10 Best Movies Like Lanterns on Blue Waters
If you loved Lanterns on Blue Waters, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Tigertail
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Lanterns on Blue Waters for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter....

The Young One
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Lanterns on Blue Waters for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

My Rainy Days
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Lanterns on Blue Waters for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Because of her past, 17-year-old Rio lives her days filling the emptiness in her heart with money—until one day, she meets a university professor named Kouki and falls in love....

Harmonium
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Lanterns on Blue Waters for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Toshio hires Yasaka to work in his workshop. But then this old acquaintance, who has just been released from prison, begins to meddle in Toshio's family life....

Shara
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Lanterns on Blue Waters for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The Aso family live in the old town of Nara. One Day, Kei, one of the Aso's twin boys suddenly disappears. Five years later seventeen-year old Shun, the remaining twin, is an art s...

The Ballad of Narayama
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Lanterns on Blue Waters for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their ...