Movies like Dear Summer Sister

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Dear Summer Sister (1972)
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Dear Summer Sister (1972)
Original name: 夏の妹
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Sunaoko come to Okinawa to find his brother Tsuruo. Her searching is not very painless because it tears up old wounds in complicated relationships, some of which date back to the horrors of war.
Plot: teenager, sea, rape, prostitute, police officer, youth, fishing, beach, hotel, vacation, singer, judge, teenage girl, family relations, singing, stepmother, fall in love, beer, girl, brother sister relationship, war veteran, brother, war crime, older man younger woman relationship, innocence ...
Place: okinawa japan

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Most similar movies to Dear Summer Sister

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, touching and captivating films with plots about family relations, teenage girl, youth, brother sister relationship, father son relationship, friendship and sex mostly in Drama, Comedy and Crime genres. Some movies like Dear Summer Sister: The Ceremony (1971), Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969), Sing a Song of Sex (1967), Autumn Moon (1992), So Much Water (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Ceremony (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to trace the rise and fall of militaristic Japan across several decades.
Style: spiritual, avant garde
Plot: funeral, spirit, sex, incest, post war japan, car crash, flashback, marriage, tradition, patriarch, colonialism, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 1940s, year 1971, 1950s, 60s
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95%
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: This is the story of a bookstore thief named Birdy, who is led through various adventures in Tokyo's Shinjuku district by salesgirl Umeko.
Style: avant garde, experimental, weird
Plot: sex, thief, bookstore, pink film, rape, male female relationship, breaking the fourth wall, dark humor, makeover, riot, theft, female nudity ...
Time: year 1969
Place: tokyo
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91%
Sing a Song of Sex (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Four sexually hungry high school students preparing for their university entrance exams meet up with an inebriated teacher singing bawdy drinking songs. This encounter sets them on a less than academic path.
Style: absurd, erotic, serious, realistic, stylized ...
Plot: university, rape, vietnam war, sex, youth, sexuality, politics, innocence lost, love and romance, society, high school life, college ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1967
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Autumn Moon (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A Japanese tourist, Tokio, meets a 15-year-old Hong Kong girl and her grandmother left behind in Hong Kong while their family emmigrates to Canada.
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: food, age-gap relationship, sex, autumn, restaurant, immigration, family relations, friendship, culture clash, immigrant, first time, grandparent grandchild relationship ...
Time: 90s, future
Place: hong kong, canada, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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So Much Water (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Uruguay, Mexico, Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A family vacation is bogged down by unrelenting rain, as a teenage girl and her divorced father try to find common ground.
Style: humorous, captivating, atmospheric, psychological, semi serious ...
Plot: father daughter relationship, family relations, teenager, parents and children, resort, confined, family problems, siblings relations, estrangement, hotel, coming of age, woman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: uruguay, latin america
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55%
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Glasses (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Harried and overworked, Taeko leaves the city for a much-needed island vacation. Stepping off a propeller plane onto golden sands, she drags her giant suitcase across the beach to Hamada Inn. Owner Yuji is impressed; it's the first time in ...
Style: humorous, psychological, disturbing, captivating, mind bending ...
Plot: beach, travel, vacation, food, identity crisis, female protagonist, crisis, relationship problems, island, social problems, stress, tropical island ...
Place: okinawa japan, okinawa
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All inclusive (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After finding out that her husband cheated on her, Lise and her two daughters Ditte and Sigrid decides to go on vacation to Malta. The two sisters are very different and tries to cheer the mother up in very different ways. All inclusive is a movie ...
Style: emotional, humorous, captivating, psychological, psychotronic
Plot: hotel, parent child relationship, vacation, divorce, mother daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, infidelity, love, family relations, friendship, slim, divorced woman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark
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44%
Speech & Debate (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Frustrated by the hypocrisy they see in their parents, teachers, and the entire school board, an unlikely trio set out to find a common truth and make their voices heard as they revive a defunct school club and take on the world.
Style: sexy, psychological, captivating, sincere, melancholic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gay, gay teenager, high school student, teenage girl, teenager, competition, father son relationship, teenage boy, teen angst, high school, gay bar, debate ...
Time: 21st century
Place: portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Measure of a Man (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A bullied teen experiences a turning point summer in which he learns to stand up for himself.
Style: humorous, captivating, sincere, light, independent film ...
Audience: family outing, teen drama
Plot: teenager, bullying, coming of age, summer job, first love, family relations, self discovery, grownups, society, couples, boyhood, teenage boy ...
