Movies like All Around Us
If All Around Us's mix of japan, hearing and social issues stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what All Around Us's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Shoplifters
2018 · Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda · 120 min7.8
Why you'll like itWith Lily Franky · Shares: japan · Also a Japanese drama
In the outskirts of Tokyo, a poor but close-knit group living on the fringes of society survives through shoplifting and odd jobs. When Osamu and his son take in a neglected young girl, their already fragile existence…
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Harakiri
1962 · Directed by Masaki Kobayashi · 135 min8.5
Why you'll like itShares: japan · Also a Japanese drama
Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku—and a worthy second to deliver the coup de grâce…
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Rashomon
1950 · Directed by Akira Kurosawa · 88 min8.0
Why you'll like itShares: japan · Also a Japanese drama
Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.
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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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Antiporno
2017 · Directed by Sion Sono · 76 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: japan · Also a Japanese drama
Kyôko, a traumatized young Japanese girl, finds herself struggling with her self-confidence in her adult life. Growing up in a family without her mother and her sister, she constantly questions the rationale of sex and…
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Samurai Rebellion
1967 · Directed by Masaki Kobayashi · 121 min8.3
Why you'll like itAlso a Japanese drama
The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped by the lord. Her husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision, or risk death to rescue her.
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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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From Up on Poppy Hill
2011 · Directed by Goro Miyazaki · 91 min7.5
Why you'll like itAlso a Japanese drama
Yokohama, 1963. Japan is picking itself up from the devastation of World War II and preparing to host the 1964 Olympics—and the mood is one of both optimism and conflict as the young generation struggles to throw off…