Movies like After the Storm

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After the Storm (2016)
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After the Storm (2016)
Original name: 海よりもまだ深く
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 day, Ryota, his ex-wife Kyoko, and son Shingo gather at Yoshiko's apartment. A typhoon passes and the family must stay there all night long.
Style: thought provoking, semi serious, sincere, touching, melancholic, art house, independent film, weird, cult film
Plot: father son relationship, lottery ticket, gambling, slice of life, writers, private detective, money problems, easy woman, storm, divorce, family relations, lie, bet, trust, divorced father, divorced parents, jealousy, professor, introspection, mother son relationship, teenager, food, asian, transformation, boyhood ...
Time: 2010s, contemporary
Place: east asia, japan, india
Keyword: flat

Most similar movies to After the Storm

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out crying, touching, sincere and realistic films with plots about family relations, food, restaurant, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, mother daughter relationship and cigarette smoking mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like After the Storm: Like Father, Like Son (2013), Still Walking (2008), Kamome Diner (2006), Sweet Bean (2015), The Truth (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Like Father, Like Son (2013)
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, disturbing, psychological, sincere, intense ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: family drama, family reunited, boy, parents and children, architect, father son relationship, family relations, self discovery, moral dilemma, introspection, identity crisis, life turned upside down ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
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100%
 7.9
 18K
Still Walking (2008)
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 ...
Style: serious, contemplative, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Plot: family reunited, family gatherings, family life, generation gap, bereavement, dealing with death, reconciliation, parents and children, old age, generation, father daughter relationship, love ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s
Place: japan, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 7.2
 3K
Kamome Diner (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Where are we welcome? On a quiet street in Helsinki, Sachie has opened a diner featuring rice balls. For a month she has no customers. Then, in short order, she has her first customer, meets Midori, a gangly Japanese tourist, and invites her to stay ...
Style: semi serious, touching, sentimental, atmospheric, humorous ...
Plot: food, cooking and food, diner, starting over, friendship, restaurant, hopes, small business, cafe, lifestyle, workplace situations, social relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: finland, japan, europe, helsinki finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 7.4
 13K
Sweet Bean (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, France, Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Sentaro runs a small bakery that serves dorayaki pastries filled with sweet red bean paste (“an”). When an old lady, Tokue, offers to help in the kitchen he reluctantly accepts. She will soon prove to have magic in her hands…
Style: culinary, sincere, melancholic, touching, thought provoking ...
Plot: cooking, restaurant, small business, street vendor, chef, old woman, meaning of life, disability, old age, elderly woman, food, employer employee relationship ...
Time: year 2015
Place: japan, indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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 6.5
 8K
The Truth (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Japan, Switzerland
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Fabienne is a star; a star of French cinema. She reigns amongst men who love and admire her. When she publishes her memoirs, her daughter Lumir returns from New York to Paris with her husband and young child. The reunion between mother and daughter ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, sincere
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: family relations, mother, redemption, couples, autobiography, adaptation, family problems, love, teenage girl, youth, mother daughter conflict, film set ...
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.8
 3K
Oh Lucy! (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A lonely, chain-smoking office lady in Tokyo falls for her teacher when she decides to take English lessons. When her teacher disappears, she sets out on a journey to find him.
Style: road movie, psychological, cult classic, crying, weird ...
Plot: aeroplane, harlot, wench, boobs, suicide, suicide attempt, horny, love, train, hotel, loneliness, infidelity ...
Time: year 2017
Place: tokyo, california, los angeles, san diego california, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Pecoross' Mother and Her Days (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Laid-back baby boomer Yuichi (Ryo Iwamatsu) is a middle-aged manga artist and singer-songwriter when he isn't at his salaryman day job or watching out for his elderly mother. Suffering from increasing dementia since her husband's death, ...
Style: captivating, realistic, sincere, humorous, thought provoking ...
Plot: old age, dementia, widow, social worker, death, memory loss, poverty, everyday life, family relations, parents and children, nursing, social problems ...
Place: east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 8.0
 31K
Nobody Knows (2004)
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: depressing, touching, serious, atmospheric, bleak ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: childhood, poverty, dysfunctional family, boy, young kid, innocence lost, children, child abandonment, brother brother relationship, tragedy, coming of age, family relations ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Midnight Diner (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Every night, Master (Kaoru Kobayashi) is busy with customers at the restaurant he runs. He has a worried face, looking at the funerary urn which someone left at his restaurant. His customers also talk about the funerary urn.
Style: independent film
Plot: food, chef, restaurant, diner, unrequited love, cookery, backpacking, humanity, inspiration, cooking, wench, life lesson ...
Place: tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.4
 8K
I Wish (2011)
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, brother brother relationship, train, broken family, father son relationship, family problems, hopes, desire, child, separated parents, discovery ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.2
 2K
Bunny Drop (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Daikichi learns that his recently deceased grandfather has an illegitimate daughter with an unknown mother. The girl's name is Rin and she is just 6 years old. Everybody in Daikichi's family looks at the girl as an embarrassment and wants ...
Style: anime, sincere, sentimental, light, captivating ...
Plot: little girl, adoption, parents and children, uncle niece relationship, orphan, everyday life, single father, couples, death of grandfather, friendship, young man, superhero ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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 ⇓
34%
 7.1
 3K
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 ⇓
34%
 6.5
 8K
Lonesome Jim (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Failing to make it on his own, 27-year-old Jim moves back in with his parents and deals with crippling family obligations.
Style: touching, emotional, stylized, sincere, humorous ...
