Movies Like Drucker in the Dug-Out

If you liked Drucker in the Dug-Out (2011), a comedy and drama movie directed by Makoto Tanaka, 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
Linda Linda Linda (2005)
★ 7.6/10Also comedy and drama
Only three days before the school festival, a newly formed high school band rushes to put together a set for their big show — including a hit single by '80s by the Japanese punk rock band The Blue Hearts.
2
Swing Girls (2004)
★ 8/10Also comedy and drama
A group of delinquent high school girls form a band when they accidentally poison their school's brass band and have to replace them.
3
Waterboys (2001)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy
In a Japanese school, 5 adolescent geeks join the new sport teacher and take up the challenge to take part in the synchronised swimming competition, in-spite of the mockeries of the real sportsmen.
4
The First Slam Dunk (2022)
★ 7.8/10Also comedy and drama
Shohoku's “speedster” and point guard, Ryota Miyagi, always plays with brains and lightning speed, running circles around his opponents while feigning composure. In his second year of high school, Ryota plays with the…
5
Liz and the Blue Bird (2018)
★ 7.5/10Also drama
In their last year of high school, two girls in the brass band club perform a song inspired by a fairy tale that parallels their friendship.
6
HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle (2024)
★ 7.9/10Also comedy
Shoyo Hinata joins Karasuno High's volleyball club to be like his idol, a former Karasuno player known as the 'Little Giant'. But Hinata soon learns that he must team up with his middle school nemesis, Tobio Kageyama…
7
Haikyu!! The Movie: Battle of Concepts (2017)
★ 8/10Also drama
A recap film depicting the match against Shiratorizawa Academy in the third season of the anime series.
8
Flying Colors (2015)
★ 7.6/10Also comedy and drama
A high school girl, Sayaka Kudō was the bottom of the class. After a year, she improved her deviation value from 30 to 70, then passed Keio University that is considered one of the most difficult to enter in Japan.
9
Haikyu!! the Movie: The End and the Beginning (2015)
★ 8.4/10Also drama
Shouyou Hinata, after losing to Kitagawa Daiichi Junior High's setter Tobio Kageyama in his first official volleyball match, transfers to Karasuno High, intent on finally having a proper volleyball team and getting his…
10
Sound! Euphonium the Movie - Our Promise: A Brand New Day (2019)
★ 7.1/10Also drama
The next piece begins! Kumiko is now in her second year at Kitauji High School, and with a new year comes new problems. As if making it to Nationals wasn't hard enough, Kumiko is tasked with mentoring the concert…
11
Ping Pong (2002)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy and drama
As children, the introverted Smile was being bullied by a gang of kids until the brash Peco comes by and chases all of them them away. Peco then takes Smile under his wings and teaches him how to play the game of ping…
12
The Kirishima Thing (2012)
★ 6.9/10Also drama
A story about the disappearance of Kirishima, a star athlete of the volleyball club, and how his disappearance affects every person in school.
13
Kids Return (1996)
★ 6.9/10Also drama
Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time boxer, while Masaru joins up with a local yakuza gang. However, the world…
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
The Colors Within (2024)
★ 6.9/10Also drama
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
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…
17
Crows Zero II (2009)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy and drama
Genji and his victorious G.P.S. alliance find themselves facing down a new challenge by the students of Hosen Academy, feared by everyone as 'The Army of Killers.' The two schools, in fact, have a history of bad blood…
18
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…
19
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Kid (2023)
★ 7.7/10Also drama
Finally, the day of Mai's high school graduation has arrived. While Sakuta eagerly waits for his girlfriend, an elementary schooler who looks exactly like her appears before him. Suspicious, and for all the wrong…
20
Battle Royale (2000)
★ 7.3/10Also drama
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.