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Movies Like Naoko

If you liked Naoko (2008), a drama and romance movie directed by Tomoyuki Furumaya, 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. 1The Last 10 Years

    The Last 10 Years (2022)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama and romance

    Twenty-year-old Matsuri Takabayashi learns that she only has ten years to live due to an incurable disease. She decides to not dwell on her life and not to fall in love—until she meets a man named Kazuto Manabe at a…

  2. 2Radiance

    Radiance (2017)

    ★ 6.5/10Also romance and drama

    The story follows the social intercourse between a cameraman, Masaya, with a visual impairment, and Misako who disconnects from the world.

  3. 3Journey to the Shore

    Journey to the Shore (2015)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama and romance

    Mizuki's husband Yusuke has been missing for three years. He suddenly comes back home as a ghost and asks Mizuki to go on a trip with him. Their trip consists of visiting the people that helped Yusuke on his previous…

  4. 4The Secret: Dare to Dream

    The Secret: Dare to Dream (2020)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama and romance

    A widow with three children hires a handyman to fix her house during a major storm. When not doing home repairs, he shares his philosophy of believing in the power of the universe to deliver what we want.

  5. 5The Magic of Ordinary Days

    The Magic of Ordinary Days (2005)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama and romance

    Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII.

  6. 6My Tomorrow, Your Yesterday

    My Tomorrow, Your Yesterday (2016)

    ★ 7.5/10Also romance and drama

    Takatoshi Minamiyama majors in art at an university in Kyoto. On the train to the school, he sees Emi Fukuju and falls in love with her at first sight. Gathering up all his courage, he speaks to her. They begin to date…

  7. 7Peter Ibbetson

    Peter Ibbetson (1935)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and romance

    When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live with a severe uncle in England. Years later, Peter is an architect with little time for women, until he begins a project…

  8. 8Love Letter

    Love Letter (1953)

    ★ 7.2/10Also romance and drama

    Five years after the end of the Second World War, Reikichi, a repatriated veteran, translates love letters for Japanese women to American GIs, while searching for his lost love, Michiko.

  9. 9Closest Love to Heaven

    Closest Love to Heaven (2017)

    ★ 7.6/10Also romance and drama

    When Ninon finds out that her neighbor and popular classmate Yuiji Kira only has one year to live, she decides to go out of her way and help him attain happiness on his remaining time.

  10. 10Home by Spring

    Home by Spring (2018)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama and romance

    When an ambitious event planner gets an opportunity she can’t refuse, she goes undercover as her boss and returns to her rural hometown. With the help of her family and the man she left behind, she pulls off the…

  11. 11A Valentine's Match

    A Valentine's Match (2020)

    ★ 7/10Also romance and drama

    Fired from her job as a reality TV host, Natalie returns home for Valentine's Day, only to find herself running the town festival's auction with her ex-fiancé thanks to two scheming mothers.

  12. 12Lovely, Still

    Lovely, Still (2009)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and romance

    A holiday fable that tells the story of an elderly man discovering love for the first time.

  13. 13The Lost Husband

    The Lost Husband (2020)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and romance

    Trying to put her life back together after the death of her husband, Libby and her children move to her estranged Aunt's goat farm in central Texas.

  14. 14The Sleeping Dictionary

    The Sleeping Dictionary (2003)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and romance

    In the 1930s, British officer John Truscott journeys to a remote village in colonial Malaysia to educate and Westernize the local Iban population. There, he's introduced to the lovely Selima. In keeping with tradition…

  15. 15My Rainy Days

    My Rainy Days (2009)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama and romance

    A cold and calculating high school student falls in love for the first time with a professor, but he's dying of brain cancer.

  16. 16Even If This Love Disappears Tonight

    Even If This Love Disappears Tonight (2022)

    ★ 7.6/10Also romance and drama

    A high school girl wakes up each day with no memory of the day before. When she agrees to date a shy classmate, Toru, he begins to fall for her—despite her rule against falling in love.

  17. 17Say 'I Love You'

    Say 'I Love You' (2014)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and romance

    Mei Tachibana is a high school student. Due to a traumatic incident when she was a kid, Mei has been unable to make friends or have boyfriends. By mistake, Mei then injures the most popular male student named Yamato…

  18. 18Ocean Waves

    Ocean Waves (1993)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama and romance

    At Kichijōji Station, Tokyo, Taku Morisaki glimpses a familiar woman on the platform opposite boarding a train. Later, her photo falls from a shelf as he exits his apartment before flying to Kōchi Prefecture. Picking…

  19. 19All My Life

    All My Life (2020)

    ★ 7.7/10Also romance and drama

    It was a chance meeting started by one of Sol’s friends trying to chat up Jennifer. However, in the end, it was those two who hit it off. Sol enjoyed Jen’s smile, her effort, and how silly she could be. Jen enjoyed…

  20. 20Sahara

    Sahara (1983)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and romance

    Intent on winning a competition in place of her distinguished late father, beautiful young heiress Dale takes on the guise of a man and competes in his spot, embarking on a car race that crosses the unforgiving Sahara…

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