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We Were There: First Love (2012)
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We Were There: First Love (2012)
Original name: 僕等がいた 前篇
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story: "We Were There" follows the 10 year romance between Motoharu Yano (Toma Ikuta) & Nanami Takahashi (Yuriko Yoshitaka). During their high school days, Motoharu Yano was the most popular boy in school, but can't get over the death of his girlfriend from a car crash. Nanami Takahashi falls in love with Motoharu Yano and must deal with his inability to let go of the past.
Style: touching, sentimental, sincere, romantic, serious, shoujo, anime
Plot: cancer patient, teenage love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, separation, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, sadness, old friend, superhero, teenager, love story, stepmother stepson relationship, high school, love, airplane, train, stalker, cancer, illness, studying, physician, doctor, restaurant, hospital, railway, golf ...
Place: japan, tokyo, hokkaido

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out romantic, captivating, shoujo and sincere films with plots about mini skirt, girl wearing a miniskirt, short skirt, japanese schoolgirl, girl, schoolgirl and japanese girl mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like We Were There: First Love: Drowning Love (2016), Your eyes tell (2020), Close Range Love (2014), You, I Love (2018), Say 'I Love You' (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Drowning Love (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Natsume Mochizuki works as a teen model in Tokyo, but she learns that she has to move to her father's hometown of Ukigumo. She is in a desperate situation because she can't do the things she wants to do in Ukigumo. One day, she meets ...
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Place: japan, tokyo
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Your eyes tell (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A tragic accident lead to Kaori's blindness, but she clings to life and the smaller pleasures it can still afford her. She meets Rui and begins to talk to him. Rui was once a promising kickboxer, but something happened in his past. Kaori's ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: tokyo, xian
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Close Range Love (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A smart high school student falls in love with her English teacher after she receives one-on-one tutoring from him.
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Plot: high school romance, japanese schoolgirl, teacher student relationship, love, love story, schoolgirl, unrequited love, age difference, english teacher, male teacher female student affair, older man younger woman relationship, japanese school ...
Place: east asia, japan
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You, I Love (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Rin, Yuu, Koyomi and Keita are friends in high school who live in the same apartment building. Rin and Yuu like each other, but they don’t tell each other, until Kazuma shows up.
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Time: 21st century
Place: japan, east asia
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Say 'I Love You' (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Mei Tachibana is a high school student. Due to a traumatic incident when she was a kid, Mei has been unable to make friends or have boyfriends. By mistake, Mei then injures the most popular male student named Yamato Kurosawa. Somehow, Yamato ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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We Were There: True Love (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story: During the 2nd year of high school in the winter season, Yano (Toma Ikuta) transferred from Kushiro to Tokyo due to a family matter. Yano and Nanami (Yuriko Yoshitaka) promised to meet again. A couple of years later, Nanami is busy finding a job, ...
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My Rainy Days (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Because of her past, 17-year-old Rio lives her days filling the emptiness in her heart with money--until one day, she meets a university professor named Kouki and falls in love.
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My Brother Loves Me Too Much (2017)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Setoka Tachibana is a female high school student who has confessed her feelings to other boys 12 times, but has been rebuffed each time. Her older brother Haruka Tachibana cares for his younger sister deeply, but he keeps secret from her that they ...
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Place: japan
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Hanamizuki (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Sae (Yui Aragaki) is a high school student who is studying hard for her college entrance exams. She lost her father when she was very young and so lives with her mother Ryoko (Hiroko Yakushimaru) in Hokkaido, Japan. Her father Kemimichi (Arata) once ...
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From Me To You (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Sawako Kuronuma, called Sadako by her classmates for her resemblance to the character from Ring, has always been feared and misunderstood because of her appearance. There are rumors that Sawako can see ghosts and curse people. However, despite her ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
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Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick
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Place: japan
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Make a Bow and Kiss (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Based on the comic book by Yakko Kaga
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Audience: teens, teen drama
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Time: 21st century
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Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Tsugumi Kawana (Hana Sugisaki) works at an interior design company. She happens to meet her first love Itsuki Ayukawa (Takanori Iwata) from her high school days. He is now an architect and in a wheelchair because of an accident. --asianwiki
Style: sincere, captivating, crying
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Duration: 106 min.
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Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
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Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
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Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min.
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Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
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Country: Japan
Duration: 78 min.
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Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min.
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