Movies like Perfect Days
If Perfect Days's mix of tree, routine and slice of life stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Perfect Days's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Tokyo Story
1953 · Directed by Yasujirō Ozu · 137 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: tokyo, japan · 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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Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll
2019 · Directed by Haruka Fujita · 90 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: slice of life · Also a Japanese drama
Violet Evergarden, a former soldier returned from war, comes to teach at a women's academy and changes a young girl's life.
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An Autumn Afternoon
1962 · Directed by Yasujirō Ozu · 113 min7.9
Why you'll like itShares: tokyo, japan · Also a Japanese drama
Widower Shuhei Hirayama's caretaker is his 24-year-old daughter, Michiko. Gradually, he comes to realize that Michiko should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.
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Our Little Sister
2015 · Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda · 127 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: slice of life · Also a Japanese drama
After the death of their estranged father, 3 adult sisters invite their teenaged half-sister to live with them.
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Sweet Bean
2015 · Directed by Naomi Kawase · 113 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: slice of life · Also a Japanese drama
The master of a dorayaki pastry store hires a 76-year-old woman whose talents attract customers from all over. But she's hiding a troubling secret.
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After the Storm
2016 · Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda · 117 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: slice of life · Also a Japanese drama
Ryota is an unpopular writer although he won a literary award 15 years ago. Now, Ryota works as a private detective. He is divorced from his ex-wife Kyoko and he has an 11-year-old son Shingo.
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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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Ikiru
1952 · Directed by Akira Kurosawa · 143 min8.3
Why you'll like itAlso a Japanese drama
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
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The Tale of The Princess Kaguya
2013 · Directed by Isao Takahata · 137 min8.1
Why you'll like itAlso a Japanese drama
Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious young princess enthrals all who encounter her.
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Whisper of the Heart
1995 · Directed by Yoshifumi Kondo · 111 min7.9
Why you'll like itAlso a Japanese drama
Shizuku lives a simple life, dominated by her love for stories and writing. One day she notices that all the library books she has have been previously checked out by the same person: "Seiji Amasawa."
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When Marnie Was There
2014 · Directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi · 103 min7.9
Why you'll like itAlso a Japanese drama
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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Dreams
1990 · Directed by Akira Kurosawa · 119 min7.7
Why you'll like itAlso a Japanese drama
Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier’s ghosts, a walk through Van Gogh’s canvases, nuclear nightmares, and a water-mill utopia—meditate on…