Movies like Look Back
If Look Back's mix of friendship, elementary school and friends stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Look Back's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Monster
2023 · Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda · 125 min7.9
Why you'll like itShares: friendship, elementary school, school · Also a Japanese drama · From the same decade (2020s)
After an outburst at school involving her son, a concerned single mother demands answers, triggering a sequence of deepening suspicion and turmoil.
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Princess Mononoke
1997 · Directed by Hayao Miyazaki · 134 min8.3
Why you'll like itShares: friendship, philosophical · Also a Japanese animated film
Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way, he encounters San, a young human woman fighting to protect the forest,…
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Jujutsu Kaisen 0
2021 · Directed by Sunghoo Park · 105 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: friendship, shounen · Also a Japanese animated film · From the same decade (2020s)
Yuta Okkotsu is a nervous high school student who is suffering from a serious problem—his childhood friend Rika has turned into a curse and won't leave him alone.
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My Hero Academia: Two Heroes
2018 · Directed by Kenji Nagasaki · 96 min7.9
Why you'll like itShares: school, shounen · Also a Japanese animated film
All Might and Deku accept an invitation to go abroad to a floating and mobile manmade city, called 'I-Island', where they research quirks as well as hero supplemental items at the special 'I-Expo' convention that is…
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My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission
2021 · Directed by Kenji Nagasaki · 105 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: school, shounen · Also a Japanese animated film · From the same decade (2020s)
A mysterious group called Humarize strongly believes in the Quirk Singularity Doomsday theory which states that when quirks get mixed further in with future generations, that power will bring forth the end of humanity.
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The Shawshank Redemption
1994 · Directed by Frank Darabont · 142 min8.7
Why you'll like itShares: friendship, admiring, amused
Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden.
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001 · Directed by Chris Columbus · 152 min7.9
Why you'll like itShares: friendship, school, admiring
Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard—with a place waiting for him at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and…
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Tokyo Story
1953 · Directed by Yasujirō Ozu · 137 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: school · Also a Japanese drama
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo.
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My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
2019 · Directed by Kenji Nagasaki · 104 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: shounen · Also a Japanese animated film
Class 1-A visits Nabu Island where they finally get to do some real hero work. The place is so peaceful that it's more like a vacation...
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When Marnie Was There
2014 · Directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi · 103 min7.9
Why you'll like itShares: friendship · Also a Japanese animated film
Upon being sent to live with relatives in the countryside due to an illness, an emotionally distant adolescent girl becomes obsessed with an abandoned mansion and infatuated with a girl who lives there - a girl who may…
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BLUE LOCK THE MOVIE -EPISODE NAGI-
2024 · Directed by Shunsuke Ishikawa · 91 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: shounen · Also a Japanese animated film · From the same decade (2020s)
When apathetic gamer Nagi agrees to join his rich classmate Mikage in soccer, their partnership leads to the famous Blue Lock program — and to changes.
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My Hero Academia: You're Next
2024 · Directed by Tensai Okamura · 110 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: shounen · Also a Japanese animated film · From the same decade (2020s)
In a society devastated by the effects of an all-out war between heroes and villains, a mysterious giant fortress suddenly appears, engulfing towns and people one after another.