If you loved Mary and The Witch's Flower, try Modest Heroes

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Modest Heroes has roughly 4.7× fewer votes than Mary and The Witch's Flower — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Mary and The Witch's Flower

2017 · dir. Hiromasa Yonebayashi

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Modest Heroes

2018 · dir. Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Yoshiyuki Momose, Takuya Okada, Akihiko Yamashita

What they share

Both films are directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, and they both carry the tender mood tag, and they sit in Adventure / Animation / Fantasy territory. If that's the register that drew you to Mary and The Witch's Flower, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Modest Heroes is

Spirited Away meets The Twilight Zone. Three tales unfold as unusual heroes face challenges. Delivers poignant fantasy.

If you loved Mary and The Witch's Flower, try Modest Heroes

Mary and The Witch's Flower

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What they share

What Modest Heroes is

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