Movies Like Future Train: To you who don't know "that day"
If you liked Future Train: To you who don't know "that day" (2026), a movie, 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.
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Rhapsody in August (1991)
★ 7.2/10An elderly Nagasaki hibakusha spends a summer caring for her four grandchildren, whose curiosity about the 1945 bombing stirs buried memories and moral questions. When an American nephew from Hawaii visits, the family…
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Black Rain (1989)
★ 7.6/10Shigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with his wife and niece just after the devastating atomic bombing, a tragedy that cruelly took the lives of thousands of people…
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Maborosi (1995)
★ 7.5/10A tragedy strikes a young woman's life without warning or reason. She continues living while searching for meaning in a lonely world.
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Grave of the Fireflies (2005)
★ 7.9/10Hisako loses her home in Tokyo to Allied bombing. With her husband fighting somewhere in Asia, she and her two children evacuate to a suburb of Kobe, where they share a house with Hisako's cousin, Kyoko. Kobe is bombed…
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Barefoot Gen 2 (1986)
★ 6.9/10Three years after the Hiroshima bombing, a teenager helps a group of orphans to survive and find their new life.
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Kabei: Our Mother (2008)
★ 7.6/10Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist. His wife Kayo works frantically from morning to night to maintain…
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One Million Yen Girl (2008)
★ 7.2/10A 21-year-old girl is released from prison, only to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her and family conflicts. She decides to save one million yen, move to where no one knows her and keep repeating the process.
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The Makioka Sisters (1983)
★ 7.4/10This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid portrait of the pre-war lifestyle of the wealthy Makioka family…
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Tokyo Story (1953)
★ 8.2/10The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't…
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Drive My Car (2021)
★ 7.4/10Yusuke 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. There he meets Misaki, an…
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Norwegian Wood (2010)
★ 6.4/10Toru recalls his life in the 1960s, when his friend Kizuki killed himself and he grew close to Naoko, Kizuki's girlfriend, and another woman, the outgoing, lively Midori.
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Late Spring (1949)
★ 8/10Noriko 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…
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Case Closed: The Crimson Love Letter (2017)
★ 6.5/10Bombing case at Nichiuri TV in autumn. The Satsuki Cup, which crowns the winner of Japan's Hyakunin Isshu, is currently being filmed inside the facility. The incident results in a big commotion and, while the building…
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Shoplifters (2018)
★ 7.8/10In 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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April Story (1998)
★ 7.1/10In spring, a girl leaves the island of Hokkaido to attend university in Tokyo. Once there, she is asked to reveal why she wanted to go there in the first place.
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Lost in Translation (2003)
★ 7.4/10Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from…
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An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
★ 7.9/10Widower 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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Confessions (2010)
★ 7.6/10Devastated at the death of her four-year-old daughter, a grieving middle school teacher is horrified to discover that her students aren't as innocent as she thinks.
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Barefoot Gen (1983)
★ 7.7/10A story about the effect of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.
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5 Centimeters per Second (2007)
★ 7.3/10Three moments in Takaki's life: his relationship with Akari and their forced separation; his friendship with Kanae, who is secretly in love with him; the demands and disappointments of adulthood, an unhappy life in a…