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Still Walking (2008)
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Original name: 歩いても 歩いても
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Twelve years after their beloved eldest son, Junpei, drowned while saving a stranger's life, Kyohei and Toshiko welcome their surviving children home for a family reunion. Younger son Ryota still feels that his parents resent that he isn't the one who died; his new wife, Yukari, is awkwardly meeting the rest of the family for the first time. Daughter Chinami strains to fill the uncomfortable pauses with forced cheer.
Style:
contemplative, sincere, touching, realistic, philosophical, thought provoking, disturbing, poignant, art house, crying ...
Plot:
family reunited, family gatherings, family life, generation gap, bereavement, parents and children, reconciliation, dealing with death, old age, food, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, generation, love, grief, child, train, youth, death, summer, father, memory, dysfunctional family, asian, problem ...
Time:
2000s, year 2008, contemporary
Place:
japan, east asia, asia
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Most similar movies to Still Walking
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and sincere films with plots about family relations, family problems, parents and children, family life, bittersweet, dysfunctional family and father son relationship mostly in Drama, Comedy and Family genres. Some movies like Still Walking: Nobody Knows (2004), Like Father, Like Son (2013), I Wish (2011), Departures (2008), Our Little Sister (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.
Style:
touching, depressing, atmospheric, gloomy, bleak ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
poverty, childhood, children, young kid, child abandonment, dysfunctional family, brother brother relationship, innocence lost, responsibility, neglect, jailbait, family relations ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, east asia, asia, california ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth. He must make a life-changing decision and choose his true son or the boy he raised as his own.
Style:
touching, sincere, disturbing, psychological, poignant ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
family drama, family reunited, boy, parents and children, architect, parenthood, moral dilemma, father son relationship, self discovery, class differences, introspection, life turned upside down ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Two young brothers at opposite ends of Kyushu devise a magical plan to reunite their separated parents in Hirokazu Koreeda's benign and superbly acted picture of family life.
Style:
serious, touching, stylized, realistic, teen ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
youth, parents and children, train, brother brother relationship, desire, broken family, father son relationship, family problems, hopes, child, food, discovery ...
Time:
year 2011, 21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking he’s applying for a job at a travel agency he finds he’s being interviewed for work with departures of a ...
Style:
sad, philosophical, thought provoking, emotional, inspirational ...
Plot:
funeral, self discovery, father son relationship, pregnant wife, life philosophy, workplace, small town, character study, new job, small town life, classical music, musician ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A story that revolves around three sisters who live in their grandmother's home and the arrival of their 13-year-old half sister.
Style:
touching, sincere, realistic, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
teenage girl, sister sister relationship, food, orphan, teenager, japanese girl, family relations, stepsister stepsister relationship, sisters, funeral, responsibility, friendship ...
Time:
2010s, year 2015
Place:
japan
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
On the eighth anniversary of a cult's failed chemical attack on Tokyo and their subsequent mass suicide, family members of those affected gather at the cult's former base on the shores of a lake to observe the anniversary of their loved ...
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot:
destiny, supernatural, terrorism, danger, estrangement, haunted by the past, teenage life, death in the family, dealing with death, religions or cults, afterlife, suicide ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
24%
33K
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan, Japan
Duration: 173 min.
Story:
Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries.
Style:
philosophical, emotional, touching, art house, cerebral ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, wedding, first love, coma, love, children, elevator, regret, dysfunctional family, lovers reunited, couples, destiny ...
Time:
2000s, 90s
Place:
japan, east asia, asia, tokyo, taipei ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A young woman's husband apparently commits suicide without warning or reason, leaving behind his wife and infant. Yumiko remarries and moves from Osaka to a small fishing village, yet continues to search for meaning in a lonely world.
Style:
art house, atmospheric, contemplative, slow cinema, retro ...
Plot:
suicide, stepbrother stepsister relationship, death, arranged marriage, melancholy, self discovery, drinking, memory, sea, loss of husband, widow, water ...
Time:
90s, year 1995
Place:
japan, europe, venice, asia, italy ...
