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Like Father, Like Son (2013)
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Original name: そして父になる
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, intense, poignant, realistic, sad, slow cinema, aesthetic ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
family drama, family reunited, boy, parents and children, architect, parenthood, moral dilemma, father son relationship, self discovery, class differences, introspection, identity crisis, life turned upside down, family life, social differences, society, family problems, disorder, human nature, medical malpractice, coming of age, abandoned, switched at birth, lawyer, bittersweet ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, realistic, serious and emotional films with plots about family relations, parents and children, family problems, coming of age, father son relationship, youth and dysfunctional family mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Like Father, Like Son: I Wish (2011), Nobody Knows (2004), Shoplifters (2018), Still Walking (2008), Departures (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
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Country: Japan
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Story:
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Style:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
introspection, follow your dream, moral dilemma, relationship vs career, ambition, workplace situations, parents and children, workplace, couples, hopes, family life, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
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Place:
japan, tokyo
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20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: Taiwan, Japan
Duration: 173 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Country: Israel
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Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Country: Japan
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Italy, Germany, France, USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, touching, emotional
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Spain
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Story:
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Story:
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touching, emotional, sentimental, psychological, sincere ...
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