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Hibiki (2018)
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Hibiki (2018)
Original name: 響 -HIBIKI-
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story: One day, literature magazine “Mokuren” receives a manuscript script for novel “Otogi no Niwa” by Hibiki Aku, a sensitive 15-year-old girl with a talent for writing.
Style: psychological, unusual plot structure, melancholic, semi serious, whimsical, weird
Plot: teenager, schoolgirl, writers, art, mentor, loneliness, friendship, dialogue, self discovery, female protagonist, adolescence, creativity, life philosophy, workplace, hopes, adolescence vs adulthood, honest, violence, photographer, beach, book, father, lion, zoo, father daughter relationship ...
Place: tokyo

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, sincere and realistic films with plots about schoolgirl, girl wearing a miniskirt, mini skirt, short skirt, japanese schoolgirl, japanese girl and teenager mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Hibiki: I Just Didn't Do It (2006), Tokyo Shutter Girl (2013), Paradise Kiss (2011), Love & Pop (1998), Dream of Illumination (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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I Just Didn't Do It (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 143 min.
Story: A young man fights for his freedom after he is accused of groping a girl on train.
Plot: courtroom, prison, lawyer, courtroom drama, moving, cop, misandrist, japanese police, liar, heterosexuality, japanese schoolgirl, public defender ...
Place: japan
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Tokyo Shutter Girl (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The movie Tokyo Shutter Girl, based on the comic series by Kenichi Kiriki, consists of three separate works by three separate directors, each set in Tokyo. It is about three Japanese schoolgirls in a photo club.
Style: anthology, sexual
Plot: japanese girl, skirt, sexy girl, maiden, japanese schoolgirl, sexy teenager, japanese teenager, skin, photography, teenage girl, discovery, high school ...
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Paradise Kiss (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Hyasaka Yukari only wants one thing: to enter the college that her mom wants. One day, she meets an extravagant group that loves fashion. They were searching for a model and Yukari fits their ideal model. From now Yukari will know the world of ...
Style: sentimental, shoujo, romantic, captivating, anime ...
Plot: fashion, fall in love, youth, social relations, love and romance, hottie, sexy brunette, fashion industry, student, fashion show, fashion designer, mannequin ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, east asia, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Love & Pop (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Pretty Tokyo teen Hiromi Yoshii (Asumi Miwa) and her girlfriends struggle with rivalries, clothes and boyfriends, just like any other high school clique. But out for kicks and blind to the consequences, the girls of Love & Pop hide a dirty ...
Style: disturbing, serious, realistic, witty, sexual ...
Plot: pretty girl, hot chick, dating, japanese girl, feminine wiles, prostitution, teenager, coming of age, exploitation, love letter, passion, puberty ...
Time: 90s
Place: tokyo, japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Dream of Illumination (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Noboru (Yuya Takagawa) runs a real estate agency in a provincial city. He is cold-blooded when it comes to make a sale. His daughter is high school senior Nana (Sara Shida). Nana has continuously changed schools due to her father's work. She ...
Plot: realtor, countryside, salesman, father daughter relationship, japanese girl, schoolgirl, japanese schoolgirl, real estate, cycling, wind, legs, school uniform ...
Place: tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
March Comes in Like a Lion 2 (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min.
Story: The time spent between professional Shogi player Kiriyama and his three stories helps to heal his wounds. As he prepares to secure another win in an upcoming tournament, the father who left the three sisters appears and disturbs the peace.
Style: captivating, crying, weeping
Plot: friend, adoptive father, japanese teenager, teenage life, teenager, athlete's life, mean girl, game playing, sibling relationship, narration, feeling, teacher ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Adult World (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Amy, a naive college graduate who believes she's destined to be a great poet, begrudgingly accepts a job at a sex shop while she pursues a mentorship with reclusive writer Rat Billings.
Style: sexy, independent film, melancholic, teen, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: art, coming of age, poetry, sex shop, workplace, self discovery, writers, loneliness, creativity, adolescence vs adulthood, workplace situations, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Dear Friends (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: High school student Rina has a bad attitude and thinks that friends are something that you use when you need them. She doesn't have any real relationships and is not even on good terms with her parents. Rina is the clubbing queen and could get ...
Style: captivating, sexy
Plot: friendship, hospital, sexy woman, illness, deception, husband wife relationship, cancer patient, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, male female relationship, social relations, friends, fighting illness ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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A Gentle Breeze in the Village (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Based on a popular manga, the film is a tender coming-of-age love story set deep in Japan's countryside. When eighth grade cool guy Hiromi transfers from Tokyo to a small elementary/middle school with only six kids enrolled, wholesome and ...
Style: disturbing, sincere, captivating, romantic
Plot: schoolgirl, teenager, first love, japanese teenager, village life, true love, school, countryside, teenage girl, teenage life, love and romance, couple relations ...
Place: tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
A Story of Yonosuke (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 160 min.
