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Same Old, Same Old (2016)
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Original name: 退屈な日々にさようならを
Genre: Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Focusing on the lives (and a few deaths) of three filmmakers, Rikiya Imaizumi (Their Distance, Sad Tea) tackles weighty themes in this new ensemble drama set in Tokyo and Fukushima. Director Kajiwara, struggling to earn a living from film, gets an offer to do a music video. But it doesn’t go well and he finds himself in an unexpected situation. Actress Aoba witnesses her filmmaker boyfriend's suicide and decides to hide his body. Gardener Taro plans to close the family business he inherits from his father, but receives a phone call one night from the self-declared girlfriend of his estranged twin, Jiro.
Style:
melancholic, poignant, existential, realistic, art house, dark comedy, black humor
Plot:
death, relationships, suicide, grief, filmmaking, loss, slice of life, fukushima, brothers, isolation, actress, alienation, city life, cover up, regret, estrangement, intimate, twins, family business, secret, identity, redemption, gardening, small town, girlfriend ...
Time:
2010s, contemporary
Place:
tokyo
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, emotional, realistic and psychological films with plots about intimate, slice of life, small town, coming of age, bittersweet, grief and relationships mostly in Family, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Same Old, Same Old: Madhuram Jeevamruthabindu (2025), Hello, Goodbye (2016), Tokyo Park (2011), Sky's Restaurant (2019), Atabai (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Family
Country: India
Story:
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Genre: Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
tokyo, east asia
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Genre: Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
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Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Family
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Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
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Genre: Family
Country: India
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
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Style:
heartfelt, romantic drama, emotional, realistic, intercultural
Plot:
urban, village life, small town, youth, coming of age, dream, aspiration, social commentary, ambition, class conflict, personal growth, city life ...
Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In Neko Atsume no Ie, Atsushi Ito stars as Masaru Sakamoto, a novelist who moves to the countryside to try to combat a bad case of writer's block. While struggling to begin his next novel, Masaru spots a stray cat, which he decides to befriend. ...
Style:
touching, captivating, exciting, entertaining, feel good ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
cat, animal, novelist, pets, obsession, life, writers, writer's block, woman, pet cat, loneliness, japanese woman ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 29 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan
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60%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Family
Country: India
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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55%
Genre: Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Style:
medical drama, witty, entertaining, captivating, dramatic ...
Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
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Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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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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Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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