ 7.3

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

A high school girl wakes up each day with no memory of the day before. When she agrees to date a shy classmate, Toru, he begins to fall for her—despite her rule against falling in ...

#3
ReLIFE

ReLIFE

2017★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hatsuko's World for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Arata Kaizaki, a jobless adult, undergoes an experiment that makes him 10 years younger. He goes back to high school and falls in love with Chizuru Hishiro, who is more than she se...

#4
The Lords of Flatbush

The Lords of Flatbush

1974★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hatsuko's World for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Set in 1958, the coming of age story follows four lower middle-class Brooklyn teenagers known as The Lords of Flatbush. The Lords chase girls, steal cars, shoot pool, get into stre...

#5
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hatsuko's World 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...

#6
Glory to the Filmmaker!

Glory to the Filmmaker!

2007★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hatsuko's World for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to complete his latest project....

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