Coming-of-Age / Liberating Dramas and Movies

A list of movies / dramas I'd recommend about growing up, and facing life head on +

Adult movies / dramas about liberating yourself and letting go.

2 similar themes lumped in 1 list.

[ranked in order; a list still in progress].

Feel free to recommend dramas / movies that I missed out :)

chillingindoors jul 12, 2024

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1. Perfect Days

Japanese Movie - 2023

10
2. Sabishinbo

Japanese Movie - 1985

10
3. My Liberation Notes

Korean Drama - 2022, 16 episodes

10
4. Unmet: Aru Nogekai no Nikki

Japanese Drama - 2024, 11 episodes

10
5. Konto ga Hajimaru

Japanese Drama - 2021, 10 episodes

10
6. Suna no Utsuwa

Japanese Drama - 2004, 11 episodes

9.5
7. Snow Prince

Japanese Movie - 2009

10
8. Soratobu Kouhoushitsu

Japanese Drama - 2013, 11 episodes

10
9. Love Letter

Japanese Movie - 1995

10
10. Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo

Korean Drama - 2016, 16 episodes

10
11. Skip Beat!

Taiwanese Drama - 2011, 15 episodes

10
12. Grace no Rireki

Japanese Drama - 2023, 8 episodes

9.5
13. Okaeri Mone

Japanese Drama - 2021, 120 episodes

9.5
14. Bokura wa Kiseki de Dekite Iru

Japanese Drama - 2018, 10 episodes

9.5
15. Past Lives

Korean Movie - 2023

9.5
16. Better Days

Chinese Movie - 2019

9.5
17. Koidesu! Yanki-kun to Shiro Tsue Garu

Japanese Drama - 2021, 10 episodes

9.5
18. In a Good Way

Taiwanese Drama - 2013, 26 episodes

9.0
19. Nagi no Oitoma

Japanese Drama - 2019, 10 episodes

9.0
20. You Are the Apple of My Eye

Taiwanese Movie - 2011

9.0
21. Yumi's Cell

Korean Drama - 2021, 14 episodes

9.0
22. Tremble All You Want

Japanese Movie - 2017

9.0
23. Us and Them

Chinese Movie - 2018

9.0
24. Fujoshi, Ukkari Gei ni Kokuru

Japanese Drama - 2019, 8 episodes

9.0
25. Glass Mask

Japanese Drama - 1997, 11 episodes

9.0
26. Gomenne Seishun!

Japanese Drama - 2014, 10 episodes

9.0
27. I Will Fly to the Sky on a Wheelchair!

Japanese Special - 2012, 1 episode

9.0
28. Swing Girls

Japanese Movie - 2004

9.0
29. Nemureru Mori no Jukujo

Japanese Drama - 2012, 9 episodes

9.0
30. Mama Boy

Taiwanese Movie - 2022

9.0
31. Karakai Jozu no Takagi-san

Japanese Drama - 2024, 8 episodes

9.0
32. 35-Sai no Shojo

Japanese Drama - 2020, 10 episodes

9.0
33. Ho Goo's Love

Korean Drama - 2015, 16 episodes

9.0
34. My Pretend Girlfriend

Japanese Movie - 2014

9.0
35. Boku Dake ga 17-sai no Sekai de

Japanese Drama - 2020, 8 episodes

9.0
36. Go

Japanese Movie - 2001

8.5
37. More than Words

Japanese Drama - 2022, 10 episodes

8.5
38. Our Times

Taiwanese Movie - 2015

8.5
39. Hakusen Nagashi

Japanese Drama - 1996, 11 episodes

8.5
40. Stop Me

Japanese Movie - 2020

8.5
41. Run On

Korean Drama - 2020, 16 episodes

8.5
42. Tell Me It's Love

Korean Drama - 2023, 16 episodes

8.5
43. Attention Please

Japanese Drama - 2006, 11 episodes

8.5
44. Nobuta Wo Produce

Japanese Drama - 2005, 10 episodes

8.5
45. Blue Gate Crossing

Taiwanese Movie - 2002

8.5
46. 1 Pound no Fukuin

Japanese Drama - 2008, 9 episodes

8.5
47. Ugly Duckling Series: Perfect Match

Thai Drama - 2015, 9 episodes

8.5
48. Iguana no Musume

Japanese Drama - 1996, 11 episodes

8.5
49. 49

Japanese Drama - 2013, 11 episodes

8.5
50. Suckseed

Thai Movie - 2011

8.5
51. Anno Lyric

Japanese Special - 2021, 2 episodes

8.5
52. Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

Japanese Movie - 2010

8.5
53. Promise Cinderella

Japanese Drama - 2021, 10 episodes

8.5
54. Twenty Again

Korean Drama - 2015, 16 episodes

8.5
55. Halfway

Japanese Movie - 2009

8.5
56. Tokyo Tarareba Musume

Japanese Drama - 2017, 10 episodes

8.5
57. Hana & Alice

Japanese Movie - 2004

8.0
58. Miao Miao

Taiwanese Movie - 2008

8.0
59. Sixteen Shoukougun

Japanese Drama - 2020, 8 episodes

8.0
60. Hitorigurashi

Japanese Drama - 1996, 10 episodes

8.0
61. Kuzu no Honkai

Japanese Drama - 2017, 12 episodes

8.0
62. Summer Film ni Notte

Japanese Movie - 2021

8.0
63. Kieta Hatsukoi

Japanese Drama - 2021, 10 episodes

8.0
64. 17.3 about a sex

Japanese Drama - 2020, 9 episodes

8.0
65. Matomo Janai no wa Kimi mo Issho

Japanese Movie - 2021

8.0
66. School 2013

Korean Drama - 2012, 16 episodes

8.0
67. Linda Linda Linda

Japanese Movie - 2005

8.0
68. The Cherry Orchard

Japanese Movie - 1990

8.0
69. Dream High

Korean Drama - 2011, 16 episodes

8.0
70. Kahogo no Kahoko

Japanese Drama - 2017, 10 episodes

8.0
71. Asuko March!

Japanese Drama - 2011, 9 episodes

8.0
72. April Story

Japanese Movie - 1998

7.5
73. Gakkou no Kaidan

Japanese Drama - 2015, 10 episodes

7.5
74. Ai to iu Nano Moto ni

Japanese Drama - 1992, 12 episodes

7.5
75. Love & Pop

Japanese Movie - 1998

6.5
76. Somewhere Only We Know

Chinese Drama - 2019, 24 episodes

6.0
77. A Brighter Summer Day

Taiwanese Movie - 1991
78. All About Lily Chou Chou

Japanese Movie - 2001
79. Your Name Engraved Herein

Taiwanese Movie - 2020
80. Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy

Thai Movie - 2013
81. I Wish

Japanese Movie - 2011
82. Our Little Sister

Japanese Movie - 2015
83. I Don't Want To Do Anything

Korean Drama - 2022, 12 episodes