Movies like Kamikaze Girls

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Kamikaze Girls (2004)
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Kamikaze Girls (2004)
Original name: 下妻物語
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Momoko is an ordinary girl, living an ordinary life. Ordinary, that is, if you define ordinary as wearing elaborate lolita dresses from the Rococo period in 18th Century France. However, when punk girl and self-styled 'Yanki' Ichiko comes calling, her days as 'ordinary' are most certainly numbered...
Style: surreal, humorous, sweet, light, melancholic, talky, stylized, feel good, semi serious, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: friendship, motorcycle gang, teenager, revenge, gang, on the road, obsessive quest, youth, misfit, women, punk, coming of age, teenage girl, female protagonist, self discovery, family drama, fashion, female friendship, japanese girl, superhero, lesbian, introvert, best friend, strength, outsider ...
Time: 2000s, 18th century
Place: japan, tokyo, france, europe, hong kong
Keyword: reboot, avant-garde, eye candy, gangsters, dreams

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Most similar movies to Kamikaze Girls

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, feel good and realistic films with plots about friendship, youth, friends, coming of age, teenager, teenage life and best friend mostly in Comedy, Drama and Music genres. Some movies like Kamikaze Girls: Adrift in Tokyo (2007), Bakuman (2015), Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), Linda Linda Linda (2005), Hana and Alice (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Adrift in Tokyo (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Leading a lazy life, Fumiya has been a university student for 8 years and owes money to loan sharks. One day, a man named Fukuhara comes to collect the loan, which Fumiya cannot pay. So Fukuhara makes a proposition: He will cancel the debt as long ...
Style: realistic, humorous, captivating, psychological, light ...
Plot: city life, loan, confession, on the road, walking, regret, gangster, yakuza, friendship, teenager, cafe, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: tokyo, japan, east asia, asia
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Bakuman (2015)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Moritaka Mashiro (Takeru Satoh) doesn't want to follow in the path of his uncle who worked as a manga artist, but ultimately died because of exhaustion. Moritaka Mashiro figures he will graduate from school and work at an office. Things change ...
Style: feel good, entertaining, humorous, funny, captivating ...
Plot: friendship, art, drawing, couple relations, relationships, painter, teenage life, youth, teenager, satire, ambition, father daughter relationship ...
Place: japan, tokyo
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Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Two not-too-bright party girls reinvent themselves for their high school reunion. Armed with a borrowed Jaguar, new clothes and the story of their success as the inventors of Post-It notes, Romy and Michele descend on their alma mater, but their ...
Style: humorous, feel good, cult classic, hilarious, light ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: women, high school, fashion, friendship, high school reunion, teenager, bullying, stereotypes, female friendship, switching roles, love and romance, self discovery ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s
Place: arizona, usa, los angeles, beverly hills, tucson arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A high school slacker pretends to be sick to skip school and have an exciting day off alongside his girlfriend and his best buddy through Chicago, while trying to outwit his obsessive school principal and his unconformited sister along the way.
Style: feel good, entertaining, funny, light, teen ...
Audience: teens, kids, family friendly, chick flick, family outing ...
Plot: coming of age, high school, teenager, teacher, teenage girl, friendship, teen angst, school, teenage angst, teenage boy, skipping school, rebel ...
Time: 80s, year 1986, 20th century
Place: chicago, usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Linda Linda Linda (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A group of four high school girls decide to put together a band for their school cultural festival. Three days before they are to play the festival, the guitarist and singer quit the band. The remaining members must figure out what to do or risk ...
Style: touching, sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: japanese schoolgirl, japanese girl, music band, musician's life, teenage life, youth, love and romance, lifestyle, music, contests and competitions, artists and showbiz, high school life ...
Place: japan
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Hana and Alice (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Two teenage best pals attracted to the same boy end up scrambling his life after he walks into a door and is knocked unconscious.
