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10 Best Movies Like Kwaidan

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

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#1
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

1959★ 8.1

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

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exempt...

#2
Funky Forest: The First Contact

Funky Forest: The First Contact

2005★ 6.3

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

An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother, his randy older sibling, and the pair's portly Caucasian brother....

#3
Philosophy Of a Knife

Philosophy Of a Knife

2008★ 3.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Kwaidan for fans of Horror & Drama. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

The true history of Japanese Unit 731, from its beginnings in the 1930s to its demise in 1945, and the subsequent trials in Khabarovsk, USSR, of many of the Japanese doctors from U...

#4
White Dwarf

White Dwarf

1995★ 5.9

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

In a distant future New York medical student Driscoll Rampart accomplishes his internship at Rusta, a rural planet that doesn't revolve around its axis and therefore is divided int...

#5
Uuno Turhapuro muuttaa maalle

Uuno Turhapuro muuttaa maalle

1986★ 5.8

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

Uuno's father-in-law councillor Tuura moves to the country with his wife and daughter Elisabeth. Uuno joins them when it turns out Tuura's mansion is on the construction site of a ...

#6
The Water Magician

The Water Magician

1933★ 7.2

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

Taki no Shiraito is a very independent young woman with a famous water juggling act in a travelling carnival troupe. She falls in love with an orphaned carriage driver Kinya Murako...