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
In this film director Yoji Yamada bows down before his teacher and role model. Yamada was assistant director on Yazujirō Ozu’s Tōkyō monogatari, a moving family portrait set after the Second World War. In his remake, Yamada has made very few ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
family life, parents and children, aging, beauty salon, elderly, siblings relations, couple relations, japanese schoolgirl, pretty girl, asian, old age, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
tokyo, japan, asia, east asia
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Drama about a family torn apart after the death of its patriarch. Haunted by their father's death, Jack and Elyssa have a fraught relationship with their remarried mother even now they have come of age.
Style:
emotional, contemplative, realistic, touching, psychological ...
Plot:
family relations, family problems, death in the family, parents and children, dysfunctional family, unfulfillment, estrangement, family gatherings, brother brother relationship, coming of age, family business, elderly lovers ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, Taiwan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Making her way through life by forming superficial relationships, Yoko (Japanese pop idol Yo Hitoto) keeps everyone at arm's length, whether it's her father (Nanji Kobayashi) and stepmother (Kimiko Yo) or Hajime (Tadanobu Asano), the owner ...
Style:
psychological, contemplative, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
pregnancy, love and romance, lifestyle, writer's life, youth, family life, friendship, food, mental disorder, train, single mother, bookstore ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
From the late 1950s through the '70s, more than 90,000 of the ethnic Koreans in Japan emigrated to North Korea, a country that promised them affluence, justice, and an end to discrimination. KAZOKU NO KUNI tells the story of one of their ...
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, sincere, gloomy ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, fish out of water, culture clash, family life, homecoming, society, family problems, terminal illness, parents and children, life is a bitch, under the surface, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, north korea, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Chile
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young boy returns to his birth country, Chile, after a long absence. The house in the country where he lived with his family is up for sale and they all gather to bid the place farewell. Their visit to the "magnetic tree", a local ...
Style:
contemplative, surreal, sentimental, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
family relations, family life, homecoming, parents and children, family gatherings, unfulfilled love, road not taken, love and romance, unfulfillment, siblings relations, family reunited, nostalgia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chile, latin america
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Shiro’s struggle with his father’s cancer and impending death leads to a realization that he must communicate his love and admiration for him before it’s too late. A series of flashbacks reveals their relationship over time, and the trouble ...
Style:
realistic, touching, contemplative, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot:
coping, family relations, redemption, terminal illness, parents and children, estrangement, unfulfillment, family in crisis, father son relationship, asian prostitute, family problems, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Ryota is an unpopular writer although he won a literary award 15 years ago. Now, Ryota works as a private detective. He is divorced from his ex-wife Kyoko and he has an 11-year-old son Shingo. His mother Yoshiko lives alone at her apartment. One ...
Style:
thought provoking, semi serious, sincere, melancholic, touching ...
Plot:
father son relationship, private detective, lottery ticket, writers, gambling, slice of life, novelist, money problems, easy woman, mother son relationship, storm, family relations ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
east asia, japan, india
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
Danny, dying of Aids, returns home for his last months. Always close to his mother, they share moments of openness that tend to shut out Danny's father and his sister.
Style:
contemplative, realistic, serious, sincere, gloomy ...
Plot:
aids, gay, lgbt, terminal illness, family relations, hiv, gay brother, gay son, bereavement, cancer, dying, childhood ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york state
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Part-time worker Hazuki lives with her younger sister, high school student Koharu, and their mother Sawa. One day they receive word that their estranged father is on his deathbed, so Sawa asks Hazuki and Koharu to visit him and take one last photo ...
Style:
touching, realistic, humorous, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot:
dark humor, family relations, youth, parents and children, siblings relations, father, absent father, father son relationship, travel, family problems, family reunited, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The siblings of the Fitzgerald family must decide if the dad who abandoned them 20 years ago can come home for Christmas. Can the big Irish clan get past their grievances to be a family again?