Style: humorous, touching, semi serious, erotic drama, gay cinema ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: coming of age, best friend, love triangle, amnesia, fall in love, friendship, teenage life, love and romance, youth, couples, high school, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Place: japan, tokyo
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Cheats (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: While other kids buy into countless hours of studying just so they can get a mark in some teacher's report book, Handsome Davis sees it as nothing more than a system of control over your mind. That's why Handsome and his three best friends ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, light, realistic
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, coming of age, gang, friendship, teenage life, cons and scams, partner, dishonesty, teachers and students, teenager, scam, college ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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I Love You Too (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Written by comedian Peter Helliar, I LOVE YOU TOO stars Brendan Cowell as Jim, a 30-something emotionally stunted man whose inability to declare his love to his girlfriend, Alice, threatens to cost him the best thing he ever had but leads him to ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, buddies, couple relations, breakup, wooing, society, thirtysomething life, love and romance, lifestyle, friends, couples, women
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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The F**k-It List (2020)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After a prank blows up a studious high school senior's life, he shares a list of certain things he wishes he'd done differently — and maybe still can.
Style: semi serious, light, feel good, sentimental, humorous
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: coming of age, friendship, desire, wish come true, teenage girl, teenager, youth, party, happy ending, magic, distopia, high school ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Daisies (1966)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Two teenage girls, both named Marie, decide that since the world is spoiled they will be spoiled as well; accordingly they embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world about them. This freewheeling, madcap ...
Style: psychedelic, avant garde, surreal, experimental, art house ...
Audience: teens
Plot: surrealism, nihilism, flapper, feminist, feminism, female friendship, absurd humor, teenage girl, women, satire, trippy, youth ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
Place: czech republic, eastern europe, czechoslovakia, prague, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Be Kind Rewind (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A man whose brain becomes magnetized unintentionally destroys every tape in his friend's video store. In order to satisfy the store's most loyal renter, an aging woman with signs of dementia, the two men set out to remake the lost films.
Style: surreal, light, funny, stylized, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: jazz, video store, filmmaking, eccentricity, friendship, creativity, nothing goes right, art, sabotage, buddy, workplace, african american ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
I Don't Have Many Friends (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Second year high school student Kodaka Hasegawa has transferred to his new school about a month ago, but he still hasn't made any friends. Kodaka Hasegawa was born from a Japanese father and a British mother. Because of his appearance, people ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, entertaining, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, friends, society, youth, teenage love, social misfits, physical appearance, self discovery, love and romance, social relations, teenage life, high school life
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Dirty Girl (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: It's 1987 and Danielle, the high school 'Dirty Girl', is running away. With her is chubby, gay Clarke, a bag of flour called Joan and a Walkman full of glorious '80s tunes.
Style: road movie, touching, teen, independent film, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teenage girl, high school, friendship, road trip, friends, female protagonist, on the road, honest, happy ending, sexpot, family problems ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1987
Place: usa, oklahoma, california
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A Boy and His Samurai (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A samurai from the Edo Period time travels to present day Japan where he meets a divorcee and her son. Soon, he discovers a passion for making pastries.
Style: sincere, captivating, feel good, humorous, sweet ...
Plot: boy, food, co worker co worker relationship, fish out of water, time travel, katana, cafe, confusion, culture clash, fall in love, cooking, disorder ...
Place: tokyo
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Swing Girls (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A tale of delinquent and lazy school girls. In their efforts to cut remedial summer math class, they end up poisoning and replacing the schools brass band.
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, teen, uplifting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: jazz, high school, hardcase students, japanese schoolgirl, summer school, friendship, against the odds, ambition, mischievous children, music band, youth, lifestyle ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Ghost World (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK, Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Two quirky, cynical teenaged girls try to figure out what to do with their lives after high school graduation. After they play a prank on an eccentric, middle aged record collector, one of them befriends him, which causes a rift in the girls' ...
Style: black comedy, thought provoking, independent film, melancholic, teen ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, age difference, friendship, adolescence, graduation, older man younger woman relationship, teenage girl, teenage life, blues, teen angst, best friend, youth ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, indiana, los angeles
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Wolf Girl and Black Prince (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Erika Shinohara (Fumi Nikaido) is a first year of high school student. While talking to friends, she makes up a story about her "boyfriend." In reality, Erika Shinohara doesn't have a boyfriend. Erika's friends soon begin to ...
Style: romantic, touching, sweet, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
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Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Rage in Placid Lake (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Placid Lake has always been different. As an odd fish in a sea of mediocrity, his brilliant ideas are bound to get him into more trouble than success. So when he finds himself flying off the school roof and breaking every bone in his body on ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, witty, cult classic, hilarious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: adolescent boy, coming of age, family relations, friendship, youth, eccentric family, teenage life, graduation, teenage boy, hippie, high school, boy ...
