Movies like A Midsummer's Fantasia

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A Midsummer's Fantasia (2014)
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A Midsummer's Fantasia (2014)
Original name: 한여름의 판타지아
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A Korean Film director, Kim Taehoon plans to shoot his new film in a small local city called Gojo, Japan. He travels with his assistant director, Park Mijeong to do research prior to scriptwriting. They travel through several villages that are declining, and interview some local residents there. Most people say there is nothing special about Gojo. Along the way, Kim and Park meet a municipal official, Yusuke and a middle-aged man, Kenji, and are deeply impressed by their stories. The night before director Kim is to leave Japan, having a strange dream, he wakes up in the middle of night, and looks up at the night sky in Gojo.
Plot: restaurant, dream, driving, full moon, summer, small town, fireworks, kiss, eating, woman in bathtub, midsummer, car driving
Place: japan
Keyword: korean

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Most similar movies to A Midsummer's Fantasia

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, captivating, realistic and serious films with plots about restaurant, small town, kiss, friendship, family relations, summer and food mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like A Midsummer's Fantasia: Food Luck (2020), Sheep (2013), The Rebirth (2007), Sweet Bean (2015), Different Flowers (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Food Luck (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Yoshito grew up with his mother Yasue after his father passed away. His mother ran a yakiniku (grilled meat) restaurant that his father had left behind. Yoshito enjoyed eating his mother's cooking and their restaurant was loved by many people. ...
Style: captivating, psychological
Plot: restaurant, food, mother son relationship, slice of life, restaurant owner, family problems, social problems, journalist, gourmet, family relations, workplace, food critic ...
Place: japan
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Sheep (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The life of a small French town is rocked by a bizarre incident.
Style: contemplative, serious, sincere, stylized, realistic ...
Plot: friendship, workplace, youth, teenage life, workplace situations, realism, small town, social relations, restaurant, small town life, friends, male nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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The Rebirth (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Coincidence and the aftermath of violence. A man's middle-school daughter has been murdered. His wife is already deceased. He tells a counselor he wants to live in anonymity, working with his hands. He moves away and gets a job in a factory. ...
Style: psychological, serious, sincere, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: murder, haunted by the past, friendship, life is a bitch, small town, loss of daughter, forgiveness, friends, starting over, dealing with death, interview, very little dialogue ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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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 ⇓
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Different Flowers (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Uptight Millie Haven has always followed the rules, but when she has doubts before her big Kansas City wedding, her attitude-prone little sister Emma, the least likely of heroes, comes to the rescue. They embark on a spontaneous roadtrip to their ...
Plot: road trip, sibling relationship, runaway bride, landscape, wedding, small town, kiss, american midwest, overalls
Place: missouri, kansas
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Two Moons (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Panoramic view of a resort town in the summer of 1930. In seventeen episodes we get a glimpse at the microcosm of its colourful inhabitants and visitors, Poles and Jews, the high society and the desperately poor.
Plot: town, worker, visitor, lower class, social class, blind man, artist, small town, resort, summer
Place: poland
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66%
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Fire Festival (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Tatsuo, a reverent lumberjack, seeks to disrupt plans to build a marine park on his family land, instead promoting his traditions in reactionary ways.
Plot: village, wilderness, nature, male nudity, lumberjack
Place: japan
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Vanishing Point (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A drama depicting life in different paths. As two men delve deep down in search for what could heal their pains, through the path of imagination, they see themselves in each other.
Plot: car, traffic accident, car accident, newspaper, smoking, monk, crime scene, butterfly, driving, eating
Time: 80s, year 1983
Place: thailand
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Sweet Lorraine (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Serio-comic look at the residents and staff of a Catskill Mountains resort during its final days.
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, touching, feel good ...
Plot: hotel, summer, couples, family relations, friends, elderly, ambition, aging, hopes, love and romance, small town, love affair ...
Time: year 1987, 80s, 20th century
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Bright Future (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Two friends who work in the same oshibori laundry are lost in the drudgery of everyday life. They hang out together, barely functioning and barely communicating. Their middle-aged boss makes a desparate attempt to connect with them with disasterous ...
Style: serious, psychological, touching, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot: gang, friendship, rebelliousness, resentment, estrangement, father son relationship, post apocalypse, asian, ghost, hopes, pets, boss and employee ...
Place: japan, asia
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59%
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The Innocence (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Lis is a teenager whose dream is to become a circus artist and leave her hometown, even if she knows that to do it she’ll have to fight her side against her parents. It’s summer and she spends her days playing with her friends and flirting with ...
Style: disturbing, semi serious, psychological, romantic, social
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Little Forest: Summer/Autumn (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Abandoned by her mother, young Ichiko leaves her life in the city to live off the land in Komori, a small town nestled among the mountains in rural Japan. Despite the void left by her mother’s disappearance, Ichiko comes to enjoy her independence ...
Style: psychological, visually appealing, thought provoking, contemplative, melancholic ...
