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Movies Like The Wedding Announcement

If you liked The Wedding Announcement (2025), a movie directed by Takehito Sakamoto, 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. 1Equinox Flower

    Equinox Flower (1958)

    ★ 7.4/10

    Wataru's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares her love for a coworker and is adamant to live her own way, instead of agreeing to an arranged marriage. Outwitted by his…

  2. 2Marry Me

    Marry Me (2022)

    ★ 6.6/10

    After finding out about her fiancé's cheating ways, a pop superstar impulsively marries a total stranger. They must soon decide if two people from such different worlds can find true love.

  3. 3The Garden of Words

    The Garden of Words (2013)

    ★ 7.6/10

    Takao, who is training to become a shoemaker, skipped school and is sketching shoes in a Japanese-style garden. He meets a mysterious woman, Yukino, who is older than him. Then, without arranging the times, the two…

  4. 4Pokémon the Movie: The Power of Us

    Pokémon the Movie: The Power of Us (2018)

    ★ 7.2/10

    A young athlete whose running days might be behind her, a compulsive liar, a shy researcher, a bitter old woman, and a little girl with a big secret—the only thing they have in common is the annual Wind Festival in…

  5. 5Descendants: The Royal Wedding

    Descendants: The Royal Wedding (2021)

    ★ 6.6/10

    Happily-ever-after continues for Auradon's power couple as they prepare to say "I do" at an epic celebration with their friends and family, but Hades threatens to ruin it all.

  6. 6Naruto Shippuden the Movie

    Naruto Shippuden the Movie (2007)

    ★ 7.4/10

    Demons that once almost destroyed the world, are revived by someone. To prevent the world from being destroyed, the demon has to be sealed and the only one who can do it is the shrine maiden Shion from the country of…

  7. 7Museum

    Museum (2016)

    ★ 6.6/10

    In Tokyo, Japan, several grotesque murders take place on rainy days. Detective Sawamura, who is in charge of the case, soon discovers that his own family is connected to the crimes.

  8. 8Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko

    Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko (2021)

    ★ 7/10

    Brash single mother Nikuko is well-known for her bold spirit, much to the embarrassment of Kikuko, her pensive yet imaginative daughter. In contrast to her mother, Kikuko wants nothing more than to fit in as she…

  9. 9A Man

    A Man (2022)

    ★ 7.1/10

    Akira works as a lawyer. One day, he meets with his former client Rie, who asks Akira to perform a background check on her late husband Daisuke.

  10. 10Mulan

    Mulan (1998)

    ★ 7.9/10

    When Imperial China calls one man from every family to defend the empire from invading Huns, a young woman disguises herself as a soldier to take her ailing father’s place. Facing ruthless invaders, brutal training…

  11. 11Late Spring

    Late Spring (1949)

    ★ 8/10

    Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces Shukichi that unless he marries off his 27-year-old daughter soon, she…

  12. 12Ugetsu

    Ugetsu (1953)

    ★ 8/10

    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. Genjuro's pursuit…

  13. 13Mamma Mia!

    Mamma Mia! (2008)

    ★ 7/10

    A spirited young bride-to-be living with her single mother on a small Greek island secretly invites three of her mother's ex-boyfriends in hope of finding her biological father to walk her down the aisle.

  14. 14A Midsummer Night's Dream

    A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)

    ★ 6.4/10

    Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night.

  15. 15The Colors Within

    The Colors Within (2024)

    ★ 6.9/10

    Totsuko is a high school student with the ability to see the 'colors' of others. Colors of bliss, excitement, and serenity, plus a color she treasures as her favorite. Kimi, a classmate at her school, gives off the…

  16. 16What's Love Got to Do with It?

    What's Love Got to Do with It? (2023)

    ★ 6.1/10

    Two childhood friends now in their thirties must decide whether to follow their heads or their hearts once the man decides to follow his parents' advice and enter into an arranged marriage in Pakistan.

  17. 17Thumbelina

    Thumbelina (1994)

    ★ 6.5/10

    Born of a flower and growing to only a couple of inches tall, poor Thumbelina is worried she'll never meet someone her own size, until she happens to catch the eye of Prince Cornelius of the Fairies. Just as soon as…

  18. 18Vivacious Lady

    Vivacious Lady (1938)

    ★ 7/10

    College town life gets turned upside down after a button-down botany professor secretly weds a sizzling night-club singer.

  19. 19Rumble

    Rumble (2021)

    ★ 6.7/10

    In a world where monster wrestling is a global sport and monsters are superstar athletes, teenage Winnie seeks to follow in her father’s footsteps by coaching a loveable underdog monster into a champion.

  20. 20Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies

    Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies (1986)

    ★ 6.9/10

    The great King Gurumes is searching for the Dragon Balls in order to put a stop to his endless hunger. A young girl named Pansy who lives in the nearby village has had enough of the treachery and decides to seek Muten…

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