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Hal (2013)
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Original name: ハル
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
Kurumi’s heart was broken by the sudden death of her boyfriend in a tragic airplane accident. By melding futuristic technology with the binary equivalent of human emotion, a brilliant scientist created an ultra-lifelike robotic surrogate to take Hal’s place – and lure Kurumi from her shroud of solitude.
Style:
anime, sentimental, touching, serious, futuristic, sad, clever
Plot:
couples, artificial intelligence, love affair, androids and robots, love and romance, haunted by the past, couple relations, repressed memory, robot, reincarnation, androids, heartbreak, imaginary, supportive spouse, bittersweet, dealing with death, exploding airplane, human android relationship, grief, flashback, loss of son, romance
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
japan
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Most similar movies to Hal
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, serious, adult animation and touching films with plots about love and romance, youth, imaginary, coming of age, androids and robots, danger and escapades mostly in Animation, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Hal: 5 Centimeters Per Second (2007), Children Who Chase Lost Voices (2011), Hello World (2019), The Garden of Words (2013), Fireworks (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 63 min.
Story:
Takaki and Akari are two classmates in elementary school. During their time together they have become close friends. Their relationship is tested when Akari moves to another city because of her parents' jobs. Both of them struggle to keep their ...
Style:
depressing, anime, touching, emotional, scenic ...
Audience:
kids, date night, teen drama
Plot:
love and romance, life philosophy, coming of age, relationships, lovers apart, young lovers, teenage love, nostalgia, hopes, love story, love, friendship ...
Time:
2000s, 20th century, future, 90s, 21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
The film centers on Asuna, a young girl who spends her solitary days listening to the mysterious music emanating from the crystal radio she received from her late father as a memento. One day while walking home she is attacked by a fearsome monster ...
Style:
anime, touching, sentimental, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
dealing with death, parallel world, imaginary, radio, myth, teenage life, escape attempt, mountain, rescue, life & death, spirit, supernatural ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Year 2027, The city of Kyoto has undergone tremendous advancement. Within the city lives Naomi Katagaki, an introvert and Ruri Ichigyou, a girl with a cold personality. Both shares love for reading books. Despite having similar interests, Naomi is ...
Style:
anime, futuristic, colorful, humorous, touching ...
Plot:
time travel, school, teenage love, love and romance, virtual world, friendship, saving a life, self doubt, fantasy world, parallel world, alternate reality, time loop ...
Time:
near future, 2020s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 46 min.
Story:
Takao, who is training to become a shoemaker, skipped school and is sketching shoes in a Japanese-style garden. He meets a mysterious woman, Yukino, who is older than him. Then, without arranging the times, the two start to see each other again and ...
Style:
anime, touching, sweet, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Audience:
date night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
rain, shoemaker, youth, overcoming, unlikely couple, age difference, young lovers, teenage life, grownups, relationships, shyness, older woman younger man relationship ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
tokyo, japan, asia
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86%
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Schoolchildren Norimichi, Yuusuke, and Junichi want to know if fireworks look round or flat from the side. They make a plan to find the answer at a fireworks display, while Nazuna schemes to run away with Norimichi or Yuusuke, whoever wins at the ...
Style:
anime, feel good, exciting, light, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
beach, lighthouse, summer, teenage love, high school, alternate timeline, teenage girl, seaside, running away from home, teenager, mother daughter relationship, male friendship ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A year has passed since Menma's ghostly return to the Super Peace Busters. Although the time they spent together during that summer was short, the five members reminisce about what happened as they each write a letter to their lost friend.
Style:
anime, psychological, emotional, serious, sentimental ...
Plot:
friendship, unrequited love, supernatural, love triangle, ghost, teenage love, teenage life, high school life, fall in love, youth, haunted by the past, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In an underground world where tunnels extend everywhere, even though they live in dark and confined spaces, people wear protective clothes and lead quiet and enjoyable lives. Patema, a princess in her underground village, loves to explore the ...
Style:
anime, semi serious, captivating, manga, colorful ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
friendship, steampunk, self discovery, dystopia, imaginary, love and romance, culture clash, conspiracy, fighting the system, escapades, investigation, good versus evil ...
Time:
future, 2010s
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Clannad is set in a high-school located in some Japanese town. Okazaki Tomoya is a third-year student who doesn't take his studies seriously. Always late for class, he's seen as a delinquent by the rest of his classmates who are busy ...
Style:
anime, touching, emotional, sincere, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
friendship, love and romance, teenage life, youth, broken dream, friend, male female relationship, family relations, school club, dream world, theater, surrealism ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The story takes place in a alternate postwar period, in 1996, where Japan is divided. Hokkaido is ruled by the "Union" while Honshu and other southern islands are under US authority. A tall tower was built on Hokkaido, which could even be ...
