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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.

  1. 1Rhapsody in August

    Rhapsody in August (1991)

    ★ 7.2/10

    An 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…

  2. 2Black Rain

    Black Rain (1989)

    ★ 7.6/10

    Shigematsu 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…

  3. 3Maborosi

    Maborosi (1995)

    ★ 7.5/10

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

  4. 4Grave of the Fireflies

    Grave of the Fireflies (2005)

    ★ 7.9/10

    Hisako 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…

  5. 5Barefoot Gen 2

    Barefoot Gen 2 (1986)

    ★ 6.9/10

    Three years after the Hiroshima bombing, a teenager helps a group of orphans to survive and find their new life.

  6. 6Kabei: Our Mother

    Kabei: Our Mother (2008)

    ★ 7.6/10

    Set 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…

  7. 7One Million Yen Girl

    One Million Yen Girl (2008)

    ★ 7.2/10

    A 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.

  8. 8The Makioka Sisters

    The Makioka Sisters (1983)

    ★ 7.4/10

    This 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…

  9. 9Tokyo Story

    Tokyo Story (1953)

    ★ 8.2/10

    The 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…

  10. 10Drive My Car

    Drive My Car (2021)

    ★ 7.4/10

    Yusuke 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…

  11. 11Norwegian Wood

    Norwegian Wood (2010)

    ★ 6.4/10

    Toru 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.

  12. 12Late 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…

  13. 13Case Closed: The Crimson Love Letter

    Case Closed: The Crimson Love Letter (2017)

    ★ 6.5/10

    Bombing 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…

  14. 14Shoplifters

    Shoplifters (2018)

    ★ 7.8/10

    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…

  15. 15April Story

    April Story (1998)

    ★ 7.1/10

    In 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.

  16. 16Lost in Translation

    Lost in Translation (2003)

    ★ 7.4/10

    Two 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…

  17. 17An Autumn Afternoon

    An Autumn Afternoon (1962)

    ★ 7.9/10

    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.

  18. 18Confessions

    Confessions (2010)

    ★ 7.6/10

    Devastated 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.

  19. 19Barefoot Gen

    Barefoot Gen (1983)

    ★ 7.7/10

    A story about the effect of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.

  20. 205 Centimeters per Second

    5 Centimeters per Second (2007)

    ★ 7.3/10

    Three 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…

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