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10 Best Movies Like This Country's Sky

If you loved This Country's Sky, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Battles Without Honor and Humanity

Battles Without Honor and Humanity

1973★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Country's Sky for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza....

#2
House of Bamboo

House of Bamboo

1955★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Country's Sky for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and Japanese locals....

#3
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima

1973★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Country's Sky for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Me...

#4
A Hen in the Wind

A Hen in the Wind

1948★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Country's Sky for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Tokiko is a mother patiently waiting for her husband's return from the war when her 4-year old son becomes ill. She takes him to the doctor for treatment but has no way of paying. ...

#5
Gate of Flesh

Gate of Flesh

1964★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Country's Sky for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post–World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence, maintaining tenuous friendships and a semb...

#6
Wife of a Spy

Wife of a Spy

2020★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Country's Sky for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

It’s 1940, and the population of Japan is divided over its entry into World War II. Satoko, the wife of a fabric merchant, is devoted to her husband but is beginning to suspect he’...

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