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10 Best Movies Like Tora-san's Pure Love

If you loved Tora-san's Pure Love, 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 Tora-san's Pure Love 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
Girls Fight Club

Girls Fight Club

2009★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Tora-san's Pure Love for fans of . It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

The best women's wrestling competition of all time...and if you think it's fake you're in for a big surprise See LEGENDARY Mixed Martial Arts fighters coach their teams to victory ...

#3
Musangwe: Fight Club

Musangwe: Fight Club

2007★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Tora-san's Pure Love for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

The first rule is that there are no rules. For the bare-knuckle combatants competing in Musangwe fights, anything goes - you can even put a curse on him. The sport, which dates bac...

#4
Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress

Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress

1957★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Tora-san's Pure Love for fans of Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean climate to rest. The young empress’ mother takes her from Austria to recover in Made...

#5
Panda! Go Panda!

Panda! Go Panda!

1972★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Tora-san's Pure Love for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Cheerful Mimiko has a wonderfully strange family—a Panda for her Papa; and his son Panny, calls her Mom! When Panny follows Mimiko to school, he must pretend to be a teddy bear so ...

#6
The Small Town

The Small Town

1997★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Tora-san's Pure Love for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A story in four parts is told from the perspective of two children, showing life in school, in nature, with family and at home. All of this unfolding along with the seasons. The Sm...