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

Nobody Knows
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Osaka Story for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning....

Family Romance, LLC
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Osaka Story for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Love is a business at Family Romance, a company that rents human stand-ins for any occasion. Founder Yuichi Ishii helps make his clients’ dreams come true. But when the mother of 1...

Good Morning
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Osaka Story for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaki...

Bunny Drop
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Osaka Story 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...

Shoplifters
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Osaka Story 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 ...

Fireworks
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Osaka Story for fans of Animation. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Moshimo, Japan. The annual fireworks festival is about to take place and a group of schoolboys, arguing over whether they are round or flat when viewed from different angles, set o...