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The Garden of Words (2013)
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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, romantic, serious, colorful, adult animation, visual ...
Audience:
teens, date night, teen drama
Plot:
rain, shoemaker, youth, overcoming, unlikely couple, age difference, young lovers, teenage life, grownups, relationships, shyness, older woman younger man relationship, teacher student relationship, teen angst, love and romance, chance meeting, teacher, unrequited love, love story, teen romance, male female relationship, coming of age, melancholy, bittersweet, gossip ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
tokyo, japan, asia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, touching, manga and adult animation films with plots about friendship, coming of age, love, fall in love, teenager, relationships and school 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.
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 ...
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depressing, anime, touching, emotional, scenic ...
Audience:
kids, date night, teen drama
Plot:
love and romance, life philosophy, coming of age, relationships, lovers apart, young lovers, teenage love, nostalgia, hopes, love story, love, friendship ...
Time:
2000s, 20th century, future, 90s, 21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
94%
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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, touching, melancholic, sweet, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, family outing, kids, teen drama
Plot:
time travel, body swapping, beautiful scenery, plot twist, destiny, school, love story, girl, friendship, schoolgirl, love, memory loss ...
Time:
year 2016, year 2013, 2020s, 2010s
Place:
tokyo, japan, east asia
Similarity:
95%
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, love, magic, teenager, girl, couples, magical girl, magical power, climate change, flood ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
86%
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, adult animation, light, manga, scenic ...
Plot:
friendship, dream, food, coming of age, love, life, family relations, model, teenage boy, everyday life, lifestyle, society ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
japan, china, shanghai
Similarity:
92%
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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, thought provoking, romantic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
tragedy, friendship, teenage life, teenage girl, teenage boy, fall in love, hospital, bucket list, love story, high school, romantic friendship, love and romance ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
86%
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, sincere, touching, romantic, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
bullying, disability, deaf, sign language, friendship, teenager, high school, japanese schoolgirl, coming of age, japanese school, suicide attempt, redemption ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama, History, 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, sentimental, emotional, adult animation ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, teens
Plot:
tuberculosis, world war two, dream, earthquake, inventions and discoveries, flying, hopes, aviation, biopic, love and romance, engineer, wartime ...
Time:
1930s, 2010s, year 2013, 1920s, 1940s ...
Place:
japan, germany, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
88%
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, adult animation, suspense ...
Plot:
friendship, coma, true love, teenage life, youth, apocalypse, haunted by the past, danger, life is a bitch, dystopian future, young love, passion ...
Time:
future, 90s, year 1999, year 1996
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
89%
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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, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot:
time travel, high school, supernatural ability, friendship, classmate, teenage girl, coming of age, school, changing the past or future, friends, love, teenage love ...
Time:
future, 2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
88%
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan, USA
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, atmospheric, sentimental, melancholic, serious ...
Audience:
kids, date night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
countryside, friendship, childhood, coming of age, self discovery, adolescence, childhood memory, village life, deadend life, nostalgia, female protagonist, marriage ...
Time:
year 1991
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
100%
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, romantic, tsundere ...
Plot:
relationships, lifestyle change, woman in a wheelchair, love, teenage life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, lifestyle, slice of life, teenager, wheelchair bound, disability, disabled child ...
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89%
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, sincere, captivating, exciting ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
spirit, childhood, friendship, love, fall in love, supernatural, little girl, nature, folklore, relationships, abrupt ending, forest ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
80%
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, emotional, melancholic, lyrical ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, family friendly, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan, east asia, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
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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:
touching, anime, emotional, sentimental, psychological ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, chick flick, teens
Plot:
friendship, self discovery, childhood, dream, countryside, young girl, loneliness, teenage life, asthma, imaginary friend, orphan, magic realism ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
japan, hokkaido, asia, england, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
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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, hentai, tense ...
Plot:
youth, love triangle, couple relations, half brother half sister relationship, sex, school, love, fall in love, rivalry, love and romance, teacher student relationship, female nudity ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
80%
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, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, pre-teens, kids, family friendly ...
Plot:
imagination, self discovery, school, teenage life, high school life, follow your dream, youth, fall in love, love and romance, teenage love, love, hopes ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1994, year 1995
Place:
japan, tokyo, europe, asia, italy
Similarity:
75%
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, teen drama
Plot:
high school life, first love, teenage love, fall in love, troubled past, friendship, school, teenage life, friends, love and romance, youth, haunted by the past ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
100%
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, captivating, touching, light ...
Plot:
japanese girl, love triangle, love interest, hometown, dream, couples, society, coming of age, adolescence, slice of life, university, car crash ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, paris france
Similarity:
100%
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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, captivating, romantic, disturbing ...
Plot:
shy girl, slice of life, social problems, friendship, love, teenager, chance meeting, small town, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, fall in love, couples, romantic relationship ...
Similarity:
100%
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, family friendly, kids, adult
Plot:
werewolf, childhood, children, parents and children, single mother, wolf, female werewolf, death of father, supernatural, school, family relations, wilderness ...
Time:
2010s, year 2012
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 76 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, adult animation, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, kids, date night
Plot:
friendship, unspoken love, love triangle, teenage love, youth, love and romance, friends, male female relationship, high school reunion, fall in love, thoughtful, coming of age ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, 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, sentimental, thought provoking, sincere ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
parents and children, family relations, life is a bitch, orphan, teenager, love, baby, female protagonist, friendship, military, death, warrior ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan, South Korea, Czech Republic, Germany
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:
mail, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, letter, alternate world, tragic love, slice of life, love, fictional war, confronting the past, relationships, social problems, love affair ...
Similarity:
100%
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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, shoujo, romantic, touching ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night
Plot:
school, teenage life, teenage love, high school, fall in love, love and romance, relationships, maid, youth, friendship, rich and poor, cafe ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
100%
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, colorful, light ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
school, friendship, teenage life, youth, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, fall in love, family problems, siblings relations, ambition, lifestyle, friend, love triangle ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
100%
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, disturbing, suspense, manga ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
psychic, school, unrequited love, high school life, friends, coming of age, love triangle, student, superpower, couple relations, manipulation, supernatural ability ...
Similarity:
100%
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, emotional, adult animation, surreal, touching ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
lost love, female protagonist, actor's life, interview, love and romance, unfulfilled love, haunted by the past, love story, movie star, mother daughter relationship, longing, lovers apart ...
Time:
20th century, year 2001, 1940s, 2000s, 1930s ...
Place:
japan, tokyo, china, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The story follows Benio "Haikara-san" Hanamura, who lost her mother when she was very young and has been raised by her father, a high-ranking official in the Japanese army. As a result, she has grown into a tomboy -- contrary to ...
Style:
anime, sincere, psychological, captivating, shoujo
Plot:
lovers apart, love affair, star crossed lovers, male female relationship, love interest, in love, couple relations, life is a bitch, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, wartime, love story, social problems ...
Time:
1920s, year 1919, year 1918
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Kids on the Slope is a Japanese manga series by Yuki Kodama. An anime television series adaptation of the same name aired in 2012. It is directed by Shinichirō Watanabe at MAPPA and Tezuka Productions with music provided by acclaimed composer Yoko ...
Style:
anime, touching, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, friendship, unrequited love, jazz, coming of age, male male relationship, free spirited, music band, social relations, first love, youth, music ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
100%
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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, touching, serious, futuristic ...
Plot:
couples, artificial intelligence, love affair, androids and robots, couple relations, haunted by the past, love and romance, repressed memory, robot, reincarnation, androids, heartbreak ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
86%
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