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The Garden of Words (2013)
 7.4
 52K
The Garden of Words (2013)
Original name: 言の葉の庭
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 again, but only on rainy days. They deepen their relationship and open up to each other. But the end of the rainy season soon approaches …
Style: anime, touching, sweet, atmospheric, melancholic, serious, romantic, colorful, visual, manga ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: shoemaker, rain, age difference, youth, grownups, unlikely couple, overcoming, older woman younger man relationship, shyness, teenage life, teen angst, love and romance, relationships, chance meeting, young lovers, teacher, unrequited love, teen romance, love story, coming of age, teacher student relationship, melancholy, bittersweet, male female relationship, gossip ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: tokyo, japan, asia
Keyword: dreams

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, touching, manga and whimsical films with plots about friendship, love, coming of age, fall in love, teenager, youth and love and romance mostly in Animation, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Garden of Words: 5 Centimeters Per Second (2007), Your Name. (2016), Weathering with You (2019), Flavors of Youth (2018), I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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5 Centimeters Per Second (2007)
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: anime, sad, depressing, touching, emotional ...
Audience: kids, date night, teen drama
Plot: love and romance, coming of age, relationships, young lovers, lovers apart, nostalgia, teenage love, hopes, love, love story, friendship, bittersweet ...
Time: 2000s, 20th century, future, 90s, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
97%
 8.4
 315K
Your Name. (2016)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story: High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body, and he in hers. This bizarre occurrence continues to happen randomly, and the two must ...
Style: anime, sweet, touching, melancholic, romantic ...
Audience: teens, date night, kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: time travel, body swapping, school, beautiful scenery, friendship, girl, love, destiny, teenager, schoolgirl, memory loss, boy ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, 2020s, year 2013
Place: tokyo, japan, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
Weathering with You (2019)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan, China
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Hodaka, a high school boy who moves from his isolated island home to the city of Tokyo, who immediately becomes broke! After finally finding work at a shady occult magazine, the sky rains every day until amidst the hustle and bustle of the big city, ...
Style: anime, touching, exciting, captivating, feel good ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: weather, friendship, fall in love, teenager, love, magic, couples, girl, climate change, magical girl, magical power, summer ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Flavors of Youth (2018)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: China, Japan
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Three different stories of youth set in different cities of China. 1 Shanghai Love. 2 Sunny Breakfast. 3 Small Fashion Show. Directed by Zhenxing Yi, the plot revolves around a young man working in Beijing. He used to live with his grandma in ...
Style: anime, anthology, light, manga, captivating ...
Plot: life, friendship, dream, coming of age, love, family relations, teenage boy, model, multiple storylines, society, lifestyle, everyday life ...
Time: 2010s
Place: japan, china, shanghai
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
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I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (2018)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Spring time in April and the last of the cherry blossoms are still in bloom. The usually aloof bookworm with no interest in others comes across a book in a hospital waiting room. Handwritten on the cover are the words: "Living with Dying." ...
Style: anime, sincere, disturbing, romantic, thought provoking ...
Audience: teens
Plot: tragedy, friendship, teenage life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage girl, love story, teenage boy, romantic relationship, bucket list, fall in love, love and romance, friends ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 8.1
 99K
A Silent Voice (2016)
Genre: Animation, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Shouya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class, Shouko Nishimiya, because she is deaf. But as the teasing continues, the rest of the class starts to turn on Shouya for his lack of compassion. When they leave elementary school, Shouko and Shouya ...
Style: anime, touching, sincere, romantic, sweet ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: teenager, bullying, disability, deaf, sign language, friendship, high school, japanese schoolgirl, japanese school, coming of age, deafness, suicide attempt ...
Time: 2010s
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
To the Forest of Firefly Lights (2011)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min.
Story: One hot summer day a little girl gets lost in an enchanted forest of the mountain god where spirits reside. A young boy appears before her, but she cannot touch him for fear of making him disappear. And so a wondrous adventure awaits...
Style: anime, touching, exciting, sincere, sad ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: spirit, childhood, friendship, slice of life, forest, love, supernatural, folklore, nature, little girl, summer, countryside ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 7.8
 97K
The Wind Rises (2013)
Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II fighter plane.
