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10 Best Movies Like Ken

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

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#1
All About Lily Chou-Chou

All About Lily Chou-Chou

2001★ 7.4

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

Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their relationship against the backdrop of Yūi...

#2
Almost Friends

Almost Friends

2017★ 6.3

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

A man in his mid-20s, still living at home with his mother and stepfather, puts all his eggs in one basket: the girl who works at his local coffee shop. The problem is, she has a s...

#3
Hands of Stone

Hands of Stone

2016★ 6.6

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

The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives....

#4
Double Suicide

Double Suicide

1969★ 6.9

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

Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan. But when he meets the lovely c...

#5
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ken 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
Memories of Matsuko

Memories of Matsuko

2006★ 7.8

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

While combing through the belongings of his recently deceased aunt, Matsuko, nephew Sho pieces together the crucial events that sank Matsuko's life into a despairing tragedy....

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