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Future War 1986 (1982)
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Future War 1986 (1982)
Original name: FUTURE WAR 198X年
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 125 min.
Story: An American scientist constructs a laser satellite with hopes of preventing any nuclear conflicts from occurring. However, after a fatal error from both the US and the USSR governments, war breaks out and humanity faces a new bloodshed.
Style: anime
Plot: world war three, nuclear holocaust, post apocalyptic, nuclear war, cold war, space shuttle, post apocalypse, nuclear, world
Time: 80s
Place: japan, moscow russia, middle east, usa, germany, tokyo, washington d.c. ...

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, captivating, futuristic and serious films with plots about friendship, teenager, space wars, love, battles, teenage life and love and romance mostly in Animation, Drama and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Future War 1986: Barefoot Gen 2 (1986), Orange: Future (2016), Ocean Waves (1993), Hal (2013), When the Wind Blows (1986). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Barefoot Gen 2 (1986)
Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Three years after the Hiroshima bombing, a teenager helps a group of orphans to survive and find their new life.
Style: anime, disturbing, political
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Place: hiroshima japan, japan
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Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
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Style: anime, captivating, rough, suspenseful, touching
Plot: supernatural power, revenge, parallel universe, female nudity, hate, unlikely friendships, erotica, warrior
Place: japan
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Orange: Future (2016)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 63 min.
Story: Twenty-six-year-old Hiroto Suwa; his wife, Naho; and their old high school classmates—Takako Chino, Azusa Murasaka, and Saku Hagita—visit Mt. Koubou to view the cherry blossoms together. While watching the setting sun, they reminisce about ...
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Plot: school, high school life, lifestyle, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love story, relationship problems, teenage life, teenager, love triangle, love affair, relationships, time travel
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Ocean Waves (1993)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 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 ...
Style: anime, realistic, adult animation, serious, sincere ...
Audience: teens, kids, date night
Plot: friendship, love triangle, unspoken love, teenage love, love and romance, youth, friends, thoughtful, coming of age, daily life, divorce, relationships ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
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Style: anime, serious, manga, suspense, captivating ...
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Time: future, 90s, year 1996, year 1999
Place: japan, asia
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Hal (2013)
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 ...
Style: anime, sentimental, serious, touching, futuristic ...
Plot: couples, artificial intelligence, love affair, androids and robots, couple relations, love and romance, haunted by the past, repressed memory, reincarnation, androids, robot, heartbreak ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: japan
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Yuuta and Rikka are in their third year of high school. One day in Spring, Touka declares that she will take Rikka to Italy with her, as her job has stabilized there and thinks they should migrate together as a family. Touka is also worried about ...
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Plot: school, young love, on the road, spring break, friendship, everyday life, couples, society, family relations, slice of life, high school, first kiss ...
Place: japan, tokyo, hokkaido
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When the Wind Blows (1986)
Genre: Animation, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story: With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack, unaware that times and the nature of war have changed from their romantic memories of World War II
Style: adult animation, bleak, apocalyptic, disturbing, realistic ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: nuclear holocaust, nuclear war, cold war, nuclear threat, tragedy, apocalypse, countryside, nuclear disaster, epidemic, chaos, post apocalyptic, distopia ...
Time: 20th century, year 1986, distant future, 80s
Place: england, europe
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65%
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Only Yesterday (1991)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
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, anime, melancholic, atmospheric, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, date night, girls' night, adult
Plot: countryside, childhood, friendship, coming of age, adolescence, self discovery, introspection, village life, childhood memory, deadend life, strong female character, children ...
Time: year 1991
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
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Planetarian: Hoshi no Hito (2016)
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, futuristic, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
Plot: dystopian future, vestiges of humanity, outer space, slice of life, children, humanity, robot, post-apocalyptic future, underground bunker, post apocalypse
Time: future
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Twilight (2019)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 52 min.
Story: Hakubo tells the story of two young people who live in rural Fukushima: Sachi Koyama, a girl who excels at playing the violin, and Yuusuke Kijinami, a boy who loves to paint. After an awkward, chance encounter, the two meet and begin to fall in ...
Style: anime, uplifting, sincere, touching, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
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Place: japan
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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: teens, date night, teen drama
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
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Duration: 97 min.
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Time of Eve (2010)
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Urusei Yatsura: Only You (1983)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min.
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The Stranger by the Beach (2020)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
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Genre: Animation, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 145 min.
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Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
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Style: anime, rough, futuristic, exciting, suspenseful ...
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Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 68 min.
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min.
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Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 144 min.
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Style: anime, psychological, masterpiece
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Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min.
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Style: anime, touching, stylized, atmospheric, sentimental ...
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Duration: 84 min.
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Kimagure Orange Road: I Want to Return to That Day (1988)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 69 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Cocolors (2017)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min.
Story: Aki isn’t a brave little boy, but he’s dedicated nonetheless to safeguarding his sickly, mute friend Fuyu. They and their little gang live deep underground, in the concrete warrens to which survivors have fled following the eruption of Mt. Fuji. ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, apocalyptic, captivating, anime
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