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10 Best Movies Like Look Back

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

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#1
Look Back

Look Back

2024★ 8.1

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

Popular, outgoing Fujino is celebrated by her classmates for her funny comics in the class newspaper. One day, her teacher asks her to share the space with Kyomoto, a truant reclus...

#2
Bakuman

Bakuman

2015★ 6.4

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

Moritaka Mashiro doesn't want to follow in the path of his uncle who worked as a manga artist, but ultimately died because of exhaustion. Moritaka Mashiro figures he will graduate ...

#3
Ocean Waves

Ocean Waves

1993★ 6.4

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

At Kichijōji Station, Tokyo, Taku Morisaki glimpses a familiar woman on the platform opposite boarding a train. Later, her photo falls from a shelf as he exits his apartment before...

#4
Black★Rock Shooter

Black★Rock Shooter

2010★ 6.1

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

The story of two girls bound in friendship, as well as Black Rock Star's struggle unfolding in another world. But when the two worlds come together... what will happen?...

#5
Over the Sky

Over the Sky

2020★ 6.9

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

Mio is a girl in high school who slacks off. She and her childhood friend Arata and best friend Madoka spend their after-school days in Ikebukuro hanging out. One day, Madoka tells...

#6
Orange

Orange

2015★ 7.3

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

A girl mysteriously receives advice from her future self and as a result her group of friends, along with a newly arrived, troubled classmate, learn how to be better friends and a ...

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