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Movies Like STEP OUT

If you liked STEP OUT (2025), a drama movie directed by Yukihiko Tsutsumi, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Tokyo Family

    Tokyo Family (2013)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama

    An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved.

  2. 2All About Lily Chou-Chou

    All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama

    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…

  3. 3Mai Mai Miracle

    Mai Mai Miracle (2009)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    Inspired by her grandfather's stories, young Shinko embarks on wild flights of fancy about the history of the little town she lives in. But dreams can't fend off the realities of growing up.

  4. 4The Ballad of Narayama

    The Ballad of Narayama (1983)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama

    In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it…

  5. 5Fast Girls

    Fast Girls (2012)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.

  6. 6Skater Girl

    Skater Girl (2021)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    Prerna, a teenager growing up in rural India, comes of age when she’s introduced to the sport of skateboarding. As a result, she has to fight the odds to follow her dreams and compete in the national championship.

  7. 7Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius

    Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius (2004)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    The story of golf icon and legend, Bobby Jones, who retired from competition at the tender age of 28.

  8. 8House of Bamboo

    House of Bamboo (1955)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and Japanese locals.

  9. 9Café Lumière

    Café Lumière (2004)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    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 pregnant by a man she does not want to marry…

  10. 10Only Yesterday

    Only Yesterday (1991)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    In lyrical switches between the present and the past, Taeko contemplates the arc of her life, and wonders if she has been true to the dreams of her childhood self.

  11. 11Animal Crossing: The Movie

    Animal Crossing: The Movie (2006)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    Ai, a self-reliant girl who moves to Animal Village and works at Nook's Cranny, gradually becomes part of the community with guidance from its residents and embarks on a quest to plant pine trees for a Winter Festival…

  12. 12Okko's Inn

    Okko's Inn (2018)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    12-year-old Oriko Seki, who lost her parents in a car accident, ended up living in her grandmother's Onsen Ryokan "Haru no Ya." With the ghost "Uribou" cohabitating with her and all the other odds, she ended up…

  13. 13Family Romance, LLC

    Family Romance, LLC (2019)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    Love is a business at Family Romance, a company that rents human stand-ins for any occasion. Founder Yuichi Ishii helps make his clients’ dreams come true. But when the mother of 12-year-old Mahiro hires Ishii to…

  14. 14Maborosi

    Maborosi (1995)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama

    A tragedy strikes a young woman's life without warning or reason. She continues living while searching for meaning in a lonely world.

  15. 15Moving

    Moving (1993)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama

    Physically separated from her father and at odds with her distraught mother, a girl must negotiate her own passage to maturity.

  16. 16From Up on Poppy Hill

    From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)

    ★ 7.5/10Also 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…

  17. 17Blood on the Sun

    Blood on the Sun (1945)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    Nick Condon, an American journalist in 20s Tokyo, publishes the Japanese master plan for world domination. Reaction from the understandably upset Japanese provides the action, but this is overshadowed by the propaganda…

  18. 18Passion

    Passion (2008)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    A young couple's announcement of their engagement to their friends is followed by a series of interactions and conflicts that forces everyone to reflect on their lives.

  19. 19Too Late Blues

    Too Late Blues (1961)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    Ghost is an ideological musician and leader of a jazz band who would rather play his blues in the park to the birds than compromise himself. His peripatetic performances lead him to cross paths with a singer, while his…

  20. 20Inside I'm Dancing

    Inside I'm Dancing (2004)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, run by the formidable Eileen. His life is transformed when the maverick Rory O'Shea moves in.

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