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Movies like Sue, Mai & Sawa: Righting the Girl Ship (2013)

The best movies like Sue, Mai & Sawa: Righting the Girl Ship (2013) are Love in Taipei (2023), Which Brings Me to You (2023) and A California Christmas: City Lights (2021). If Sue, Mai & Sawa: Righting the Girl Ship hooked you with its comedy and romance, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.

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  1. Love in Taipei (2023)

    A young American woman is sent by her parents to a cultural immersion program in Taipei where she begins a new journey of self-discovery and romance.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & comedy

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  2. Which Brings Me to You (2023)

    Two romantic burnouts, Jane and Will, are immediately drawn to each other at a mutual friend’s wedding. After a disastrous hookup in the coatroom, the two spend the next 24 hours together, trading candid confessions of messy histories and heartbreak, on the off chance that this fling might be the real thing.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & comedy

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  3. A California Christmas: City Lights (2021)

    Follows Callie and Joseph one year after they fell in love, now running a dairy farm and winery, but their romance is threatened when business and family obligations call Joseph back to the city.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & comedy

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  4. The Best You Can (2025)

    Cynthia Rand is a buttoned-up New Yorker married to a brilliant professor 25 years her senior. She begins feeling the effects of her husband’s advancing age on their relationship, just as her world is turned upside down by the arrival of sharp but chronically underachieving security guard Stan Olszewski in this smart rom-com that reunites Bacon and Sedgwick on screen for the first time in 20 years.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & romance

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  5. Hitch (2005)

    Dating coach Alex 'Hitch' Hitchens mentors a bumbling client, Albert, who hopes to win the heart of the glamorous Allegra Cole. While Albert makes progress, Hitch faces his own romantic setbacks when proven techniques fail to work on Sara Melas, a tabloid reporter digging for dirt on Allegra Cole's love life. When Sara discovers Hitch's connection to Albert – now Allegra's boyfriend – it threatens to destroy both relationships.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

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  6. Why Did I Get Married Again? (2026)

    The couples reunite for the destination wedding of Marcus and Angela's daughter, bringing drama old and new as they ask, "Why did we get married again?"

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & romance

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  7. L.A. Without a Map (1999)

    An aspiring Hollywood actress, on a visit to a charming North England town, has a brief fling with the town undertaker, who also writes obituaries for the local paper. Returning home, where she works as a waitress at a Japanese restaurant, she tells everyone about the handsome "writer" she met on her trip. Unfortunately, he decides to follow her back to Hollywood, setting up the expected light romantic comedy with asides as the newcomer gains experience about the goings on in Hollywood.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy

  8. Enemies, a Love Story (1989)

    A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

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  9. Love Accidentally (2022)

    Alexa and Jason are competing for a position at an advertising firm when their partners break up with them. Alexa mistakenly texts Jason, and they start a phone-only relationship. When they meet and the truth comes out, will true love prevail?

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & romance

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  10. Sitting in Bars with Cake (2023)

    Extrovert Corinne convinces Jane, a shy, talented baker, to commit to a year of bringing cakes to bars, to help her meet people and build confidence. But when Corinne receives a life-altering diagnosis, the pair faces a challenge unlike anything they've experienced before.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & comedy

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  11. Hold Me Back (2020)

    Mitsuko Kuroda is 31 years old and single. She enjoys her life as a single woman. A big reason why she enjoys her single life is that she has counsellor "A" in her mind, which is her other self. Whenever she does not know what to do, "A" gives her the right answers. She believes her happy and peaceful single life with "A" will continue, but she falls in love with Tada-kun. He is a salesperson and younger than her.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & romance

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  12. He Said, She Said (1991)

    Womanising, right-wing Dan Hanson and quiet, liberal Lorie Bryer work for the Baltimore Sun. Rivals for the job of new writer of a vacant column, the paper ends up instead printing their very different opinions alongside each other, which leads to a similarly combative local TV show. At the same time their initial indifference to each other looks like it may evolve into something more romantic.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

  13. How to Please a Woman (2022)

    When her all-male house-cleaning business gets out of control, a mature woman must embrace her own sexuality, if she is to make a new life for herself.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & comedy

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  14. Father of the Bride (1950)

    Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & romance

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  15. A California Christmas (2020)

    With his carefree lifestyle on the line, a wealthy charmer poses as a ranch hand to get a hardworking farmer to sell her family’s land before Christmas.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & romance

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  16. Teen Bride (2017)

    Karin Oriyama, 16 years old. She is in high school and... she's about to get married!

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & drama

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  17. The Good House (2021)

    When wry New England realtor Hildy Good rekindles a romance with her old high-school flame, Frank Getchell, it ignites long-buried emotions and family secrets that propel Hildy toward a reckoning with the one person she's been avoiding for decades: herself. Based on the best-selling novel by Ann Leary.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & drama

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  18. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)

    Two married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue what he thinks is happiness with a call girl. His wife, Helena, reeling from abandonment, decides to follow the advice of a psychic. Sally, the daughter of Alfie and Helena, is unhappy in her marriage and develops a crush on her boss, while her husband, Roy, falls for a woman engaged to be married.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

  19. Jack Goes Boating (2010)

    A limo driver's blind date sparks a tale of love, betrayal, friendship and grace—centered on two working-class New York City couples.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

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  20. Young People Fucking (2007)

    On a Tuesday night, five couples have separate sexual adventures. Matt and Kris, friends for years, want to have an only-once, no-strings good time. Abby and Andrew, married, celebrate his birthday, but it's marred by angst and miscommunication. Mia and Eric are exes, making sure they are over each other. Jaime and Ken work together and this is a first date. Inez and Gord invite his roommate, Dave, to join them. By the time each couple has gone through a prelude, foreplay, sex, an interlude, orgasm, and afterglow, they've answered basic questions: can sex be anonymous, are we bored, is our marriage really finished, does anyone tell the truth, and how do we make someone happy?

