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Movies Like Record of a Tenement Gentleman

If you liked Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947), a drama and comedy movie directed by Yasujirō Ozu, 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 Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice

    The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama

    The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet rustic man is tested by a marital crisis.

  2. 2High and Low

    High and Low (1963)

    ★ 8.4/10Also drama

    A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.

  3. 3Tokyo Godfathers

    Tokyo Godfathers (2003)

    ★ 7.9/10Also drama and comedy

    On Christmas Eve, three homeless people living on the streets of Tokyo discover a newborn baby among the trash and set out to find its parents.

  4. 4Little Big League

    Little Big League (1994)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy

    When the owner of the Minnesota Twins passes away, he bequeaths the team to his preteen grandson. The newly minted head honcho quickly appoints himself manager, causing unrest in an organization that struggles to take…

  5. 5Tokyo Twilight

    Tokyo Twilight (1957)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama

    Two sisters learn about the existence of their long-lost biological mother, but the younger is unable to accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.

  6. 6Nobody Knows

    Nobody Knows (2004)

    ★ 8/10Also drama

    In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.

  7. 7The Ballad of Narayama

    The Ballad of Narayama (1983)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama

    In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it…

  8. 8Six Pack

    Six Pack (1982)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama and comedy

    Stopping briefly in a small Texas town, an itinerant race car driver finds that his stock car, on a trailer behind his motor home, has just been quickly and expertly stripped. He chases down the miscreants, who turn…

  9. 9Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

    Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy and drama

    In a sleepy Louisiana parish, a group of lifelong friends stage a rather unorthodox intervention to help a young playwright unravel the truth about her complicated mother and let go of her painful past.

  10. 10A Dog Year

    A Dog Year (2009)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy and drama

    Jon Katz is close to burnout. He's a writer with writer's block; his wife has left for her sister's because he's emotionally distant; he rarely answers his phone. A kennel sends him a border collie that's undisciplined…

  11. 11The Boy and the Beast

    The Boy and the Beast (2015)

    ★ 7.9/10Also drama

    Kyuta, a boy living in Shibuya, and Kumatetsu, a lonesome beast from Jutengai, an imaginary world. One day, Kyuta forays into the imaginary world and, as he's looking for his way back, meets Kumatetsu who becomes his…

  12. 12Chloe and Theo

    Chloe and Theo (2015)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and drama

    A young woman, Chloe, living by her wits on the streets of New York City, has a chance meeting with a wise Inuit Eskimo, Theo, who was sent to New York by his elders to provide a message to the people of the world – We…

  13. 13The Yellow Handkerchief

    The Yellow Handkerchief (1977)

    ★ 7/10Also comedy and drama

    A convict, newly released from prison for murder, joins two strangers on a road trip through Hokkaido to visit his ex-wife, whom he hasn't seen in four years, knowing that if she puts a yellow handkerchief on the…

  14. 14Crayon Shinchan the Movie: The Storm Called: The Adult Empire Strikes Back

    Crayon Shinchan the Movie: The Storm Called: The Adult Empire Strikes Back (2001)

    ★ 8.2/10Also comedy

    Shin-chan must rescue the adults of Kasukabe when they mysteriously abandon their responsibilities to relive their youth at the new 20th-century expo.

  15. 15Another Year

    Another Year (2010)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and comedy

    During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less happy with their lives.

  16. 16Hereafter

    Hereafter (2010)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.

  17. 17Skin

    Skin (2009)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.

  18. 18The Ladykillers

    The Ladykillers (1955)

    ★ 7.3/10Also comedy

    Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.

  19. 19Johnny Dangerously

    Johnny Dangerously (1984)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy

    An honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.

  20. 20Kids Return

    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…

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