Style:
anime, serious, manga, adult animation, suspense ...
Plot:
friendship, coma, true love, teenage life, youth, apocalypse, haunted by the past, danger, life is a bitch, dystopian future, young love, passion ...
Time:
future, 90s, year 1999, year 1996
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Phoenix 2772 starts with twelve minutes without dialogue, much like a silent film, recalling the birth and education of Godo. In this brave new world, children are born in test tubes and are raised by computers and robots. Godo learns the skills ...
Style:
anime, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, adult animation
Audience:
kids
Plot:
giant bird, dystopian future, imaginary, space and aliens, escapades, danger, fall in love, androids and robots, heroes, save the world, gift, spaceship ...
Time:
future
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A long time ago, a winged maiden was held prisoner in a castle - cursed never to experience love, lest she die. Centuries later, in a sleepy coastal town, a young girl relives this agony.
Style:
anime, sincere, touching, emotional, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage love, impossible love, magic, summer, imaginary, social relations, youth, teenage life, tragic love, family relations, unfulfillment, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
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Tokyo is abuzz with persocoms – humanoid computers that are virtually perfect. The socially and technologically inept Hideki is dying to get his hands on one. When he finds Chi abandoned in the trash, she’s cuter than any current model he’s ...
Style:
anime, touching, sexual, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
love and romance, fall in love, teaching the ways of the world, student life, follow your dream, youth, robot, friendship, androids and robots, campus, cyborgs, tenderness ...
Time:
future
Place:
tokyo, asia
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Animation, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Groundbreaking director Mamoru Oshii continues to push the boundaries of art and anime with this universally acclaimed cyber thriller following cyborg detective Batou as he tries to unravel the reasons for a murderous robot revolt in the year 2032. ...
Style:
futuristic, philosophical, adult animation, cyber, atmospheric ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
cyberpunk, cyborgs, artificial intelligence, androids and robots, distopia, androids, investigation, robot, hacker, ghost in the shell, technology, computers and web ...
Time:
future, 2030s, 21st century
Place:
japan, taiwan, hong kong, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Naomi Armitage and Ross Sylibus have changed their names and live with their daughter Yoko as a happy and normal family on Mars — until an android riot breaks out at an anti-matter plant on Earth.
Style:
anime, stylized, serious, suspenseful, adult anime ...
Audience:
toddlers, boys' night
Plot:
androids and robots, mars, ghost, robot, dystopian future, good versus evil, artificial intelligence, haunted by the past, chaos and mayhem, apocalypse, master villain, terrorism ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Story:
Junjou Romantica: Pure Romance, stylized as Junjou Romantica ~Pure Romance~, is a yaoi series by Shungiku Nakamura. It focuses on three storylines; the main couple, which comprises the bulk of the books, and two other male couples that provide ...
Style:
anime, sexy, yaoi, touching, emotional ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
gender, couple relations, couples, gay, love affair, boys love, gay relationship, love and romance, love triangle, angst, lgbt, slice of life ...
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
The year is 2030. Six months passed since the Laughing Man Incident was solved. About 3 million refugees are living in Japan, invited to fill the labor shortage. However, the emergent presence of the invited-refugees intensified their confrontation ...
Style:
anime, serious, suspenseful, exciting, cyber ...
Plot:
androids and robots, computer, terrorism, cyberpunk, ghost in the shell, artificial intelligence, battles, chaos, danger, heroes, rivalry, imaginary ...
Time:
future
Place:
japan, taiwan
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 55 min.
Story:
Posing as lovers on vacation, Motoko and Batou work to try to stop a terrorist organization whose symbol is the Scrasath. Meanwhile, Togusa investigates a murder of a man who possessed a prosthetic leg manufactured by the Mermaid's Leg ...
Style:
anime, serious, suspenseful, rough, exciting ...
Plot:
androids and robots, cyberpunk, terrorism, ghost in the shell, fighting crime, special agent, partner, artificial intelligence, murder, imaginary, danger, undercover ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
28%
745
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 61 min.
Story:
Misuzu Moritani is an introvert who has always had difficulty interacting with her classmates, quickly becoming flustered whenever someone tries to talk to her. Sometimes, she will use her ability to stop time for three minutes to escape troublesome ...
Style:
yuri, anime, sexy, romantic, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
lovers, lesbian couple, lesbian romance, lesbian, female protagonist, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, love, lesbian interest, young lovers, fall in love, slice of life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
It is 300 years into the future. Earth's environment had been devastated by mankind's own foolish plans and humankind is beleaguered by the sentient forests which they have awoken. The world balance is tipped when a young boy named Agito ...
