Movies Like I Love You
If you liked I Love You (1999), a drama movie directed by Yutaka Osawa and Akihiro Yonaiyama, 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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Her Love Boils Bathwater (2016)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaAfter being diagnosed with a terminal illness, Futaba resolves to spend her remaining time reuniting her broken family, reopening the long-closed bathhouse, and helping her shy daughter Azumi learn to stand on her own.
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The Quiet (2006)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaAfter her widowed father dies, deaf teenager Dot moves in with her godparents, Olivia and Paul Deer. The Deers' daughter, Nina, is openly hostile to Dot, but that does not prevent her from telling her secrets to her…
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Small, Slow But Steady (2022)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaKeiko surprises everyone when she overcomes adversity to win her first two boxing fights. But when an unexpected incident threatens the closure of her gym, she is pushed further than she thought possible.
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Kids Return (1996)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaShinji 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…
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Taboo (1999)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaSet during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of interpersonal conflicts are brewing in the training room, all centering on a…
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Sound of Metal (2020)
★ 7.7/10Also dramaMetal drummer Ruben begins to lose his hearing. When a doctor tells him his condition will worsen, he thinks his career and life is over. His girlfriend Lou checks the former addict into a rehab for the deaf hoping it…
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Johnny Belinda (1948)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaA small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.
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All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaCharts 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…
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Love & Pop (1998)
★ 7.7/10Also dramaTokyo schoolgirl Hiromi and her friends engage in a practice known as enjo kosai, or "compensated dating", where older men pay young girls for dates. Hiromi plunges deeper into this world to raise money for an…
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An American Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong (2009)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaA fourth grader and her friends deal with bullying from a more popular girl in their class.
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Where Hope Grows (2014)
★ 7.9/10Also dramaCalvin Campbell is a former professional baseball player sent to an early retirement due to his panic attacks at the plate. Even though he had all the talent for the big leagues, he struggles with the curveballs life…
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaSinger is a deaf-mute whose small world brings him in contact with a young girl, Mick, who cherishes a seemingly hopeless dream of becoming a concert pianist. At first hostile, Mick soon becomes friends with Singer…
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MOTHER (2020)
★ 7/10Also dramaShuhei is leading a tough life. His alcoholic mother Akiko can only hook up with bad guys and order Shuhei to go get money from his disapproving grandparents instead of going to school. Except raising the little…
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The Miracle Worker (1962)
★ 7.9/10Also dramaThe true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller who, since infancy, has never seen the sky, heard her mother's voice or expressed her innermost feelings. Then Annie…
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I Just Didn't Do It (2007)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaA young man is falsely accused of molesting a high-school girl on a train. He is arrested and charged, and goes through endless court sessions, all the while insisting that he is innocent.
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The Miracle Worker (2000)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaDevoted teacher Anne Sullivan leads deaf, blind and mute Helen Keller out of solitude and helps integrate her into the world.
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River's Edge (2018)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaHigh schooler Haruna befriends loner Yamada, then is drawn into the tangled relationship between him, a model and the girl who loves him unreasonably.
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COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing (2025)
★ 8.2/10Also dramaIchika is a high school musician who can enter a mysterious place called “SEKAI,” where she and her friends express their innermost emotions through music alongside Hatsune Miku. One day after giving a live…
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Inu-Oh (2022)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaA cursed dancer and a blind musician — both ostracized by society — become business partners and inseparable friends as their larger-than-life concerts propel them to stardom in 14th century Japan.
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Blue Giant (2023)
★ 7.8/10Also dramaHigh school student Dai Miyamoto has his life is turned upside down the day he discovers jazz. Picking up a saxophone and leaving his sleepy hometown for the bustling nightclubs of Tokyo, Dai will find that the life of…