Style:
touching, sentimental, serious, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
christmas, holiday, family gatherings, family relations, estranged father, homecoming, sibling relationship, parents and children, brother sister relationship, siblings, xmas, christmas eve ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, ireland, long island
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When Adam Thornton learns that he only has a little time left, he decides that he wants to make peace with his family. Only problem is that most of his family are not exactly fond of him because he walked out on his wife and of his stubborn nature ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot:
christmas, holiday, christmas eve, in love, bondage, fall in love, terminal illness, family gatherings, family relations, siblings relations, parents and children, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
70s
Place:
columbus ohio, usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Robert Townsend stars as the patriarch of a family devastated when his wife is killed in a senseless auto accident. Reeling with grief, each family member must find courage and vision to carry on, ultimately eager to do the mother proud.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
family relations, family life, parents and children, family in crisis, youth, car accident, grief, accidental death, society, love, dealing with death, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, chicago
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Michelle Pfeiffer is ferocious in the role of a desperate mother whose 3-year-old son disappears during her high school reunion. Nine years later, by chance, he turns up in the town in which the family has just relocated. Based on Jacquelyn ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, melancholic, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
kidnapping, missing child, missing person, family drama, children, family relations, kidnapped, family life, parents and children, family problems, police detective, hostage ...
Time:
90s, year 1999
Place:
usa, chicago
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Summer 1966. It's time to enjoy the summer holiday, total freedom. Teenage Élise discovers that the sudden departure of her mother completely disrupts the family. Her brother Coco seeks solace in the garage, building a super racing car. Her ...
Style:
sexy, emotional, serious, realistic, disturbing ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
family relations, coming of age, youth, family life, estrangement, family problems, couples, love and romance, lifestyle, dysfunctional family, bittersweet, single parent ...
Time:
60s
Place:
canada
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A woman struggles to interact with her family and find her place in society after spending fifteen years in prison.
Style:
touching, realistic, sincere, psychological, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
family drama, redemption, prison, character study, physician, job seeking, honest, parenthood, complex characters, loss of son, sibling relationship, estrangement ...
Time:
year 2008, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 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, realistic, serious, thought provoking, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dysfunctional family, child abuse, family relations, youth, cons and scams, train, boy, abusive father, father son relationship, stepmother, abortion, treasure hunt ...
Time:
year 1969, 20th century, 60s
Place:
japan, hokkaido
Similarity:
18%
442
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Mother is dying and invites her family to spend a few days in a chalet in Austria. In the isolation of the snow-covered mountains, old wounds are reopened and the family ties crumble steadily through quarrels and irritations.
Style:
touching, emotional, realistic, semi serious, gloomy
Plot:
family relations, family life, family problems, infidelity, hidden truth, resentment, parents and children, family gatherings, terminal illness, unfulfillment, couples, secret ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
austria, europe
Similarity:
18%
115
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Chayo returns to her hometown to care for her elderly mother and cope with her death. Surrounded by love and sublime beauty, Chayo has to give up something that as a woman and mother is inalienable. That will be the price of her freedom.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, atmospheric, sincere ...
Plot:
family relations, family problems, parents and children, tradition, elderly, unfulfillment, death in the family, homecoming, female protagonist, day of the dead, mother daughter relationship, grandmother ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america
Similarity:
18%
845
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In a story weaving the past and present together, Emile seeks redemption from the family he abandoned.
Style:
serious, sincere, emotional, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
orphan, introspection, redemption, haunted by the past, homecoming, elderly, starting over, human nature, betrayal, hopes, family problems, dysfunctional family ...
Place:
england, europe, canada, british columbia
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.
Style:
visual, visually stunning, realistic, serious, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, father, autumn, slice of life, perfection, regret, minimalism, storytelling, widower, wedding, love and romance, aging ...
Time:
year 1962, 60s, 20th century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When her daughter Sara unexpectedly passes away, Natalie retreats to the summer home where she and Sara used to visit. Time with her best friends and some of Sara's friends help her deal with her loss.
Style:
serious, sincere, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
family problems, homecoming, dysfunctional family, tragic love, best friend, couples, single parent, orphan, hopes, life is a bitch, starting over, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Serenely resigned to his impending death but deeply afraid at the prospect of being cremated, an elderly carpenter seeks to have his last wishes carried out in this gentle, beautifully realized drama from director Li Ruijin. (TIFF)
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, realistic, poignant ...
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, family problems, death in the family, elderly, little girl, grandfather grandson relationship, grandfather granddaughter relationship, cousin cousin relationship, little boy, family drama, elderly man ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china
Similarity:
18%
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