Style:
anime, serious, manga, apocalyptic, exciting ...
Plot:
time travel, heroic mission, heroes, dystopia, apocalypse, chaos, escapades, danger, imaginary, dystopian future, artificial intelligence, distopia ...
Time:
future, 24th century, distant future
Place:
seattle
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An anthology of various tales told in various styles with robots being the one common element among them.
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, mecha, exciting, anime ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
giant robot, androids and robots, character study, multiple storylines, crime gone awry, robot, man versus machine, escapades, robot as menace, cyberpunk, imaginary, artificial intelligence ...
Time:
future, year 1987
Place:
japan, east asia, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 18 min.
TV show
Story:
The future, probably Japan. Robots have long been put into practical use, and androids have just come into use. Influenced by the Robot Ethics Committee, it's become common sense for people to treat androids like household appliances. Their ...
Style:
adult animation, anime, captivating, psychological, futuristic ...
Plot:
slice of life, androids, artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, robot, human android relationship, problem, social problems, life, female android, androids and robots, investigation ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
japan
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Animation, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
One year after the events of the anime, Rintarou begins to feel the repercussions of extensive time travel, and eventually completely fades from reality. Kurisu, being the only companion to remember him, now must find a way to bring him back.
Style:
anime, mind bending, psychological, stylized, serious ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
time travel, time machine, impossible love, sent to the past, mad scientist, existence paradox, love and romance, love affair, tragic love, parallel world, imaginary, changing the past or future ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A young girl had her voice magically taken away so that she would never hurt people with it, but her outlook changes when she encounters music and friendship. Will Naruse be able to convey the anthem of her heart?
Style:
anime, sincere, touching, psychological, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
school, friendship, mute, healing, love and romance, high school, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, teenager, coming of age, youth, high school life ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Universal Century 0087, as the civil war between the AEUG and the Titans continues, Kamille meets a mysterious girl named Four. But his encounter with Four, one of the Titans' "cyber-Newtypes," fills his heart with anguish. The ...
Style:
anime, suspenseful, futuristic, stylized, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
battles, heroic mission, tragic love, rivalry, good versus evil, danger, heroes, escapades, love and romance, collision, mobile suit gundam, special agent ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Universal Century 0087. The Titans, a bellicose faction among the Earth Federation Forces, grows powerful and tyrannical, even using poison gas to suppress a civil unrest. Dissident soldiers from the same military stand against them, forming a ...
Style:
anime, rough, exciting, suspenseful, futuristic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
battles, heroic mission, good versus evil, rivalry, heroes, danger, battle zone, chaos, escapades, space and aliens, uninhibited rivalry, space station ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
Natsuo is a high school boy who is experiencing the crushing despair of unrequited love. To make matters worse, the person he is in love with is his teacher, Hina. In an attempt to lift his spirits, he attends a mixer where he meets a girl named ...
Style:
anime, touching, sincere, hentai, tense ...
Plot:
youth, love triangle, couple relations, half brother half sister relationship, sex, school, love, fall in love, rivalry, love and romance, teacher student relationship, female nudity ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
27%
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:
slice of life, post apocalyptic, dystopia, dystopian future, children, humanity, vestiges of humanity, ruins, desolation, lonely, post war, bittersweet ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Tono Kaoru heard a rumor: The laws of space and time mean nothing to the Urashima Tunnel. If you find it, walk through and you'll find your heart's desire on the other side...in exchange for years of your own life. On the night Kaoru just ...
Style:
anime, psychological, captivating, thrilling, romantic ...
Plot:
tunnel, school, adolescence, couples, relationships, love and romance, romantic friendship, legend, high school, love affair, couple relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
After marrying the head of the military, Benio hears her husband died in Siberia during a war. However after finding out he's alive and fighting against his home land, Benio starts looking for her first love. Wondering why he didn't return ...
Style:
anime, psychological, disturbing, captivating, shoujo
Plot:
relationship problems, love story, relationships, husband wife relationship, marriage, ex husband ex wife relationship, family relations, breakup, tragic love, male female relationship, romantic triangle, ex couple relations ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Animation, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
Rihito Sajo, an honor student with a perfect score on the entrance exam and Hikaru Kusakabe, in a band and popular among girls, would have never crossed paths. Until one day they started talking at the practice for their school’s upcoming chorus ...
Style:
anime, yaoi, touching, sincere, light ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
love and romance, couple relations, coming of age, couples, gay, fall in love, youth, musician, love, boys love, male male relationship, high school ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
27%
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