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10 Best Movies Like Messengers to Satsuma

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

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#1
The Ballad of Narayama

The Ballad of Narayama

1983★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Messengers to Satsuma 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 ...

#2
I Give My First Love to You

I Give My First Love to You

2009★ 7.4

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

Takuma knows that his life is shorter than the others and he feels that his demise is getting near. He chose to stay away from the girl that he loves so that she can easily move on...

#3
Sergio

Sergio

2020★ 6.6

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

A sweeping drama set in the chaotic aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq, where the life of top UN diplomat Brazilian Sérgio Vieira de Mello hangs in the balance during the most tr...

#4
Norman

Norman

2010★ 6.1

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

A teenager pretends to be dying from cancer as a way to cope with the realities of his daily existence and his father's terminal illness....

#5
Samurai Spy

Samurai Spy

1965★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Messengers to Satsuma for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutobi, tired of conflict, longs for peace. When a high-ranking spy named Tatewaki Ko...

#6
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

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