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10 Best Movies Like Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit

If you loved Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
From Me to You

From Me to You

2010★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Sawako Kuronuma looks miserable on the outside, but is actually a positive-minded girl, who looks up to Shota Kazehaya, a sociable and friendly boy. Perceiving Sawako's good intent...

#2
Close-Up

Close-Up

1990★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf...

#3
The Method

The Method

2005★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Seven candidates to a high executive position on a multinational company show up for a selection test in a skyscraper at the financial district. Among them, the most disparate pers...

#4
Selma

Selma

2014★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous statement by President Lyndon B. John...

#5
Sweet Rain: Accuracy of Death

Sweet Rain: Accuracy of Death

2008★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Chiba appears seven days before a person dies an unexpected death. His job is to observe the person for seven days then decide either to ‘execute’ or ‘pass over’. Today, again, in ...

#6
Double Target

Double Target

1987★ 4.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

After several American and British military personnel are killed in suicide attacks throughout southeast Asia, the U.S. begins to suspect a plot by the Vietnam government. To uncov...