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Movies Like just another summer day

If you liked just another summer day (2022), a drama movie directed by Yoshika Matsuoka, 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. 1Animal Crossing: The Movie

    Animal Crossing: The Movie (2006)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    Ai, a self-reliant girl who moves to Animal Village and works at Nook's Cranny, gradually becomes part of the community with guidance from its residents and embarks on a quest to plant pine trees for a Winter Festival…

  2. 2One Million Yen Girl

    One Million Yen Girl (2008)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    A 21-year-old girl is released from prison, only to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her and family conflicts. She decides to save one million yen, move to where no one knows her and keep repeating the process.

  3. 3The Young One

    The Young One (1960)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.

  4. 4Hands of Stone

    Hands of Stone (2016)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.

  5. 5Only Yesterday

    Only Yesterday (1991)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    In lyrical switches between the present and the past, Taeko contemplates the arc of her life, and wonders if she has been true to the dreams of her childhood self.

  6. 6Summer Ghost

    Summer Ghost (2021)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama

    An urban legend says that lighting fireworks at an abandoned airfield will beckon the "summer ghost," a spirit that can answer any question. Three teenagers, Tomoya, Aoi, and Ryo, each have their own reason to show up…

  7. 7Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius

    Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius (2004)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    The story of golf icon and legend, Bobby Jones, who retired from competition at the tender age of 28.

  8. 8My Dinner with Hervé

    My Dinner with Hervé (2018)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world's most famous gun-toting dwarf, resulting in life-changing consequences for both.

  9. 9The Good Neighbor

    The Good Neighbor (2022)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    A nightmarish evening unfolds for neighbors David and Robert when they accidentally hit a woman on her bike and flee the scene. While David is increasingly plagued by feelings of guilt, Robert shows no remorse and…

  10. 10Head Full of Honey

    Head Full of Honey (2018)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    A young girl tries to help her grandfather, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s, navigate his increasing forgetfulness, and ends up going on a remarkable adventure with him.

  11. 11Pimp

    Pimp (2018)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    An urban love story set on the hard streets of the Bronx. A struggling female pimp, named Wednesday, grows up learning the game from her dad. Once he's gone she's left to look out for her prostitute mother and…

  12. 12Hardball

    Hardball (2001)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.

  13. 13Hounddog

    Hounddog (2008)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.

  14. 14The Enforcer

    The Enforcer (2022)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    A noir thriller set in Miami, the film follows an enforcer who discovers his femme fatale boss has branched out into cyber sex trafficking, putting a young runaway he’s befriended at risk. He sacrifices everything to…

  15. 15Goodbye June

    Goodbye June (2025)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.

  16. 16Eleanor the Great

    Eleanor the Great (2025)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.

  17. 17Man with No Past

    Man with No Past (2025)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Waking up in an unfamiliar city, a man with no memory must confront the mysteries of his own identity. However, his desperate search to uncover the past pits him against a powerful enemy, leading to a showdown that…

  18. 18Pastoral: To Die in the Country

    Pastoral: To Die in the Country (1974)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama

    A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan.

  19. 19Moving

    Moving (1993)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama

    Physically separated from her father and at odds with her distraught mother, a girl must negotiate her own passage to maturity.

  20. 20Run

    Run (1991)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    When a law student accidentally kills the son of a mob boss in a fight, he finds himself relentlessly pursued by the mob and the police.

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