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What a Wonderful Family!

Movies Like What a Wonderful Family! (2016)

What a Wonderful Family! is a 2016 comedy, family film from Yoji Yamada with a MovieMagicScore of 7.2/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with What a Wonderful Family! 2 and The Makioka Sisters.

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What a Wonderful Family! 2

2017

Several years after Shuzo settled his wife’s birthday-surprise divorce proposal (What a Wonderful Family, 40th), the Hirata family faces new problems. Ignoring his family’s worry that he is too old to drive, Shuzo takes his old schoolmate for a spin after carousing. Soon, a new disturbance arises for the Hirata family. Veteran director Yamada Yoji continues his comedy about the “perfect“ Japanese family turned upside down in chaos, laughters and understanding. This time, with an additional taste of death.

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The Makioka Sisters

1983

This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid portrait of the pre-war lifestyle of the wealthy Makioka family from Osaka, and draws a parallel between their activities and the seasonal variations in Japan.

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We Made a Beautiful Bouquet

2021

Two people meet each other after missing the last train home, leading to a beautiful relationship over five years.

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Call Me Chihiro

2023

An unapologetic former sex worker starts working at a bento stand in a small seaside town, bringing comfort to the lonely souls who come her way.

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The Farewell

2019

A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.

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The Elephant Queen

2019

Embark on an epic journey of family, courage, and coming home in this feature-length documentary. Join Athena, the majestic matriarch, as she leads her elephant herd across an unforgiving African landscape filled with vibrant wildlife.

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The Party

1980

A thirteen-year-old French girl deals with moving to a new city and school in Paris, while at the same time her parents are getting a divorce.

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The Party 2

1982

A young French teenage girl after moving to a new city falls in love with a boy and is thinking of having sex with him because her girlfriends have already done it.

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Tumhari Sulu

2017

A happy-go-lucky Mumbai suburban housewife Sulochana, fondly known as Sulu, lands the role of a night RJ, resulting in drastic changes to her routine life.

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Suzaku

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.

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After the Storm

2016

Ryota is an unpopular writer although he won a literary award 15 years ago. Now, Ryota works as a private detective. He is divorced from his ex-wife Kyoko and he has an 11-year-old son Shingo. His mother Yoshiko lives alone at her apartment. One day, Ryota, his ex-wife Kyoko, and son Shingo gather at Yoshiko's apartment. A typhoon passes and the family must stay there all night long.

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Sunny

2011

Seven girls become good friends in high school, then events pull them apart for 25 years. When one of the friends lies dying in a hospital, she wishes to see each of them one last time.

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Dragon

2025

After a top student faces rejection and heartbreak, he cons his way into a finance career. But keeping up the facade proves tricky as the lies build.

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Seto and Utsumi

2016

Utsumi and Seto's daily routine is to spend their afterschool hours just jabbering with one another along a riverbed. Getting excited over trivial word play, agonizing over the content of an email to be sent to a girl, and, at times, talking about a serious problem, the two endlessly engage in meaningless idle talk as if it were meaningful.

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Honor Society

2022

Honor is an ambitious high school senior whose sole focus is getting into Harvard, assuming she can first score the coveted recommendation from her guidance counselor, Mr. Calvin. Willing to do whatever it takes, Honor concocts a Machiavellian-like plan to take down her top three student competitors, until things take a turn when she unexpectedly falls for her biggest competition, Michael.

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A Little Something Extra

2024

To escape the police, a father and his son are forced to find refuge in a summer camp for young adults with mental disabilities, taking on the role of an educator and a boarder. The beginning of troubles and a wonderful human experience that will change them forever.

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Definitely, Maybe

2008

When Will decides to tell his daughter the story of how he met her mother, he discovers that a second look at the past might also give him a second chance at the future.

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Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana

1994

Two Finnish men agree to drive an Estonian woman and a Russian woman to a harbor.

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Something from Tiffany's

2022

One woman's life is forever changed by an engagement ring meant for someone else.

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Brown Sugar

2002

Sidney and Dre can attribute their lifelong friendship and the launch of their careers to one single childhood instant... witnessing the birth of hip-hop on a New York street corner. Now some 15 years later, she is a revered music critic at a national magazine and he is a successful, though unfulfilled, hip-hop record company executive. Both come to realize that their true life passions will only be fulfilled by remembering what they learned that day on the corner.

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like What a Wonderful Family!?

The top films similar to What a Wonderful Family! by MovieMagicScore are What a Wonderful Family! 2 (7.0), The Makioka Sisters (7.4), We Made a Beautiful Bouquet (7.6). Each shares comedy/family themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is What a Wonderful Family! worth watching?

What a Wonderful Family! holds a MovieMagicScore of 7.2/10 from 37 viewer ratings, putting it among the better-reviewed titles in its genre.

What kind of movie is What a Wonderful Family!?

What a Wonderful Family! (2016) is a comedy, family film directed by Yoji Yamada, starring Isao Hashizume, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Masahiko Nishimura.

Where can I find more recommendations like What a Wonderful Family!?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more comedy recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like What a Wonderful Family!

This ranked list pairs What a Wonderful Family! (2016), a comedy and family film from Yoji Yamada, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Isao Hashizume take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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