Place: australia
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Daddy Cool (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The story about the age gap between a scientist father, Philipe Le Tallec, and his newly discovered teen aged daughter, Eglantine.
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: family relations, parents and children, disorder, youth, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, estrangement, coming of age, scientist, daughter, social relations, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
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The Book of Caleb (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A comfortable underachiever and serial prankster, in the midst of their quarter life crisis, reunite against childhood enemies in a contemporary suburban epic.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, light ...
Audience: teens
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Genre: Comedy
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Duration: 90 min.
Story: Samy moves from the underdeveloped crime-ridden French suburb to the riches of Neuilly.
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, melancholic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, disorder, fish out of water, manners, teenage love, racism, interracial relations, misfit, fall in love, love and romance, family relations, teenage life ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, paris france
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51%
Wonderful World End (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Seventeen-year-old Shiori’s Gothic Lolita garb attracts a lot of fans to her interactive video blog, a stepping stone she hopes will launch her career as a model and actress. One day while handing out promotional pamphlets, she meets Ayumi, a ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, stylized, captivating, offbeat
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Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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51%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: To the average person, psychic abilities might seem a blessing; for Kusuo Saiki, however, this couldn't be further from the truth. Gifted with a wide assortment of supernatural abilities ranging from telepathy to x-ray vision, he finds this ...
Style: anime, light, parody, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: everyday life, supernatural, friendship, absurd humor, telepathy, love and romance, supernatural power, couples, psychokinesis, teenager, society, slice of life ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Instant Swamp (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: After being forced to resign from her publishing company job when her magazine goes out of circulation, office worker Haname Jinchoge (Kumiko Aso) is given the name of her real father-Noburo Jinchoge when her mother (Keiko Matsuzaka) falls into a ...
Style: humorous, captivating, feel good, light, entertaining ...
Plot: store, family relations, hopes, fall in love, optimism, parents and children, curses spells and rituals, friendship, follow your dream, antique dealer, rivalry, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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Superbad (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: High school best buddies are facing separation anxiety as they prepare to go off to college. While attempting to score alcohol for a party with help from a fake ID-toting friend, the guys' evening takes a turn into chaotic territory.
Style: sex comedy, teen sex comedy, hilarious, teen, humorous ...
Audience: teens, date night, boys' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: high school, teenager, nerd, coming of age, adolescence, youth, party, teenage life, dumb, friendship, loss of virginity, bromance ...
Time: 2000s, year 2007, near future, y2k, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, california, hawaii
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50%
Hating Alison Ashley (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Classmates Erica Yurgen and Alison Ashley vie with each other to become the undisputed star of their class.
Style: realistic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: coming of age, high school, single parent, high school life, power relations, family relations, youth, misfit, uninhibited rivalry, teenage life, sister sister relationship, brother sister relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: melbourne, australia
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50%
Sharp as Marbles (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Albert isn't the brightest bulb on the block. But that's okay, he's got his best friends, George and Ernie to help him out. Only problem, they're just as dumb as he is.
Style: humorous, not serious, light, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friends, misfit, youth, buddies, friendship, nothing goes right, odd couple, goofy hero, silly humor, fish out of water, escapades, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Harold (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A teenager with an early onset of male-pattern baldness befriends his high school's janitor.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating, indie film
Audience: teens
Plot: youth, loser, high school, teenage life, teenage love, social misfits, misfit, society, lifestyle, high school life, adolescence vs adulthood, teachers and students ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Moms' Night Out (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Yearning for an evening without their kids, some friends plan a night out. But to do this, their husbands need to watch the kids. What can go wrong?
Style: humorous, melancholic, sweet, funny, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, family friendly
Plot: christian, parenthood, pastor, parents and children, family relations, best friend, couples, nothing goes right, comedy of errors, parent child relationship, disorder, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Growing Up and Other Lies (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After living for years as a struggling artist in New York City, Jake is calling it quits and returning home to Ohio. On his last day in the city, he persuades his three oldest friends – Billy, Rocks and Gunderson – to help him retrace their ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, independent film ...
Plot: friendship, on the road, best friend, cause and meaning, buddies, painter, family relations, getting home, coming of age, art, thirtysomething life, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
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