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10 Best Movies Like Tokyo Sonata

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

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#1
Café Lumière

Café Lumière

2004★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Tokyo Sonata 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...

#2
So Long, My Son

So Long, My Son

2019★ 7.7

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

Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present....

#3
The Notebook

The Notebook

2013★ 6.5

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

In a village on the Hungarian border, two young brothers grow up during war time with their cruel grandmother and must learn every trick of evil to survive in the absurd world of a...

#4
Exhibition

Exhibition

2013★ 5.0

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

An intimate examination of a contemporary artist couple, whose living and working patterns are threatened by the imminent sale of their home....

#5
A Song of Sword as Pillow: Practice Travel

A Song of Sword as Pillow: Practice Travel

2022★ 8.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Tokyo Sonata for fans of Animation. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

"Turning a blind eye is the same crime as the executioner".   The first extra-long theatrical version of the series, the story revolves around the treacherous struggle that takes ...

#6
Matewan

Matewan

1987★ 7.4

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

Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes"...