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Movies Like Heaven Can Wait. Maybe...

If you liked Heaven Can Wait. Maybe... (2007), a movie directed by Yoshimasa Toki, 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. 1Dolls

    Dolls (2002)

    ★ 7.5/10

    Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales is the story of Matsumoto and Sawako, a young couple whose…

  2. 2The Vow

    The Vow (2012)

    ★ 7.2/10

    Happy young married couple Paige and Leo are, well, happy. Then a car accident puts Paige into a life-threatening coma. Upon awakening she has lost the previous five years of memories, including those of her beloved…

  3. 3Norwegian 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.

  4. 4Kikujiro

    Kikujiro (1999)

    ★ 7.5/10

    Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is determined to see the mother he has never met. The two begin a series of adventures which soon turns out to be a whimsical…

  5. 5The Pillow Book

    The Pillow Book (1995)

    ★ 6.3/10

    Nagito has a fetish for calligraphy on the human body and meets her ideal soulmate Jerome, an English translator sent to Japan. However, once Nagiko's father's gay publisher rejoins the scene, the story is overtaken by…

  6. 6After the Rain

    After the Rain (2018)

    ★ 7.5/10

    Akira Tachibana is a soft-spoken high school student who used to be a part of the track and field club. Working part-time at a restaurant, she finds herself inexplicably falling in love with her manager, a divorced…

  7. 7Tokyo 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…

  8. 8Bull Durham

    Bull Durham (1988)

    ★ 6.6/10

    Veteran catcher Crash Davis is brought to the minor league Durham Bulls to help their up and coming pitching prospect, "Nuke" Laloosh. Their relationship gets off to a rocky start and is further complicated when…

  9. 9Ocean Waves

    Ocean Waves (1993)

    ★ 6.4/10

    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…

  10. 10Emperor

    Emperor (2012)

    ★ 6.2/10

    As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, Gen. Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years…

  11. 11No Longer Heroine

    No Longer Heroine (2015)

    ★ 6.6/10

    Hatori Matsuzaki is a female high school student. She has a crush on her childhood friend Rita Terasaka and believes he will eventually choose her as her heroine, but Rita Terasaka begins dating Miho Adachi. Meanwhile…

  12. 12Even If This Love Disappears Tonight

    Even If This Love Disappears Tonight (2022)

    ★ 7.6/10

    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.

  13. 13One Week Friends

    One Week Friends (2017)

    ★ 6.7/10

    High school student Yuki Hase wants to become close with classmate Kaori Fujimiya who is alway by herself. Kaori Fujimiya refuses to become close with Yuki Hase, because she forgets her friends every new Monday. Even…

  14. 14We Made a Beautiful Bouquet

    We Made a Beautiful Bouquet (2021)

    ★ 7.7/10

    Two people meet each other after missing the last train home, leading to a beautiful relationship over five years.

  15. 15Drowning Love

    Drowning Love (2016)

    ★ 6.2/10

    Natsume Mochizuki works as a teen model in Tokyo, but she learns that she has to move to her father's hometown of Ukigumo. She is in a desperate situation because she can't do the things she wants to do in Ukigumo. One…

  16. 16Dangerous Drugs of Sex

    Dangerous Drugs of Sex (2020)

    ★ 6.4/10

    An elite salaryman drunkenly tries to die by suicide, but is saved by a mysterious stranger who holds him captive and sexually torments him.

  17. 17Maborosi

    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.

  18. 18Your Eyes Tell

    Your Eyes Tell (2020)

    ★ 8.5/10

    A tragic accident lead to Akari's blindness, but she clings to life and the smaller pleasures it can still afford her. She meets Rui and begins to talk to him. Rui was once a promising kickboxer, but something happened…

  19. 19Drive 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…

  20. 20The Sea of Trees

    The Sea of Trees (2016)

    ★ 6.2/10

    In Japan's Aokigahara Forest, a troubled teacher meets a mysterious lost stranger who takes him on a life-changing journey of love and redemption.

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