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Movies that feel like The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (2013)

If you loved The Tale of The Princess Kaguya, the closest films we have are Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010), Minari (2021) and The Tree of Life (2011). All three share The Tale of The Princess Kaguya's contemplative and dreamlike feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious young princess enthrals all who encounter her. But, ultimately, she must confront her fate.

πŸ… 100% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 8 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Isao Takahatacontemplativedreamlike
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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
2010 Β· dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
πŸ… 90%β˜… 6.7drama Β· fantasy

Contemplative where it counts, dreamlike underneath

Suffering from acute kidney failure, Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and his long lost son returns home in a non-human form. Contemplating the reasons for his illness, Boonmee treks through the jungle with his family to a mysterious hilltop caveβ€”the birthplace of his first life.

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Minari
2021 Β· dir. Lee Isaac Chung
πŸ… 98%β˜… 7.4drama

Contemplative drama in both cases

A Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream. Amidst the challenges of this new life in the strange and rugged Ozarks, they discover the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.

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The Tree of Life
2011 Β· dir. Terrence Malick
πŸ… 86%β˜… 6.8drama Β· fantasy

Dreamlike fantasy, and it commits to that

The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.

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Finding Neverland
2004 Β· dir. Marc Forster
πŸ… 83%β˜… 7.6drama Β· fantasy

Animation built on stillness, twice over

During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boysβ€”who soon become an important part of Barrie’s life and the inspiration that lead him to create his masterpiece. Peter Pan.

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Before I Fall
2017 Β· dir. Ry Russo-Young
πŸ… 64%β˜… 6.4drama Β· fantasy

Both lean on dream logic more than on drama

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Samantha Kingston has everything. Then, everything changes. After one fateful night, she wakes up with no future at all. Trapped into reliving the same day over and over, she begins to question just how perfect her life really was.

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Suzume
2022 Β· dir. Makoto Shinkai
β˜… 7.6animation Β· drama Β· adventure

One thread runs through both: anime

The difference: Played as adventure first

Suzume, 17, lost her mother as a little girl. On her way to school, she meets a mysterious young man. But her curiosity unleashes a calamity that endangers the entire population of Japan, and so Suzume embarks on a journey to set things right.

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There Will Be Blood
2007 Β· dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
πŸ… 91%β˜… 8.2drama

Cut from the same drama cloth

Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview's motives and intentions, starting a slow-burning feud that threatens both their lives.

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The Greatest Showman
2017 Β· dir. Michael Gracey
πŸ… 56%β˜… 7.5drama

Drama approached the same way

The story of American showman P.T. Barnum, founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

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Wild Strawberries
1957 Β· dir. Ingmar Bergman
πŸ… 94%β˜… 8.1drama

Both working the same drama territory

The difference: 56 years apart, and the 1950s show

Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.

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Tokyo Story
1953 · dir. Yasujirō Ozu
πŸ… 100%β˜… 8.1drama

Both are drama through and through

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 have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.

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Persona
1966 Β· dir. Ingmar Bergman
πŸ… 91%β˜… 8drama

Drama in the same key

A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer.

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The Seventh Seal
1957 Β· dir. Ingmar Bergman
πŸ… 93%β˜… 8.1fantasy Β· drama

Both know what they want from fantasy

When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.

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