Style: anime, touching, stylized, atmospheric, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, teens
Plot: world war two, tuberculosis, dream, airplane, earthquake, aviation, biopic, inventions and discoveries, flying, hopes, love and romance, wartime ...
Time: 1930s, 2010s, year 2013, 1920s, 20th century ...
Place: japan, germany, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
 7.6
 37K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Place Promised in Our Early Days (2004)
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, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: friendship, coma, teenage life, youth, dystopian future, apocalypse, haunted by the past, danger, life is a bitch, young love, thoughtful, working class ...
Time: future, 90s, year 1996, year 1999
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
Josee, the Tiger and the Fish (2020)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A youth romantic drama with themes of growing up, the story focuses on college student Tsuneo and dreamer Josee, who lives her life stuck in a wheelchair. Josee—named after the heroine in Françoise Sagan’s Wonderful Clouds—spends most of her ...
Style: anime, sincere, captivating
Plot: relationships, lifestyle change, woman in a wheelchair, love, teenage life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, lifestyle, teenager, slice of life, wheelchair bound, disabled child, disability ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When 17-year-old Makoto Konno gains the ability to, quite literally, "leap" backwards through time, she immediately sets about improving her grades and preventing personal mishaps. However, she soon realises that changing the past ...
Style: anime, touching, feel good, humorous, manga ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night
Plot: time travel, high school, friendship, supernatural ability, teenage girl, school, classmate, changing the past or future, time loop, coming of age, teenage love, friends ...
Time: future, 2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
When Marnie Was There (2014)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Upon being sent to live with relatives in the countryside due to an illness, an emotionally distant adolescent girl becomes obsessed with an abandoned mansion and infatuated with a girl who lives there - a girl who may or may not be real.
Style: anime, touching, emotional, sentimental, scenic ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, chick flick
Plot: friendship, self discovery, childhood, dream, countryside, loneliness, young girl, photograph, teenage life, imaginary friend, magic realism, orphan ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: japan, hokkaido, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious young princess enthralls all who encounter her - but ultimately she must confront her fate, the ...
Style: touching, anime, atmospheric, stylized, melancholic ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, princess, friendship, children, parents and children, dream, self discovery, female protagonist, japanese woman, family relations, surrealism, melancholy ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, year 2013
Place: japan, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Whisper of the Heart (1995)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Shizuku lives a simple life, dominated by her love for stories and writing. One day she notices that all the library books she has have been previously checked out by the same person: 'Seiji Amasawa'. Curious as to who he is, Shizuku meets ...
Style: anime, touching, feel good, uplifting, emotional ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, pre-teens, family friendly ...
Plot: imagination, self discovery, school, teenage life, high school life, follow your dream, love, youth, fall in love, teenage love, love and romance, cat ...
Time: 90s, year 1995, 20th century
Place: japan, tokyo, europe, asia, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Say "I love you" (2012)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Friends suck, and trusting someone is just setting yourself up. That's the lesson Mei Tachibana learned after her heart was ripped out and only a shell was left where a girl used to be. But unlike so many, she found an easy solution: ...
Style: anime, shoujo, touching, emotional, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school life, friendship, first love, teenage love, troubled past, friends, fall in love, school, teenage life, youth, haunted by the past, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
 5K
Golden Time (2013)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Banri Tada is a freshman at a Tokyo law school. After an accident, he suffers severe memory loss. Despite the incident, he befriends fellow freshman, Mitsuo Yanagisawa, which leads him to the beautiful, yet obsessive, Kouko Kaga.
Style: anime, sincere, touching, captivating, light ...
Plot: japanese girl, dream, love interest, hometown, university, love triangle, couples, society, flashback, law school, city, law student ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop (2020)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story: After meeting one bright, sunny day, a shy boy who expresses himself through haiku and a bubbly but self-conscious girl share a brief, magical summer.
Style: anime, sincere, romantic, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: slice of life, shy girl, social problems, teenager, love, friendship, in love, chance meeting, small town, fall in love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, romantic relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Domestic Girlfriend (2019)
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, yuri, tense ...