Time: 70s, year 1976, 21st century
Place: usa, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Thunder Road (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Officer Arnaud raises his daughter as a love letter to his late Mom.
Style: humorous, sentimental, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: father daughter relationship, judge, police, lawyer, school, divorce, family relations, friendship, child custody, love and romance, couples, society ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: louisiana, usa, austin texas, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Boy (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A family of four lives off of scams in which they pretend to be injured by automobiles. After suffering an injury during the war, the father believes he is an invalid. He and his wife have a 10-year-old boy and a 3-year-old girl. The adults pretend ...
Style: experimental, serious, realistic, thought provoking, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: youth, family relations, child abuse, dysfunctional family, train, boy, treasure hunt, traumatic childhood, bad father, abusive father, father son relationship, stepmother ...
Time: year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place: japan, hokkaido
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35%
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Next of Kin (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Twenty-three-year old Peter Foster is an only child who lives at home, where he constantly hears his parents arguing. Because Peter does nothing all day, the family goes to a clinic where a therapist videotapes them. After Peter watches his tape, he ...
Style: independent film, serious, psychological, realistic
Plot: adoption, dysfunctional family, lonely, pretense, family relations, long lost son, psychosomatic illness, practical joke, brother sister relationship, birthday party, diary, heart attack ...
Time: 80s
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34%
Most People Live in China (2002)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Norway
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A movie inspired by eight Norwegian political parties, written by six writers and directed by nine directors: a man gets a nasty surprise skinny dipping, a cow eats a cell phone, a lesbian couple loses a child, a blind girl sells dubious lottery ...
Style: touching, suspense, contemplative, humorous, anthology
Plot: multiple storylines, family relations, fall in love, lesbian, teenage girl, politics, teenage boy, brother sister relationship, gay parent, swamp, adoption, love ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Death by Hanging (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A Korean man is sentenced to death by hanging, but he survives the execution. For the following two hours, his executioners try to work out how to handle the situation in this black farce.
Style: dark comedy, experimental, mind bending, psychedelic, surreal ...
Plot: surrealism, satire, death penalty, prison, immigrant, racism, refugee, social outcast, death row, japanese culture, trippy, murder ...
Time: year 1968, 50s
Place: japan, korea
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33%
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Hick (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A pistol-packing teen meets an unstable rebel and a cocaine-snorting drifter as she hitchhikes her way out West.
Style: touching, realistic, independent film, semi serious, captivating ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: teenage girl, hitchhiker, teenage runaway, on the road, nymphet, alcoholic, self discovery, teenage life, friendship, lolita, youth, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time: 70s, 80s, 21st century
Place: nebraska, oklahoma, usa, california
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33%
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Good Kids (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Four high school students look to redefine themselves after graduation.
Style: teen sex comedy, sexy, captivating, entertaining, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: party, graduation, sexual humor, coming of age, friendship, group of friends, teenage boy, teenager, friendship between men, rivalry, student, socially awkward ...
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100 Yen Love (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Slacker Ichiko gets into a fight with her younger sister and begins to live on her own, working the late shift at a 100 yen shop. On her way home, she passes a gym and meets middle-aged boxer Kano who trains there in silence...
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological, romantic
Plot: boxing, fired from the job, dating, motivation, slacker, loser, poverty, sparring, life is a bitch, love story, relationships, relationship problems ...
Place: tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Profound Desires of the Gods (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 173 min.
Story: Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori clan, to drill a well to power a sugar mill.
Style: captivating, erotic
Plot: time travel, asian, summer, pink film, japanese mythology, pacific island, brother sister relationship, remote island, tropical island, sexploitation, industrialization, fish ...
Time: year 1968
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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You'll Be a Man (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Leo is 10 and wise beyond his years. A solitary dreamer who seeks refuge in books. When the carefree 20-year-old Theo steps into his life, it forces Leo out of his shell. Despite their age difference, the two becomes best friends, helping each other ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, sentimental, touching
Plot: adult child friendship, youth, coming of age, family relations, parents and children, friends, friendship, adolescence vs adulthood, father son relationship, mental illness, teenager, babysitter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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31%
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Mullet (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Eddie returns to his home town on the south coast of New South Wales. Having left for the city without explanation a few years previously, he tries to pick up the pieces of his life and fit back in to the lives of those he left, including his ...
