Movies like Eureka
If Eureka's mix of japan, sibling relationship and loss of loved one stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Eureka's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Nobody Knows
2004 · Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda · 141 min8.0
Why you'll like itShares: japan, sibling relationship, loss of loved one · Also a Japanese drama · From the same decade (2000s)
In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.
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The Boy and the Beast
2015 · Directed by Mamoru Hosoda · 119 min7.9
Why you'll like itWith Koji Yakusho and Aoi Miyazaki · Shares: japan · Also a Japanese drama
Kyuta, a boy living in Shibuya, and Kumatetsu, a lonesome beast from Jutengai, an imaginary world. One day, Kyuta forays into the imaginary world and, as he's looking for his way back, meets Kumatetsu who becomes his…
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Drive My Car
2021 · Directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi · 179 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: japan, loss of loved one, road trip · Also a Japanese drama
Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, still unable, after two years, to cope with the loss of his beloved wife, accepts to direct Uncle Vanya at a theater festival in Hiroshima.
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Ugetsu
1953 · Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi · 96 min8.0
Why you'll like itShares: japan, rural area · Also a Japanese drama
In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage's warning against seeking to profit from warfare.
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Bullet Train Explosion
2025 · Directed by Shinji Higuchi · 137 min6.8
Why you'll like itWith Machiko Ono · Shares: japan · Also a Japanese drama
When panic erupts on a Tokyo-bound bullet train that will explode if it slows below 100 kph, authorities race against time to save everyone on board.
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All About Lily Chou-Chou
2001 · Directed by Shunji Iwai · 146 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: japan · Also a Japanese drama · From the same decade (2000s)
Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their relationship against the backdrop of Yūichi's love for the dreamy and abstract…
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The Lovely Bones
2009 · Directed by Peter Jackson · 136 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: loss of loved one, serial killer · From the same decade (2000s)
After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken family -- and her killer. As she observes their daily lives, she must balance her thirst for revenge with her desire…
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Kids Return
1996 · Directed by Takeshi Kitano · 107 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: japan · Also a Japanese drama
Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time boxer, while Masaru joins up with a local yakuza gang.
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High and Low
1963 · Directed by Akira Kurosawa · 142 min8.4
Why you'll like itAlso a Japanese drama
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.
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Ran
1985 · Directed by Akira Kurosawa · 160 min8.0
Why you'll like itAlso a Japanese drama
Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.
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Tokyo Revengers
2021 · Directed by Tsutomu Hanabusa · 120 min7.8
Why you'll like itAlso a Japanese drama
An unemployed man learns that his ex-girlfriend was murdered. He suddenly finds himself travelling through time to his middle school years and has chance to change the future and save the girl.
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A Streetcar Named Desire
1951 · Directed by Elia Kazan · 122 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: sibling relationship
A disturbed, aging Southern belle moves in with her sister for solace — but being face-to-face with her brutish brother-in-law accelerates her downward spiral.