Movies like Moving (1993)
The best movies like Moving (1993) are Anarchy in Japansuke (1999), Eureka (2001) and Ritual (2000). If Moving hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedNobody Knows (2004)8.0/10 from 702 votes
- NewestDesert of Namibia (2024)Released 2024
- In JapaneseAnarchy in Japansuke (1999)Also in Japanese
Anarchy in Japansuke (1999)
A middle-aged man walks up to young man who is sitting under a tree and shoots him. The film then flashes back to 1981, where a young woman steals a car with a baby strapped inside. She decides to raise the child as her own, and teaches him to shoplift from stores while she works as a prostitute. She strikes up a relationship with a convenience-store clerk, and the two eventually settle down together.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Eureka (2001)
In rural Japan, the survivors of a tragedy converge and attempt to overcome their damaged selves, all while a serial killer is on the loose.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRitual (2000)
A disillusioned filmmaker has an encounter with a young woman who has a ritual of repeating "Tomorrow is my birthday" everyday. He tries to communicate with her through his video camera.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOne Million Yen Girl (2008)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thistokyo.sora (2002)
Six women attempt to make it in current day Tokyo, living their everyday lives the best and worst they can. For them, every little moment becomes a ritual of the ordinary and the exciting, a balancing act for their dreams and hopes as the days perpetually tug on their heartstrings.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Mourning Forest (2007)
A young woman working at a retirement home takes an elderly man living there on an excursion into the countryside, but the two wind up stranded in the titular forest.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLove & Pop (1998)
Tokyo 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 expensive ring.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisIt's Only Talk (2006)
Based on an award winning novel, It's Only Talk is about the life of Yuko, a 35-year old woman. She is single and unemployed, and suffers from manic depression. The movie begins with Yuko moving to Kamata Town.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Maborosi (1995)
A tragedy strikes a young woman's life without warning or reason. She continues living while searching for meaning in a lonely world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad (2007)
Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns an adolescent boy, Boku - Masaya, torn between the inherited recklessness of his father Oton and the inherited responsibility, wisdom and emotional strength of his mother Okan. Following a period of intensely rebellious behavior, Boku learns that his mom has contracted cancer; suddenly, his mother comes to live with him in Tokyo the entire emotional landscape of his life is altered.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
To the Ends of the Earth (2019)
A young Japanese woman named Yoko finds her cautious and insular nature tested when she travels to Uzbekistan to shoot the latest episode of her travel variety show.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNobody Knows (2004)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThrow Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (1971)
An experimental, psychedelic odyssey through Japanese subculture experienced via the eyes of a disillusioned young man, who must contend with intense familial dysfunction, psychosexual alienation, and existentialist malaise.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHarmful Insect (2002)
13-year-old Sachiko is about to encounter the most difficult moments in her young life. Her father abandons her and her mother attempts to commit suicide by slashing her wrist. Her teacher, whom she relies on heavily, leaves for northern Japan to take another job. Other students start to gossip about Sachiko and her former teacher. Sachiko then drops out of school and attempts to find herself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Desert of Namibia (2024)
A young, temperamental Tokyo beautician struggles to navigate her relationships with lovers, friends, and family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Insect Woman (1963)
A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle. Imamura, with this metaphor, introduces the life of Tome, who keeps trying to change her poor life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPonette (1996)
After losing her mother in a car accident that leaves her with a broken arm, 4-year-old Ponette struggles with anguish and fear. Left by her father with a caring aunt and her children, Ponette grieves, secretly hoping her mother will somehow come back. Confused by the religious explanations provided by adults, and challenged by the cruel taunts of a few children at school, little Ponette must make her way through her emotional turmoil.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCafé Lumière (2004)
In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is a writer investigating the life of a modernist composer of the 1930s. She is pregnant by a man she does not want to marry and has found a kindred spirit in a used bookstore owner who aids her research.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTokyo Sonata (2008)
The winds of change blow as a family grapples with unemployment, alienation, mistrust and a lack of communication. When a Japanese salaryman loses his job to outsourcing to China, it's simply the beginning of a series of shattering incidents, leading to the implosion of the family unit.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSuzaku (1997)
Depicts the life of a family in a remote Japanese timber village. Family head Tahara Kozo lives with his mother Sachiko, wife Yasuyo, nephew Eisuke and young daughter Michiru. Economic recession and failed development plans cause tragedy in the family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHousewife's Afternoon Delight (2010)
Sayaka is a sexually frustrated housewife whose husband rarely talks and is always busy with work. But she soon finds an antidote to her loneliness and boredom in the form of a door-to-door salesman in this erotic drama.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Evil Does Not Exist (2023)
Takumi and his daughter Hana live in Mizubiki Village, close to Tokyo. One day, the village inhabitants become aware of a plan to build a camping site near Takumi's house offering city residents a comfortable "escape" to nature.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNude (2010)
After graduating high school, Hiromi moves from the coastal town of Niigata to Tokyo in the hopes of becoming a famous actress. Her dream seemingly comes true as a manager scouts her off the street. He recruits her as a model but it's actually to be a "nude" model. It's not exactly what Hiromi was looking for, but she can't turn down the opportunity. As her career dwindles, the manager coerces her to make the jump to AV and Hiromi gains a new identity as Mihiro.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Picnic (1996)
Believing that the world will end that very day, three mental patients Coco, Tsumuji, and Satoru set out upon a journey. Walking upon the tops of the walls of the city, they seek to find a picnic spot with the best vantage point to view the final event.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Noisy Requiem (1988)
In the slums of Osaka, various marginalized misfits have their own interpretations of love. Completely alienated from the outside world, they commit sexual perversions, violence and cannibalism.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Naked Island (1960)
A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisClean (2004)
After she ends up in prison and loses custody of her son, a woman struggles to assimilate outside her former life and remain clean long enough to regain custody of her son.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA New Love in Tokyo (1994)
A look at the lives of two prostitutes in Tokyo: Rei, who works as an S&M dominatrix, and Ayumi, in the more straightforward profession of call girl. In addition to their working life, the film also looks at their private lives. Rei is acting in an amateur theatre company along with the receptionist from Ayumi's escort service, while Ayumi is living with her student-boyfriend as he struggles to finally get accepted to college.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Mirrored Mind (2005)
An actress suffering from an identity crisis finds herself spirited away from the bustle of Tokyo to a tropical paradise.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Swallowtail Butterfly (1996)
The struggles of a group of outcasts living in "Yentown", in an alternate-future Japan.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Moving?
The closest matches to Moving are Anarchy in Japansuke (1999), Eureka (2001) and Ritual (2000). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Moving?
People who watched Moving most often go on to Anarchy in Japansuke (1999), Eureka (2001) and Ritual (2000).
What is the highest-rated movie like Moving?
Nobody Knows (2004), rated 8.0/10 by 702 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Moving?
Desert of Namibia (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Japanese movies like Moving?
Yes: Anarchy in Japansuke (1999), Eureka (2001) and Ritual (2000).
How are movies similar to Moving chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Moving, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.