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

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.

If you loved The Tale of The Princess Kaguya, the closest films we have are Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010), After Life (1999) and The Master and Margarita (2024). All three share The Tale of The Princess Kaguya's contemplative and dreamlike feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Tokyo Story (1953).

🍅 100% Rotten Tomatoes★ 8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Isao Takahatacontemplativedreamlike
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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
2010 · dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
🍅 90%★ 6.7drama · fantasy

Contemplative where it counts, dreamlike underneath

Suffering from a kidney disease and sure of his death, Uncle Boonmee assembles his relatives in the countryside. He reminisces about his past lives and plans to visit a place before dying.

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After Life
1999 · dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
🍅 88%★ 7.6fantasy · drama

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

On a cold Monday morning, a group of counselors clock in at an old-fashioned social services office. Their task is to interview the recently deceased, record their personal details, then, over the course of the week, assist them in choosing a single memory to keep for eternity.

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The Master and Margarita
2024 · dir. Michael Lockshin
★ 7.1fantasy · drama

Fantasy with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases

A struggling writer in 1930s Soviet Moscow finds his life transformed when a mysterious professor arrives with his bizarre entourage, including a wisecracking trickster, a deadly assassin, a vampire maid, and a giant talking black cat, turning the city upside down while exposing the hypocrisy of those in power.

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The Tree of Life
2011 · dir. Terrence Malick
🍅 86%★ 6.8drama · fantasy

Both lean on stillness more than on animation

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 · dir. Marc Forster
🍅 83%★ 7.6drama · fantasyRent or buy

Dreamlike drama in both cases

During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—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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Suzume
2022 · dir. Makoto Shinkai
★ 7.6animation · drama · adventureNetflixHulu

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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Wild Strawberries
1957 · dir. Ingmar Bergman
🍅 94%★ 8.1dramaMax

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 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
🍅 100%★ 8.1dramaMax

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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The Seventh Seal
1957 · dir. Ingmar Bergman
🍅 93%★ 8.1fantasy · dramaMax

Cut from the same fantasy cloth

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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Persona
1966 · dir. Ingmar Bergman
🍅 91%★ 8dramaMax

Drama approached the same way

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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Horns
2013 · dir. Alexandre Aja
🍅 41%★ 6.4drama · fantasy · thrillerPrime Video

The same fantasy instincts

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

In the aftermath of his girlfriend's mysterious death, a young man awakens to strange horns sprouting from his temples.

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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
2022 · dir. Mark Gustafson
🍅 27%★ 7.6animation · fantasy · adventureNetflix

Animation in the same key

During the rise of fascism in Mussolini's Italy, a wooden boy brought magically to life struggles to live up to his father's expectations.

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