Plot: food, japanese girl, farmer, solitude, mother issues, nature, village life, slice of life, countryside, provincial life, japanese culture, agriculture ...
Place: japan
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The Kirishima Thing (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A story about the disappearance of Kirishima, a star athlete of the volleyball club, and how his disappearance affects every person in school.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, semi serious, touching, psychological ...
Plot: high school, disappearance, society, friendship, youth, social relations, high school student, rivalry, asian, great ending, teenager, japanese schoolgirl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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House of Hummingbird (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Whatever she does, Eunhee feels like an outsider. Then her new Chinese teacher turns out to be so utterly different from everybody else. A compassionate and meticulously told narrative of a seemingly regular summer that leaves nothing unchanged.
Style: touching, sincere, captivating, psychological, melancholic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, teacher student relationship, female protagonist, teenager, relationships, middle school, personal growth, high school, teenage girl, family relations, adolescence, family problems ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: seoul, south korea, korea, asia
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Ninja 4: Siege (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story: [Period covered: 1614-1615] 4th film in the shinobi no mono series Tokugawa Ieyasu is now the ruler of all Japan. But one last loose thread must be tied up before his domination is complete -- the destruction of the Toyotomi clan, now beseiged in ...
Plot: ninja, samurai, medieval, martial arts, swordplay, siege, japanese history, samurai era
Place: japan
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Evil Does Not Exist (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
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The Bird (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young woman, withdrawn from life, rescues a live bird that had been trapped in the wall of her apartment.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, gloomy
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The Lady Improper (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min.
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Duration: 124 min.
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Things That Hang from Trees (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, USA
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Style: realistic, atmospheric, captivating, sincere, serious ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
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Style: sincere, touching, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot: infidelity, family business, dishonesty, parents and children, couples, love and romance, forbidden love, human nature, extramarital affair, love, sister sister relationship, father daughter relationship ...
Time: year 1961
Place: japan, asia
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Profound Desires of the Gods (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 173 min.
Story: Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori clan, to drill a well to power a sugar mill.
Style: captivating, erotic
Plot: time travel, asian, summer, pink film, japanese mythology, pacific island, brother sister relationship, remote island, tropical island, sexploitation, industrialization, fish ...
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The Solitary Gourmet (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
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Story: Centered around typical Japanese food, a solitary salesman travelling through the country for business purposes, eats at its various establishments and experiences the various delicacies of Japanese cuisine.
Style: captivating, disturbing, entertaining
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Place: japan
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And So The Baton Is Passed (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Yuko Morimiya is a high school student and she lives with her stepfather Morimiya. Morimiya is her third father. Her mother, Rika, is a free spirited person and has remarried several times. She disappeared from Yuko's life at a certain point. ...
Style: captivating, psychological
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Place: japan
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Backwater (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Based on a novel by Shinya Tanaka, this film is set in a quiet riverside town, where 17-year-old Tooma lives with his father and his father’s lover. Tooma witnesses his father’s sadistic behavior towards his lover and soon finds himself ...
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Hill of Freedom (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 66 min.
Story: A Japanese man arrives in Korea to find his old lover. While he stays at a guest house, he encounters various people.
Style: sentimental, realistic, serious, non-linear, cerebral
Plot: fall in love, love and romance, obsession, unfulfillment, unfulfilled love, haunted by the past, bittersweet, restaurant, asian, cafe, dog, dinner ...
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Place: korea, south korea, seoul
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The Beach House (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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Style: touching, disturbing, thought provoking, sincere
Audience: chick flick
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Place: south carolina, charleston south carolina
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34%
The Light Shines Only There (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A man has thrown away love and a woman has given up on love. The two souls meet in a brief summer in the northern city of Hakodate.
Style: realistic, serious, rough, touching, romantic ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, prostitute, life is a bitch, fall in love, social decay, society, love and romance, friendship, haunted by the past, friends, family problems, sexual content ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: japan, hokkaido
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Rhapsody in August (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, who lost her husband in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, caring for her four grandchildren over the summer. She learns of a long-lost brother, Suzujiro, living in Hawaii who wants her to visit him ...
Style: lyrical, melancholic, atmospheric, sincere, serious ...
Plot: world war two, memory, anti war, grandmother, depression, brothers, family relations, samurai, haunted by the past, society, battles, parents and children ...
Time: year 1991, 90s, post world war two
Place: japan, hawaii, usa, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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