10 Best Movies Like License to Live
If you loved License to Live, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.
The Taste of Tea
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to License to Live for fans of Drama & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
A spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film project. Uncle Ayano, a successful mu...
Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to License to Live for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Fleeing the war, the immortal Machia, graced with eternal youth, finds a baby abandoned in the forest and decides to raise it as her own child, sparking a moving story between a mo...
After the Storm
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to License to Live for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Ryota is an unpopular writer although he won a literary award 15 years ago. Now, Ryota works as a private detective. He is divorced from his ex-wife Kyoko and he has an 11-year-old...
Bunny Drop
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to License to Live for fans of Drama & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Daikichi learns that his recently deceased grandfather has an illegitimate daughter with an unknown mother. The girl's name is Rin and she is just 6 years old. Everybody in Daikich...
Shoplifters
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to License to Live for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In the outskirts of Tokyo, a poor but close-knit group living on the fringes of society survives through shoplifting and odd jobs. When Osamu and his son take in a neglected young ...
When Marnie Was There
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to License to Live for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Upon being sent to live with relatives in the countryside due to an illness, an emotionally distant adolescent girl becomes obsessed with an abandoned mansion and infatuated with a...