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10 Best Movies Like Little Forest: Winter/Spring

If you loved Little Forest: Winter/Spring, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Little Forest: Summer/Autumn

Little Forest: Summer/Autumn

2014★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Little Forest: Winter/Spring for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Fleeing heartbreak in the big city, Ichiko returns to Komori, her rural hometown. She battles summer's rain and humidity, bakes her own bread, grows hothouse tomatoes and tills the...

#2
Sweet Bean

Sweet Bean

2015★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Little Forest: Winter/Spring for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The master of a dorayaki pastry store hires a 76-year-old woman whose talents attract customers from all over. But she's hiding a troubling secret. Life's joys are found in the lit...

#3
The Taste of Tea

The Taste of Tea

2004★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Little Forest: Winter/Spring for fans of Drama. 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...

#4
Only Yesterday

Only Yesterday

1991★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Little Forest: Winter/Spring for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In lyrical switches between the present and the past, Taeko contemplates the arc of her life, and wonders if she has been true to the dreams of her childhood self....

#5
Bunny Drop

Bunny Drop

2011★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Little Forest: Winter/Spring for fans of Drama. 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...

#6
Wood Job!

Wood Job!

2014★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Little Forest: Winter/Spring for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

After failing his university entrance exam, Yuki Hirano sets his eyes on the role of a forestry trainee. Setting off for training he doubts his decision many times, but eventually ...

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