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The Sea Is Watching (2002)
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The Sea Is Watching (2002)
Original name: 海は見ていた
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Based on Akira Kurosawa's final unproduced script, this Edo-period drama takes place almost entirely inside an ocean-village brothel. O-Shin is a young brothel worker who one night helps a young samurai escape from his pursuers. Against the warnings of her fellow workers, particularly Kikuno and the brothel's owner, O-Shin falls in love with the samurai.
Style: sentimental, serious, realistic, touching, captivating, contemplative, gloomy, jidai geki
Plot: samurai, friendship, prostitute, looking for love, hopes, couple relations, village, village life, fall in love, couples, unfulfilled love, rescue, prostitution, sadness, social injustice, edo period, hooker, friends, love and romance, society, sexual content, social relations, bittersweet, flood, brothel ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: japan, asia

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and sentimental films with plots about love and romance, couples, couple relations, friendship, fall in love, love and friends mostly in Drama, Romance and History genres. Some movies like The Sea Is Watching: The Dive from Clausen's Pier (2005), Silk (2007), The Japanese Wife (2010), Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), Dirty Filthy Love (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Dive from Clausen's Pier (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Good boy Mike Mayer is looking at a fine future and enjoys life with Wisconsin small town friends and steady girlfriend Carrie Beal. Then a stupid accident, diving from the local pier when the water is too low, leaves him quadriplegic. As if that ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, touching
Plot: quadriplegic, self discovery, friendship, starting over, looking for love, hopes, love and romance, disability, couples, small town, tragic event, journey ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, wisconsin
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Silk (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, France, Italy, UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Based on the best-selling novel by Alessandro Baricco, this visually stunning film tells the story of a French trader who finds unexpected love far away from home.
Style: romantic, stylized, realistic, sentimental, sensual ...
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Time: 19th century, victorian era, ancient times, year 2007, edwardian era ...
Place: japan, france, asia, europe, africa ...
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The Japanese Wife (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Snehmoy (Rahul Bose) and Miyage (Chigusa Takaku) are pen friends who exchange wedding vows through letters. Fifteen years pass but they never meet. Yet the bond of marriage is strong between them. This unusual relationship comes under a cloud when a ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, captivating, philosophical, offbeat ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: japan, india, kolkata, asia
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Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Japan, France
Duration: 145 min.
Story: A sweeping romantic epic set in Japan in the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.
Style: sentimental, romantic, stylized, captivating, dramatic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: love story, geisha, women, age difference, japanese culture, older man younger woman relationship, brothel, beauty, love and romance, orphan, young woman, mentor ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 20th century, year 2005 ...
Place: japan, asia, china, east asia, america ...
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Dirty Filthy Love (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A man's life falls apart as a result of his affliction with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Tourette's Syndrome in this touching and funny tale.
Style: sentimental, touching, realistic, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: mental illness, doctors and patients, self discovery, support group, friendship, couples, human nature, mental disorder, uncontrollable, introspection, obsessive compulsive disorder, mental health ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Hidden Blade (2004)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of his new life when he is put to the test and ordered to kill a traitor who just happens to be his ...
Style: serious, sentimental, stylized, epic, romantic ...
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Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Twilight Samurai (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile mother. New prospects seem to open up when the ...
Style: tense, emotional, realistic, atmospheric, sincere ...
Plot: samurai, sword fight, feudal japan, poverty, love, friendship, medieval, character study, tragedy, visceral, love story, assassination ...
Time: 19th century, 2000s, year 2002, y2k, 1800s
Place: japan, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Love (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan, China
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Eight people try to end their loneliness by searching for that one person to love, who can make their life complete.
Style: touching, realistic, emotional, captivating, romantic ...
Plot: friends, love affair, fall in love, wooing, couples, couple relations, looking for love, love and romance, urban, loneliness
Time: 21st century
Place: taiwan, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Filmmaker Saman Moghadam details the struggles of three women living in an antiquated district of Tehran in this emotionally resonant drama. Fabria's husband has been morally corrupted, and now it's up to her to take charge of the small ...
Style: touching, psychological, sincere, sentimental, emotional ...
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Time: 21st century
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Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 124 min.
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Country: USA
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Style: sentimental, realistic, touching, serious
Plot: looking for love, infidelity, haunted by the past, couple relations, love and romance, couples, friendship, redemption, friends, bittersweet
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 80 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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