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

  21. Reckless (1984)

    Teenager Johnny Rourke is reckless. Born on the wrong side of the tracks, he breaks the law and girls' hearts with equal cool. Cheerleader Tracey Prescott is reckless too. She dumps her conventional life and boring boyfriend to follow Johnny wherever his dangerous path leads.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama & romance

  22. The Year of the Wolf (2007)

    Sari is a young, beautiful and intelligent girl who is busy studying at university,but she suffers from epilepsy and has to face death on a daily basis. Mikko is hersomewhat older university teacher, who is tired of life, and who one day decides toabandon his wife, children and idea of a perfect life. Both characters have been tooscared to live their lives to the brim for too long. But they meet, and in spite oftheir prejudices and reserved natures, they manage to create a dramatic and movingmodern romance which confronts numerous taboos. While the imagery explores theboundary between life and death in a most poetic way, the odd couple's romance istold with both bite and humour. Society - be it in the shape of angry ex-wives,overprotective parents, conservative aunts or embittered colleagues - is doing whatit can to put a spanner in the works."

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama & romance

  23. New Type: Just For Your Love (2008)

    Yuri, who works at the ticket window at a ferry terminal, is one-eyed. One day, she is held at knifepoint and locked away in captivity by an enigmatic man named Kwon, who has missed a ferry. At the very moment Yuri learns that Kwon has supernatural powers. As Kwon and Yuri become closer to each other, Yuri's friend, Akiyama, accidentally finds the secret of Yuri's supernatural power. Yuri has the ability to go back in time. As the price for her supernatural ability, Yuri becomes blind in one eye. In the meantime, Kwon gets shot by mysterious men. Yuri, who has started feeling affection for Kwon, tries to save him using her special power again.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama & romance

  24. Time Was (2025)

    Beth's new house is supposed to be a fresh start, but eerie disturbances make it feel anything but home. Then she meets Melissa-an alluring designer who offers her help. As they work together, Beth finds herself drawn to her in ways she can't explain. But as strange events intensify, so do Beth's doubts. Is she losing her grip on reality, or is something far more unexplainable at play?

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance & drama

  25. Love Without Borders (2021)

    The three siblings Eva, Lieke and Maarten are going through a rough patch. Eva has cancer, but she doesn't want the rest of the family to know. She only confides in young Luke, a cancer patient in the same hospital. Her brother Maarten also has a secret: although he is married to Sanne, he has fallen in love with his friend Hugo and doesn't quite know how to deal with it. In Lieke's case, it is her father Ferry who is causing stress. Because he is not at all happy about his daughter's choice of partner.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance & comedy

  26. Halifax Pier (2026)

    At the end of a tangled relation- ship, Myra and Percy begin to feel the anxiety of the everyday creep in.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama & romance

  27. Je Kotha Hoyni Bola (2026)

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance & drama

  28. Love Knot (1995)

    Olga is a young pharmacist whο lives in the country in Chania, Crete in a confine and claustrophobic environment. Married and the mother of a child she will one day fir herself face to face with her childhood sweetheart, Lefteris who has returned to his place of birth after a long absence, full of ambitions... They both share a tragic sec without, however, confessing, it to each other: they are brother and sister from a different mother. It was the reason they had broken up when they were in love. But now it is not just Olga who goes after Lefteris but Vicky, a young woman who is the complete opposite of his old love. What would love be if it couldn't waste a man!

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama & romance

  29. Angel's Friends - Between Dream and Reality (2011)

    A television movie based on the animated series and settled between the first and the second season aired, in Italy, on 23 April 2011. The movie focuses on the Angels attending the Summer School at the Sunny College in Alpinville, where Raf hopes she will not meet Sulfus. The Devils show up at the school and Raf tells Sulfus she has fallen in love with someone else. Meanwhile, the Earthly ones receive the task of refurbishing the Theatre of Princes (Italian: Teatro dei Principi) and organising a play, Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare. However, they are attacked by a mysterious hooded man who wants them to leave the theatre. The Angels and the Devils decide to investigate and find out the truth about Tyco and Sai's fate. At last, Raf and Sulfus conclude that they'll decide what to do about their future together once returned to the Golden School for the new term.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance & comedy

  30. Train Man (2005)

    The purportedly true story of a 23-year-old otaku (Japanese geek) who intervened when a drunk man was harassing a woman on a train. The otaku ultimately started dating with her and chronicled his event and his dates with the woman (who became known as "Hermès") on the Japanese mega-BBS 2channel.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy & romance

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What are the best movies like Sue, Mai & Sawa: Righting the Girl Ship?

The closest matches to Sue, Mai & Sawa: Righting the Girl Ship are Love in Taipei (2023), Which Brings Me to You (2023) and A California Christmas: City Lights (2021). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.

What should I watch after Sue, Mai & Sawa: Righting the Girl Ship?

Start with Love in Taipei (2023), the closest match to Sue, Mai & Sawa: Righting the Girl Ship.

What is the highest-rated movie like Sue, Mai & Sawa: Righting the Girl Ship?

Father of the Bride (1950), rated 7.0/10 by 248 TMDB users.

What is the newest movie like Sue, Mai & Sawa: Righting the Girl Ship?

Why Did I Get Married Again? (2026) is the most recent release on this list.

Are there Japanese movies like Sue, Mai & Sawa: Righting the Girl Ship?

Yes: Hold Me Back (2020), Teen Bride (2017) and New Type: Just For Your Love (2008).

How are movies similar to Sue, Mai & Sawa: Righting the Girl Ship chosen?

First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Sue, Mai & Sawa: Righting the Girl Ship, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.

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