Movies like A Distant Cry from Spring

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A Distant Cry from Spring (1980)
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A Distant Cry from Spring (1980)
Original name: 遙かなる山の呼び声
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The quiet life of a mother and her young son living on a farm in Hokkaido is changed by the arrival of a man who ignites flames of romance in the heart of the mother and shows her boy the importance of grit and kindness, but then he leaves with the autumn wind...
Style: uplifting, art house
Plot: asian history, horse, loneliness, manhood, horse race, ranch, single mother, coffee, cow, asian, loyalty, rainstorm, cousin, man boy relationship, brother brother relationship, fistfight, dead father, police detective, cousin cousin relationship, suitor, mysterious stranger, hopes, genius, mother son relationship, straw hat
Place: japan

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Most similar movies to A Distant Cry from Spring

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, sincere and captivating films with plots about hopes, family relations, friendship, society, life is a bitch, asian and food mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like A Distant Cry from Spring: The Yellow Handkerchief (1977), Railroad Man (1999), Kabei: Our Mother (2008), Station (1981), About Her Brother (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Yellow Handkerchief (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The story starts with Kinya, who has recently upgraded his car. He’s a young adult and he’s single so naturally he uses his ride to ahem, look for companions. He offers a ride to a shy girl by the name of Akemi and she reluctantly accepts. From ...
Style: road movie, art house
Plot: road trip, flashback, police, divorce, husband wife relationship, fall in love, breakup, ex convict, homecoming, diarrhea, miscarriage, young love ...
Place: hokkaido
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Railroad Man (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter. When the railroad line is scheduled to be closed, he is offered a job at a hotel, but he is emotionally unable to part with ...
Style: art house
Plot: winter, railway, humanity, coal mine, train station, flashback, marriage, doll, supernatural power, father daughter relationship, railway station
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Kabei: Our Mother (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist. His wife Kayo works frantically from morning to night to maintain the household and bring up her ...
Style: serious, touching, sincere, realistic, emotional ...
Plot: life is a bitch, world war two, parents and children, nationalism, wartime life, political unrest, japanese military, state affairs, unsupportive parent, single parent, death in the family, society ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
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73%
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Station (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 132 min.
Story: A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers.
Plot: humanity, love, olympics, police officer, shooting, train station, suicide, snow, divorce, live action, suicide note
Time: year 1979, year 1968, year 1976
Place: hokkaido
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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About Her Brother (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Ginko’s younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud and plain inappropriate at times causes Ginko to disown him. The two reunite when she discovers Tetsuro is terminally ill. Tetsuro’s impending ...
Style: realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: family relations, human nature, family problems, bittersweet, unfulfillment, redemption, family feud, brother sister relationship, relationships, relationship problems, problem solving, living together ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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65%
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Dearest (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A prison officer hands in his resignation after his wife's death, to drive to the port where she wants her ashes scattered at sea. Eiji (Ken Takakura) works as a prison officer in Hokuriku. At the age of 53 Eiji loses his wife who he loved the ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sincere
Plot: road trip, widower, mourning, chance meeting, prison warden, last wish, asian, humanity, tourist, typhoon, car thief, coffee ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Café Lumière (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, Taiwan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Making her way through life by forming superficial relationships, Yoko (Japanese pop idol Yo Hitoto) keeps everyone at arm's length, whether it's her father (Nanji Kobayashi) and stepmother (Kimiko Yo) or Hajime (Tadanobu Asano), the owner ...
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot: pregnancy, love and romance, lifestyle, writer's life, youth, friendship, family life, train, single mother, bookstore, cafe, coffee ...
Time: 2000s, year 2003, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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 ⇓
51%
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Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: China, Japan, Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Takada, a Japanese fisherman has been estranged from his son for many years, but when the son is diagnosed with terminal cancer his daughter-in-law, Rie, summons him to the hospital. Through a series of obstacles and relationships, he is brought ...
Style: emotional, touching, stylized, serious, realistic ...
Plot: friendship, tour guide, father son relationship, village, redemption, family relations, parents and children, aging, estranged father, unfulfillment, estrangement, understanding ...