Style: touching, humorous, sentimental, sincere, talky ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: homecoming, small town, starting over, couples, family problems, love and romance, hopes, prodigy, family life, parents and children, eccentric family, weakness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, sydney australia
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31%
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Manny & Lo (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A pregnant teen and her younger sister run away from foster homes and kidnap a woman whom they believe can help with the pregnancy.
Style: humorous, road movie, feel good, cult classic, independent film ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: coming of age, kidnapping, teenage pregnancy, police, pregnancy, robbery, dream, adoption, girl power, child, hostage, on the road ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
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30%
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The Sea (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland, France, Norway
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Wealthy, aging patriarch Thordur assembles his scattered heirs in his remote Icelandic fishing village to discuss the future of the family fishery. But bringing everyone together unleashes a storm of long-repressed dark family secrets.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, clever, contemplative ...
Plot: favoritism among siblings, sexual abuse, dysfunctional family, fisherman, life is a bitch, family problems, family business, parents and children, family gatherings, family life, half brother half sister relationship, elderly ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iceland, europe, reykjavik iceland, paris france
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30%
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Rainbow Days (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Nijiiro Days follows the colorful lives and romantic relationships of four high school boys—Natsuki Hashiba, a dreamer with delusions of love; Tomoya Matsunaga, a narcissistic playboy who has multiple girlfriends; Keiichi Katakura, a kinky sadist ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, light, touching
Plot: teenage boy, group of friends, teenage girl, teenage life, best friend, family relations, youth, teenager, love and romance, friendship
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30%
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Rocket Science (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Hal, a 15-year-old high-school student with a minor yet socially alienating (and painful) disability: he stutters uncontrollably. Determined to work through the problem, Hal opts for an extreme route he joins the school debating team, which sends ...
Style: clever, sincere, psychological, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: high school, coming of age, debate, teenager, teenage love, dysfunctional family, friendship, teenage life, nothing goes right, contests and competitions, misfit, teacher ...
Time: 2000s, 20th century, year 2007, 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
My Little Sweet Pea (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: It isn't easy to find a dream to chase when you're young, but Mugiko (Maki Horikita) has one: she can't wait to become an anime voice actress. Saving up for classes while she works part time in a manga store, she lives with her older, ...
Style: captivating, entertaining, crying, manga
Plot: mother, mother daughter relationship, single mother, lie, brother sister relationship, parent child relationship, family relations, sick mother, mother child separation, parents and children, sick woman, comeback ...
Place: tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Man Who Left His Will on Film (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A metaphysical mystery involving a university student's camera getting stolen, and the thief then committing suicide. Looking back upon the event, the situation comes to be questioned if it happened at all.
Style: touching, psychological, weird
Plot: suicide, surrealism, revolt, exploitation, communist, sex scene, rape, female nudity, police, student, university, breaking the fourth wall ...
Place: tokyo
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29%
My Dad and Mr. Ito (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: He is rejected by his sister when the brother floats the idea that their father move from his house to her apartment. The father has other ideas however and shows up unannounced at her doorstep with his belongings. She has little space, a boyfriend ...
Style: captivating, light, sincere
Plot: parent child relationship, father daughter relationship, father and daughter, daughter, brother sister relationship, father, relationships, parents and children, living together, family relations, family life, family problems ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Pornographers (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society, and he uses the money to support his landlady, Haru, and her family. From time to time, Haru shares her bed with Subu, though she believes her dead ...
Style: surreal, dark comedy, psychedelic, erotic, mind bending ...
Plot: filmmaking, perversion, prostitution, adult film industry, sexuality, female robot, film industry, sex, family relations, sexual perversion, dark humor, porn ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The film talks about a family that weathers all sorts of disasters and keeps going in spite of it all. It is noted for its wonderful assortment of oddball characters.
Style: black comedy, humorous, offbeat, dark comedy, semi serious ...
Plot: hotel, incest, dysfunctional family, rape, brother sister sex, first sexual experience, prostitute, bare butt, airplane crash, lesbian, writers, cheerleader ...
Time: 80s
Place: vienna, new hampshire, europe, austria, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Margot at the Wedding (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Margot and her son Claude decide to visit her sister Pauline after she announces that she is getting married to less-than-impressive Malcolm. In short order, the storm the sisters create leaves behind a mess of thrashed relationships and exposed ...
Style: talky, depressing, melancholic, stylized, semi serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, wedding, nudity, complex characters, family relations, jealousy, character study, secrets, greed, confession, family problems, family gatherings ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa, long island, harvard university, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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