
10 Best Movies Like Tora-san's Cherished Mother
If you loved Tora-san's Cherished Mother, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Tora-san, His Tender Love
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Tora-san's Cherished Mother for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches....

Monkey Business
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Tora-san's Cherished Mother for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours th...

White Hunter, Black Heart
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Tora-san's Cherished Mother for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Renowned filmmaker John Wilson travels to Africa to direct a new movie, but constantly leaves to hunt elephants and other game, to the dismay of his cast and crew. He eventually be...

Rooster Cogburn
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Tora-san's Cherished Mother for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
After a band of drunken thugs overruns a small Indian Nation town, killing Reverend Goodnight and raping the women folk, Eula Goodnight enlists the aid of US Marshal Cogburn to hun...

Smiles of a Summer Night
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Tora-san's Cherished Mother for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Early in the 20th century, middle-aged lawyer Fredrik Egerman and his young wife, Anne, have still not consummated their marriage, while Fredrik's son finds himself increasingly at...

The Play House
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Tora-san's Cherished Mother for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Upon waking from the dream of a theater peopled entirely by numerous Buster Keatons, a lowly stage hand causes havoc everywhere he works....