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10 Best Movies Like The Chop Professor

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

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#1
Memories of Matsuko

Memories of Matsuko

2006★ 7.8

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

While combing through the belongings of his recently deceased aunt, Matsuko, nephew Sho pieces together the crucial events that sank Matsuko's life into a despairing tragedy....

#2
Harmonium

Harmonium

2016★ 6.6

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

Toshio hires Yasaka to work in his workshop. But then this old acquaintance, who has just been released from prison, begins to meddle in Toshio's family life....

#3
Café Lumière

Café Lumière

2004★ 6.7

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

In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is a writer investigating the life of a modernist composer of the 1930s. She is pregna...

#4
Achilles and the Tortoise

Achilles and the Tortoise

2008★ 7.0

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

Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting him, de...

#5
Tokyo Fist

Tokyo Fist

1995★ 6.8

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

A businessman, Tsuda, runs into a childhood friend, Kojima, on the subway. Kojima is working as a semiprofessional boxer. Tsuda soon begins to suspect that Kojima might be having a...

#6
Road to Paloma

Road to Paloma

2014★ 5.9

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

While Native American Wolf is being pursued by the FBI for having taken the law into his own hands, when his mother was raped and killed on their reservation he crosses paths with ...

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