Plot: youth, school, half brother half sister relationship, couple relations, love triangle, sex, love, fall in love, teacher student relationship, rivalry, female nudity, love and romance ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
 6.7
 2K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
The Secret World of Arrietty (2010)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story: 14-year-old Arrietty and the rest of the Clock family live in peaceful anonymity as they make their own home from items "borrowed" from the house's human inhabitants. However, life changes for the Clocks when a human boy discovers ...
Style: anime, fairy tale, touching, visually appealing, scenic ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, teen drama, preschool
Plot: friendship, midget, little people, cat, mysterious character, daring rescue, friends, tiny, self discovery, magical, tragedy, coming of age ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 21st century
Place: japan, seattle, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 8.1
 49K
Wolf Children (2012)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story: After her werewolf lover unexpectedly dies in an accident, a woman must find a way to raise the son and daughter that she had with him. However, their inheritance of their father's traits prove to be a challenge for her.
Style: anime, heartbreaking, sweet, atmospheric, colorful ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, adult
Plot: werewolf, childhood, parents and children, children, single mother, wolf, female werewolf, death of father, supernatural, family relations, wilderness, school ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 6.6
 20K
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 ⇓
71%
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Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms (2018)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A story of encounters and partings interwoven between people; this is a human drama with feelings that touch one's heart gradually, which everyone has experienced at least once.
Style: anime, touching, thought provoking, sentimental, sincere ...
Audience: date night
Plot: life is a bitch, family relations, parents and children, teenager, orphan, love, baby, female protagonist, friendship, military, adoption, mother son relationship ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Violet Evergarden: The Movie (2020)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min.
Story: The official website of the "Violet Evergarden" animated TV series announced an all-new animated film for the series on Monday that will have a simultaneous worldwide release in January 2020. Plot details are unknown.
Style: anime, touching, serious, non-linear, melancholic
Plot: girlfriend girlfriend relationship, mail, slice of life, alternate world, tragic love, love, fictional war, letter, social problems, love affair, sensuality, relationships ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.9
 9K
Maid Sama! (2010)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Misaki Ayuzawa is the first female student council president at a once all-boys school turned co-ed. She rules the school with strict discipline demeanor. But she has a secret—she works at a maid cafe due to her families circumstances. One day the ...
Style: anime, humorous, touching, shoujo, romantic ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night
Plot: school, teenage life, teenage love, fall in love, love and romance, high school, maid, youth, rich and poor, cafe, student, power relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Psychic School Wars (2012)
Genre: Animation, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min.
Story: It's a new school year at the local Junior High School i Kamakura. The school year starts off with a new transfer student Ryoichi Kyogoku who joins the 8th grade class. He has been ordered to join the school, and use his special gift of ...
Style: anime, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, manga ...
Audience: teens
Plot: school, high school life, coming of age, love triangle, psychic, friends, unrequited love, student, superpower, teenage love, supernatural, new love ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai (2018)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Puberty Syndrome—a rumored, mysterious syndrome that only affects those in their puberty. For example, a bunny girl suddenly appeared in front of Sakuta Azusagawa. The bunny girl's real identity is Mai Sakurajima, a teenage celebrity who is ...
Style: anime, feel good, sweet, light, colorful ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: school, friendship, teenage life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, youth, fall in love, family problems, siblings relations, ambition, friend, lifestyle, supernatural ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Dou Kyu Sei: Classmates (2016)
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: yaoi, anime, captivating, touching, lgbt cinema ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: gay, high school, gay relationship, boys love, couple relations, love and romance, coming of age, fall in love, couples, youth, friends, teen romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Millennium Actress (2001)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Documentary filmmaker Genya Tachibana has tracked down the legendary actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who mysteriously vanished at the height of her career. When he presents her with a key she had lost and thought was gone forever, the filmmaker could not ...
Style: anime, surreal, touching, talky, atmospheric ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: actor's life, female protagonist, lost love, popularity, love and romance, retired, haunted by the past, unfulfilled love, love story, mother daughter relationship, interview, movie star ...
Time: 20th century, year 2001, 2000s, 1940s, 1930s ...
Place: japan, tokyo, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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