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

Suzaku
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sun over the River for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Depicts the life of a family in a remote Japanese timber village. Family head Tahara Kozo lives with his mother Sachiko, wife Yasuyo, nephew Eisuke and young daughter Michiru. Econ...

Return
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sun over the River for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes....

Shara
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sun over the River for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The Aso family live in the old town of Nara. One Day, Kei, one of the Aso's twin boys suddenly disappears. Five years later seventeen-year old Shun, the remaining twin, is an art s...

The Taste of Tea
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sun over the River 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...

Tigertail
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sun over the River for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter....

Pastoral: To Die in the Country
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sun over the River for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan....