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Barefoot Gen 2 (1986)
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Original name: はだしのゲン２
Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Three years after the Hiroshima bombing, a teenager helps a group of orphans to survive and find their new life.
Style:
anime, political, disturbing, adult animation
Plot:
radiation sickness, starvation, nuclear holocaust, bombing, post apocalyptic, nuclear disaster, virus outbreak, post war, teenager, children, radiation, american soldier, hunger, child abuse, death of child, grave, black market, death of mother, skeleton, ruins, building a house, licking, nuclear radiation, constitution, nuclear fallout ...
Place:
hiroshima japan, japan
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, adult animation, disturbing and captivating films with plots about friendship, teenager, coming of age, death, biopic, family relations and war mostly in Animation, Drama and War genres. Some movies like Barefoot Gen 2: In This Corner of the World (2016), Grave of the Fireflies (1988), When the Wind Blows (1986), Planetarian: Hoshi no Hito (2016), Crulic - The Path to Beyond (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Animation, Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Newlywed Suzu Urano moves to her new life in Kure City on the coast of Hiroshima Prefecture, where she perseveres through World War II with pluck and determination.
Style:
anime, adult animation, thought provoking, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A powerful statement against war, Barefoot Gen is a story about the effect of the atomic bomb on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people. Based on the acclaimed manga by Nakazawa Keiji, the author of Barefoot Gen, who was 6 years old ...
Style:
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Audience:
kids
Plot:
world war two, nuclear holocaust, anti war, bombing, disaster, atomic bomb, radioactivity, radiation sickness, nuclear, burned alive, atrocity, demolished city ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
japan, asia, hiroshima japan
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Genre: Animation, Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no ...
Style:
touching, depressing, anime, sad, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
world war two, hunger, orphan, war, homelessness, survival, siblings relations, children, desperation, death of child, boy, anti war ...
Time:
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Place:
japan, east asia, asia, tokyo
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Genre: Animation, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack, unaware that times and the nature of war have changed from their romantic memories of World War II
Style:
adult animation, depressing, apocalyptic, disturbing, realistic ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The film adapts and expands the Planetarian visual novel by Key. The story is set in a dystopian future where biological and nuclear warfare has left a once prosperous civilization in complete ruin. The film tells the story of an old man travelling ...
Style:
anime, entertaining, captivating, disturbing, futuristic ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Documentary, Animation, Biography, Drama
Country: Romania, Poland
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
poland
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
japan, asia, seattle
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min.
Story:
Aki isn’t a brave little boy, but he’s dedicated nonetheless to safeguarding his sickly, mute friend Fuyu. They and their little gang live deep underground, in the concrete warrens to which survivors have fled following the eruption of Mt. Fuji. ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, suspense, apocalyptic, anime
Plot:
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Place:
japan, mount fuji
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Animation, Drama, History, War
Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Cambodia
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Cambodia, once the ancient kingdom of Funan, April 17th, 1975. The entire country falls under the tyranny of Angkar, the communist party of the Khmer Rouge. The cities are abandoned, the population is thrown to the roads and forced to walk towards ...
Style:
adult animation, anime, disturbing, exciting, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, communism, struggle for survival, khmer rouge, separation from family, little boy, husband wife relationship, leech, cambodian civil war, teenager, labor camp, starvation ...
Time:
70s, 2010s, year 1977, year 1975, year 1978 ...
Place:
cambodia
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
An American scientist constructs a laser satellite with hopes of preventing any nuclear conflicts from occurring. However, after a fatal error from both the US and the USSR governments, war breaks out and humanity faces a new bloodshed.
Style:
anime, apocalyptic, tense, grim, bleak ...
Plot:
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Time:
80s, near future
Place:
usa, ussr, west germany, moscow russia, middle east ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama
Country: Singapore
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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adult animation, realistic, touching, serious, stylized ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan, asia
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Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
20%
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Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
anime, realistic, touching, emotional, serious ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 55 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan
Similarity:
19%
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Country: UK, Japan, Ireland, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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anime, thought provoking, spiritual, philosophical, disturbing ...
Plot:
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Place:
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19%
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Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
19%
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Country: Japan
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Plot:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Place:
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Story:
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Story:
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