Plot: small town, dysfunctional family, coma, single parent, homecoming, alienation, introspection, writers, love and romance, hopes, life is a bitch, couple relations ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: indiana, usa, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Squid and the Whale (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980's.
Style: depressing, talky, sincere, dark comedy, absurd ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: divorce, coming of age, dysfunctional family, father son relationship, infidelity, teenager, adultery, marriage, boy, crumbling marriage, childhood, adolescence ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 2005, near future, 2000s
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.9
 2K
Rent-a-Cat (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A single woman runs a rent-a-cat service to provide companions for lonely people.
Style: atmospheric, captivating, sincere, touching, humorous ...
Plot: pets, introspection, loneliness, summer, asian, japanese woman, small business, disorder, singleness, life turned upside down, cat, neighbor neighbor relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.6
 2K
Hana (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min.
Story: In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge the death of his father. He isn't an accomplished swordsman however, and he prefers sharing the life of the residents, teaching the kids how to ...
Style: serious, atmospheric, captivating, humorous
Plot: samurai, revenge, heroes, moral dilemma, introspection, rivalry, medieval, dark humor, dealing with death, edo period, japanese history, clan ...
Time: 18th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 7.1
 39K
The Savages (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
Style: sentimental, realistic, independent film, compassionate, emotional ...
Plot: midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, mental illness, father daughter relationship, redemption, character study, family relations, childhood, parents and children, nursing, siblings relations, cheerleader ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 90s, 21st century
Place: arizona, poland, new york, usa, phoenix arizona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Bread of Happiness (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A couple decide to relocate from Tokyo to the northern island of Hokkaido where they settle and establish a bakery and café called Mani. One cooks. The other bakes. Everyone walks out happy.
Style: atmospheric, semi serious, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: restaurant, food, hobby, marriage, love, family relations, cooking, revelation, bittersweet, family problems, hospitality, life philosophy ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The Graceful Brute (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A son hoards money stolen from the talent agency employing him, but his efforts are in vain when the money goes missing under odd circumstances.
Plot: casino, gambling, immorality, family relations, taxes, smoking, absurdism, accountant, debt, embezzlement, mistress, greed ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 7.1
 2K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
What a Wonderful Family! 3: My Wife, My Life (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story: At the Hirata home, three generations of their family live together. A crisis ensues when one afternoon, housewife Fumie falls asleep and wakes up to find a thief has stolen her secret money she kept hidden in the refrigerator.
Style: captivating, crying
Plot: brawl, marital argument, husband wife relationship, husband wife estrangement, secret, relationship problems, family conflict, family problems, life is a bitch, family relations, conflict, cleaning ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Introducing the Dwights (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The shy son of an aging comedienne tries to find a balance between his demanding home life, his new girlfriend, and his mother's second chance at fame.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental, feel good ...
Plot: single parent, disability, family relations, family life, parents and children, eccentric family, youth, divorced parents, sexual relations, siblings relations, mentally challenged, misfit ...
Time: year 2007
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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 7.9
 86K
Shoplifters (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story: After one of their shoplifting sessions, Osamu and his son come across a little girl in the freezing cold. At first reluctant to shelter the girl, Osamu’s wife agrees to take care of her after learning of the hardships she faces. Although the ...
Style: independent film, sexual, art house, thought provoking, art film ...
Audience: date night, teens, adult
Plot: poverty, shoplifting, father son relationship, social realism, poor family, family drama, secret, theft, domestic abuse, beach, child abduction, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 2010s, near future
Place: tokyo, east asia, japan, nebraska, sarajevo
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 7.2
 108K
St. Vincent (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A young boy whose parents just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic, war veteran who lives next door.
Style: realistic, feel good, witty, entertaining, inspirational ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: friendship, coming of age, youth, bullying, teacher, neighbor, storytelling, redemption, happy ending, character study, family relations, parents and children ...
Time: 2010s, y2k, year 2014, year 1965, year 1946 ...
Place: new york, peru, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 7.6
 3K
Happy Hour (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 317 min.
Story: Jun, Akari, Sakurako and Fumi truly believe that they can confide in each other. But one day, at a party, Jun confesses that she is seeking a divorce from her husband and this information seems to upset the other three. They follow her trial as she ...
Style: captivating, sentimental, melancholic, exciting, feel good ...
Plot: slutty wife, sluttiness, wench, harlot, abusive wife, slutty attitude, narcissistic woman, narcissism, promiscuous woman, divorce, infidelity, premarital sex ...
Time: future, 2010s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 7.6
 31K
Mr. Church (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fifteen years.
Style: sad, compassionate, sentimental, melancholic, emotional ...
Plot: african american, friendship, cooking, childhood, life, cancer, food, relationships, family bonds, loneliness, idealism, love story ...
Time: 70s, year 1986, year 1980, year 1971, year 1977 ...
Place: usa, boston, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.7
 4K
Happenstance (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: How, thanks to what's known as the "Butterfly theory" (a random series of unlinked events), can a young woman and a young man meet?
Style: melancholic, stylized, feel good, touching, humorous ...
Plot: coincidence, butterfly effect, chance meeting, chaos, love and romance, couples, couple relations, old woman, stranger, destiny, suicide attempt, multiple storylines ...
Time: 90s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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 ⇓
32%
 7.6
 14K
After Life (1998)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: After death, people have just one week to choose only a memory to keep for eternity.
Style: philosophical, surreal, emotional, spiritual, existential ...
Plot: afterlife, eternity, death, memory, heaven and hell, life after death, life & death, heaven, videotaping, destiny, hospital, childhood ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century
Place: the philippines, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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