Movies Like Paikaji Nankai Sakusen

If you liked Paikaji Nankai Sakusen (2012), a comedy movie directed by Toru Hosokawa, 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
Kamikaze Girls (2004)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy
Momoko, a strange and seemingly emotionless girl obsessed with 18th century France, befriends a Yanki biker and the two experience the ups and downs of their unusual lives in a rural Japanese town.
2
Psychic Kusuo (2017)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy
Born a powerful psychic, high schooler Kusuo Saiki craves the simple life. But the weirdos in his class make it difficult to conceal his abilities.
3
Crayon Shinchan the Movie: The Legend Called: Dance! Amigo! (2006)
★ 7.5/10Also comedy
Something sinister's afoot in Kasukabe. Shin-chan doesn't know what it is, but he's pretty sure it involves samba-dancing doppelgängers.
4
Golden Kamuy (2024)
★ 7/10Also comedy
On the Hokkaido frontier, a war veteran and Ainu girl race against misfits and military renegades to find treasure mapped out on tattooed outlaws.
5
Non Non Biyori: Vacation (2018)
★ 7.7/10Also comedy
Even when you're fortunate enough to live in a place as beautiful as the country village of Asahigaoka, you should never turn down the chance to explore someplace else. So, when Suguru wins a free trip to Okinawa just…
6
The Teahouse of the August Moon (1957)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy
In post-WWII Japan, an American captain is brought in to help build a school, but the locals want a teahouse instead.
7
City Hunter: .357 Magnum (1989)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy
A beautiful pianist comes to Tokyo for a charity concert - and City Hunter is there. But music isn't his forte. He wants lessons in the language of love. Desperation is the word as bodies start dropping. A foreign…
8
Crayon Shinchan the Movie: Action Kamen VS Leotard Devil (1993)
★ 7/10Also comedy
Everyone's favorite TV superhero Action Mask shows up in Kasukabe, and he's trying to get something from Shin-chan -- but what could it be?
9
Girls und Panzer der Film (2015)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy
When the Ministry of Education goes back on its promise to keep Ooarai Girls Academy open, the task of saving the five-mile-long Academy Ship from the wreckers falls to Miho and her barely-seasoned tankery team…
10
Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword (2009)
★ 7.6/10Also comedy
The Mystery Inc. gang takes a trip to Japan and finds themselves circling Asia and the Pacific in a treasure hunt, racing against the vengeful Black Samurai and his Ninja warriors to find the legendary Sword of Fate…
11
29th Street (1991)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy
After winning $6.2 million in the 1976 New York State Lottery, he is arrested for throwing rocks at a church. He then tells his story at the police station.
12
Woody Woodpecker (2017)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy
Woody Woodpecker enters a turf war with a big city lawyer wanting to tear down his home in an effort to build a house to flip.
13
Babes (2024)
★ 6/10Also comedy
After getting pregnant from a one-night stand, a single woman leans on her married best friend and mother of two to guide her through gestation and beyond.
14
Mr. Baseball (1992)
★ 5.8/10Also comedy
Jack Elliot, a one-time MVP for the New York Yankees is now on the down side of his baseball career. With a falling batting average, does he have one good year left and can the manager of the Chunichi Dragons, a…
15
Laid-Back Camp the Movie (2022)
★ 7.6/10Also comedy
Your favorite cozy camping anime returns with a movie as the former members of the Outdoors Club get together again, this time to build a campsite! Reunite with Nadeshiko, Rin, Chiaki, Aoi, and Ena as they gather…
16
Isle of Dogs (2018)
★ 7.8/10Also comedy
In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island used as a garbage dump. The outcasts must soon embark on an epic journey when a 12-year-old boy arrives on the…
17
The Paper Tigers (2020)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy
Three middle aged men polish their martial arts skills to avenge their fallen master.
18
Yo-kai Watch: The Movie - The Great Adventure of the Flying Whale & the Double World, Meow! (2016)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy
A giant whale appears and flies above Sakura New Town. With the whale’s sound of crying, some changes occur to Kenta Amano and Yokai.
19
Adrift in Tokyo (2007)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy
A thug offers to pay a law student's gambling debt if the student will accompany him on a trip across Tokyo.
20
Sweet Rain: Accuracy of Death (2008)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy
Chiba appears seven days before a person dies an unexpected death. His job is to observe the person for seven days then decide either to ‘execute’ or ‘pass over’. Today, again, in the rain, he waits. His subject, her…