Time: year 2005
Place: china, east asia, tokyo, japan
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50%
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The Long Shot (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Annie Garret is a young woman who moves with her irresponsible husband Ross and their seven-year-old daughter Taylor from Colorado to a ranch in northern California where Ross abandons them after he fails to land a job. With no money and no friends, ...
Style: uplifting, realistic, serious, sincere
Audience: family outing
Plot: horse, equestrian, follow your dream, starting over, ambition, family relations, parents and children, friendship, single parent, hopes, farm, animal life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: colorado, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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50 to 1 (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A misfit group of New Mexico cowboys find themselves on the journey of a lifetime when they learn their crooked-footed racehorse qualifies to run in the Kentucky Derby. Based on the true story of Mine That Bird, the cowboys must overcome impossible ...
Style: feel good, realistic, touching, captivating, exciting ...
Plot: horse, horse race, against the odds, rivalry, hopes, chases and races, ambition, contests and competitions, racehorse, animal training, fish out of water, winner ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new mexico, louisville kentucky
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Hidden Blade (2004)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of his new life when he is put to the test and ordered to kill a traitor who just happens to be his ...
Style: serious, sentimental, stylized, epic, romantic ...
Plot: samurai, martial arts, caste system, feudal japan, vengeance, politics, love and romance, family life, medieval, edo period, ninja, winter ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Deep in the Heart (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: An alcoholic man refocuses himself on putting kids through college via 4H and FFA scholarship donations. Guiding him is a spiritual figure he calls "The Bearded Man".
Style: realistic, serious, uplifting, touching, captivating ...
Plot: starting over, support group, hopes, alcohol abuse, mysterious stranger, college, rise to the top, society, friendship, lifestyle change, changing lives, alcoholic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Tokyo Family (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 146 min.
Story: In this film director Yoji Yamada bows down before his teacher and role model. Yamada was assistant director on Yazujirō Ozu’s Tōkyō monogatari, a moving family portrait set after the Second World War. In his remake, Yamada has made very few ...
Style: realistic, emotional, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: family life, parents and children, aging, beauty salon, elderly, siblings relations, couple relations, old age, asian, pretty girl, japanese schoolgirl, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: tokyo, japan, asia, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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After the Rain (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As the bad weather continues, tensions rise amongst the travelers trapped at the inn. Ihei Misawa is a ronin, a samurai without a master, whose skills ...
Style: spiritual, jidai geki, serious, captivating, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: samurai, ronin, rain, river, medieval, asian history, forest, revolution, edo period, myth, swordplay, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 1999, 18th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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It's Only Talk (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Based on an award winning novel, It's Only Talk is about the life of Yuko, a 35 year old woman. She is single and unemployed, and suffers from manic depression. The movie begins with Yuko moving to Kamata Town.
Plot: mental disorder, urban setting, female masturbation, gangster, depression, bathhouse, goldfish, pervert, loneliness, horse race, cousin cousin relationship, internet ...
Place: tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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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 ⇓
36%
Angus Buchan's Ordinary People (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The plot follows the individual journeys of three ordinary South African men in the build up to their attendance of the 2010 Mighty Men Conference, where their lives are forever changed by God's message for them.
Style: uplifting, serious, realistic, emotional, art house ...
Plot: self discovery, human spirit, family problems, hopes, society, redemption, friendship, christian, biopic, faith, religions or cults, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The River with No Bridge (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 142 min.
Story: THE RIVER WITH NO BRIDGE begins in 1908 and tells the story of a widow, Fude HATANAKA and her two sons, Seitaro and Koji, who live in the small town of Komori, where Buraku people are forced to reside. The two boys are continuously harassed by ...
Style: saga
Plot: brother brother relationship, marriage, cousin cousin relationship, school teacher, coming of age, bullying, discrimination
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Quill:  The Life of a Guide Dog (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: As a Labrador puppy, Quill is sent to live with a couple, Isamu and Mitsuko Nii, who work as volunteers, training guide dogs (seeing eye dogs). When he grows to an adult dog, he is taken to a guide dog school, by a friendly, yet firm trainer Satoru ...
