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From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)
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Original name: コクリコ坂から
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, History, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The story is set in 1963 in Yokohama. Kokuriko Manor sits on a hill overlooking the harbour. A 16 year-old girl, Umi, lives in that house. Every morning she raises a signal flag facing the sea. The flag means “I pray for safe voyages”. A 17 year-old boy, Shun, always sees this flag from the sea as he rides a tugboat to school. Gradually the pair are drawn to each other but they are faced with a sudden trial. Even so, they keep going without running from facing the hardships of reality.
Style:
touching, anime, sentimental, sweet, emotional, romantic, talky, serious, manga, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids, teen drama
Plot:
high school, destiny, friendship, teenage life, love and romance, teenage love, happy ending, self discovery, twists and turns, high school life, relationships, heartwarming, teenager, mother daughter relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, sister sister relationship, cooking, coming of age, love, korean war, inspiration, thoughtful, post war japan, dead father, heroes ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1963, 2010s, 1960s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia, england
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, touching, manga and epic films with plots about friendship, coming of age, love, teenager, youth, fantasy world and storytelling mostly in Animation, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like From Up on Poppy Hill: Whisper of the Heart (1995), When Marnie Was There (2014), Ocean Waves (1993), Only Yesterday (1991), I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Audience:
teens, family outing, pre-teens, kids, family friendly ...
Plot:
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Place:
japan, tokyo, europe, asia, italy
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, anime, emotional, sentimental, psychological ...
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family outing, kids, chick flick, teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan, hokkaido, asia, england, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
At Kichijōji Station, Tokyo, Taku Morisaki glimpses a familiar woman on the platform opposite boarding a train. Later, her photo falls from a shelf as he exits his apartment before flying to Kōchi Prefecture. Picking it up, he looks at it briefly ...
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
It’s 1982, and Taeko is 27 years old, unmarried, and has lived her whole life in Tokyo. She decides to visit her family in the countryside, and as the train travels through the night, memories flood back of her younger years: the first immature ...
Style:
touching, atmospheric, sentimental, melancholic, serious ...
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kids, date night, girls' night, adult
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Spring time in April and the last of the cherry blossoms are still in bloom. The usually aloof bookworm with no interest in others comes across a book in a hospital waiting room. Handwritten on the cover are the words: "Living with Dying." ...
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japan
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Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
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japan, seattle, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
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Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II fighter plane.
Style:
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Audience:
kids, family friendly, teens
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Place:
japan, germany, asia, tokyo
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71%
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When 17-year-old Makoto Konno gains the ability to, quite literally, "leap" backwards through time, she immediately sets about improving her grades and preventing personal mishaps. However, she soon realises that changing the past ...
Style:
anime, touching, feel good, humorous, manga ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot:
time travel, high school, supernatural ability, friendship, classmate, teenage girl, coming of age, school, changing the past or future, friends, love, teenage love ...
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body, and he in hers. This bizarre occurrence continues to happen randomly, and the two must ...
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Audience:
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Time:
year 2016, year 2013, 2020s, 2010s
Place:
tokyo, japan, east asia
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 63 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
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Story:
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Story:
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100%
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Country: Japan
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Story:
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teens, kids
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2010s
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japan
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Country: Japan
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family outing, family friendly, kids, adult
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Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Country: Japan
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Story:
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Audience:
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Story:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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japan, east asia, asia, tokyo
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Country: China, Japan
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
2010s
Place:
japan, china, shanghai
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67%
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 46 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Country: Japan
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Story:
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japan, asia, seattle, tokyo
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Similarity:
100%
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
japan
Similarity:
27%
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Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Story:
Hachiman Hikigaya is an antisocial high school student with no friends or girlfriend and as a result has a distorted view on life. When he sees his classmates talking excitedly about their adolescent lives, he mutters, "They're a bunch of ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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japan
Similarity:
27%
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Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
anime, psychological, emotional, serious, sentimental ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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