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10 Best Movies Like The Song Lantern

If you loved The Song Lantern, 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 Song Lantern 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
Shara

Shara

2003★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Song Lantern 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...

#3
A Dry White Season

A Dry White Season

1989★ 6.6

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

During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody....

#4
Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey

2007★ 6.8

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

A young woman's penchant for sensational Gothic novels leads to misunderstandings in the matters of the heart....

#5
Double Suicide

Double Suicide

1969★ 6.9

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

Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan. But when he meets the lovely c...

#6
Almost Friends

Almost Friends

2017★ 6.3

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

A man in his mid-20s, still living at home with his mother and stepfather, puts all his eggs in one basket: the girl who works at his local coffee shop. The problem is, she has a s...

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