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10 Best Movies Like Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects

If you loved Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Play House

The Play House

1921โ€ขโ˜… 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Upon waking from the dream of a theater peopled entirely by numerous Buster Keatons, a lowly stage hand causes havoc everywhere he works....

#2
Jim's Story

Jim's Story

2024โ€ขโ˜… 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Aymeric runs into Florence, a former coworker, one evening in Saint-Claude in the Haut-Jura. She is six months pregnant and single. When she gives birth to Jim, Aymeric is there. T...

#3
The Man Who Would Be King

The Man Who Would Be King

1975โ€ขโ˜… 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Tired of life as soldiers, Peachy Carnehan and Danny Dravot travel to the isolated land of Kafiristan, where they are ultimately embraced by the people and revered as rulers. After...

#4
Dune

Dune

2020โ€ขโ˜… 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects for fans of Animation. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Sounds as witnesses. They blurr into memories, half-dreams, it is undecided if they are real or not. A fluctuation between imagination and reality....

#5
Cries and Whispers

Cries and Whispers

1972โ€ขโ˜… 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so immersed in their own psychic pains that they are unable to offer her the support she needs....

#6
Too Much

Too Much

1986โ€ขโ˜… 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Oscar dreams of becoming an actor or a stuntman. To contact a manufacturer he stages an accident and consequently injures a young actress, then tries to limit the damage by taking ...