Style: touching, uplifting, sentimental, emotional, sincere ...
Audience: date night
Plot: dog, friendship, elderly, pets, mistrust, animal training, optimism, disability, instructor, temperamental, human animal relationship, seeing eye dog ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Tony Takitani (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Tony Takitani had a solitary childhood. Being alone was normal since his mother died young and his father was always away with his jazz band. At school he studied art, but while his sketches are accurate and detailed they lack feeling. Used to being ...
Style: captivating, serious, atmospheric, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: emotionless, loneliness, obsession, couples, life is a bitch, alone, love and romance, fall in love, hopes, solitude, jazz, human nature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Twilight Samurai (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile mother. New prospects seem to open up when the ...
Style: tense, emotional, realistic, atmospheric, sincere ...
Plot: samurai, sword fight, feudal japan, poverty, love, friendship, medieval, character study, tragedy, visceral, love story, assassination ...
Time: 19th century, 2000s, year 2002, y2k, 1800s
Place: japan, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Dead Run (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Classmates Shuji and Eri becomes friends, both young people have family problems. When Eri is taken away to Tokyo by her relatives, Shuji becomes increasingly isolated at school and drifts into criminal activity.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling
Plot: life is a bitch, male female relationship, faith, family relations, problem, priest, relationships, brothers, brother brother relationship, brother, yakuza, japanese woman ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Petal Dance (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Four women, who have their own different sorrows, embark on a road trip. They look back at their past and restart their lives... Jinko (Aoi Miyazaki) and Motoko (Sakura Ando) have been friends since their university days. One day, they hear a rumor ...
Style: uplifting, romantic
Plot: beach, siblings, road trip, female friendship, woman driver, best friend, east asian girl, hospital, japanese girl, driver, passenger, car ...
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Dawn of the Felines (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A glimpse into the lives of three prostitutes in the Ikebukuro district of Tokyo and the clients who solicit them.
Style: sincere, tense, captivating, psychological, disturbing ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: sexy woman, prostitute, loneliness, sex scene, prostitution, escort, pink film, friendship, social satire, friend, money, lifestyle ...
Place: tokyo, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.8
 511
Bashing (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Yuko is a Japanese girl who was taken hostage in Iraq while volunteering there as an aid worker. Finally released and back in her hometown, Yuko finds herself ostracized as a national disgrace by society that sees her helping a country other than ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, bleak, gloomy
Plot: journalism, propaganda, confined, homecoming, estrangement, misfit, hopes, iraq war, society, life is a bitch, social misfits, harassment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iraq, japan, middle east, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 7.5
 7K
Maborosi (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A young woman's husband apparently commits suicide without warning or reason, leaving behind his wife and infant. Yumiko remarries and moves from Osaka to a small fishing village, yet continues to search for meaning in a lonely world.
Style: art house, atmospheric, contemplative, slow cinema, retro ...
Plot: suicide, stepbrother stepsister relationship, death, self discovery, arranged marriage, train, memory, drinking, water, asian, meditation, mental disorder ...
Time: year 1995, 90s
Place: japan, venice, asia, europe, italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
To Each His Own (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Takashi Aoyama has way too much work to do and pushes himself mentally too hard. He blacks out and collapses at a railroad station. When he is about to be hit by a train, he is saved by Yamamoto. After his encounter with Yamamoto, Takashi recovers ...
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing, twisted, queer cinema
Plot: suicide attempt, hopes, suicide, gay, social problems, office work, changing lives, job, life is a bitch, relationships, ex classmate, office worker ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Drucker in the Dug-Out (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Story: The movie is about Minami Kawashima, a high school girl who becomes the manager of her school's baseball team in place of her hospitalized friend, Yuki Miyata. She tries to lead the team to the National High School Baseball Championship by ...
Style: captivating, sincere, uplifting, psychological
Plot: baseball, school, japanese schoolgirl, contests and competitions, sport team, rivalry, manager, disability, society, friendship, human spirit, japanese girl ...
Place: japan
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31%
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