Story: The year is 1987 and Japan is just reaching the peak of its economic success. Eighteen-year old Yonosuke Yokomichi arrives in Tokyo from Nagasaki. Ordinary in every way possible, he lives in a suburb far from the excitement of the big city and ...
Style: psychological, realistic, tense, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: university, dating, cheerleader, student, dancing, public, father son relationship, flirting, getting home, asian, friendship, love and romance ...
Time: year 1987
Place: tokyo, japan, tanzania
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
The Tale of Iya (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 169 min.
Story: It was summer when a stranger from Tokyo arrived at “Iya”, where the riches of nature still abound. This young man, named Kudo, was willing to live his new, self-sufficient life. He was exhausted by city life, and believed this beautiful land ...
Style: captivating, exciting, touching, contemplative, silent
Plot: teenage girl, japanese teenager, schoolgirl, pig, teenager, school, japanese girl, japanese school, police, police officer, dancing, scientist ...
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Demon Covered in Scars (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Mai (Rika Adachi) is a high school student. She attends a new school and there she meets her classmate Shino (Manami Enosawa). Shino was bullied by Mai's friends back in their middle school days. Table have now turned.
Style: tense, captivating, psychological
Plot: bullying, bully, japanese schoolgirl, schoolgirl, new friend, adolescence, school, teenage life, teenager, life is a bitch, social problems, new student ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Au revoir l'été (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: 3 years on from hospitalité, Kiki Sugino and Koji Fukada are back again with this socially-conscious film about a 18-year-old girl in-between adolescence and adulthood who spends a summer in a valley and enjoys romance. Sakuko, a 18-year-old girl ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, captivating, sincere, serious ...
Plot: slut, introspection, dating, youth, couples, social relations, small town, niece, self discovery, summer vacation, friendship, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Hot Gimmick: Girl Meets Boy (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A quiet teen's life is shaken up when she's forced to be her arrogant neighbor's slave. He loves her, but they both have a lot to learn about trust.
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot: japanese teenager, bullying, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, japanese girl, girlfriend boyfriend relationship, relationships, love affair, life is a bitch, love interest, relationship problems, couple relations, apartment
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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 ...
Style: sexy, anime, shoujo, sincere, light ...
Plot: high school crush, nubile girl, teenager, jealousy, school, classmate, family relations, friendship, couples, rivalry, society, happy ending ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
About the Pink Sky (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story: High school student Izumi Kawashima, whose daily routine is rating newspaper articles, finds a wallet containing a large sum of cash. Instead of returning the wallet to its owner, Izumi decides to lend a substantial portion of the money to a ...
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, atmospheric, offbeat ...
Plot: high school, best friend, social relations, youth, high school life, teenage life, friends, moral dilemma, photographer, teenager, journalism, profanity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Reprise (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Two competitive friends, fueled by literary aspirations and youthful exuberance, endure the pangs of love, depression and burgeoning careers.
Style: depressing, melancholic, captivating, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: friendship, depression, writers, self discovery, cathartic, suicide attempt, love triangle, ambition, rise and fall, follow your dream, health situation, nervous breakdown ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: scandinavia, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Kanazawa Shutter Girl (2018)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The girls are good friends at junior high school. Three of them seem to adjust and move forward upon entering high school, but the fourth of them is not having a seamless time of it. High school is not comfortable and the transition is full of ...
Style: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
Audience: family outing
Plot: japanese schoolgirl, coming of age, high school, schoolgirl, socially awkward, social problems, teenage girl, teenager, social issues, teenage life, skirt, pretty girl ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Her Love Boils Bathwater (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A terminally ill single mother is determined to reconcile her splintered family.
Style: psychological, sincere, captivating, melancholic, sentimental ...
Plot: japanese woman, bullying, father daughter relationship, east asian woman, terminal illness, siblings, diagnosis, cancer, husband wife relationship, schoolgirl, runaway, dead mother ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, mount fuji, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 5.8
 63
Heart Beats (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When Tsukasa was a middle school student, she had a crush on transfer student Hayato and even confessed her feelings to him. She was turned down by Hayato. Now, Tsukasa and Hayato are classmates in high school. Hayato treats Tsukasa as just a ...
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological, romantic
Plot: fall in love, male female relationship, romantic relationship, love affair, teenage love, teenager, in love, couple relations, teenage protagonist, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love and romance, teenage life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Pieta in the Toilet (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Hiroshi (Yojiro Noda) has given up on his dreams of becoming a painter and works part-time cleaning office windows. He learns that he has only 3 months left to live. During his last summer, high school student Mai (Hana Sugisaki) appears. Hiroshi ...
Style: sincere, psychological, captivating, touching, disturbing ...
Plot: illness, terminal illness, cancer, drawing, painting, sick, japanese teenager, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenager, teenage girl, student, couple relations ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Until the Break of Dawn (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story: High school student Ayumi is trained by his grandmother to act as a "tsunagu," an intermediary for people who want to reach the dead.
Plot: instructor, trainee, coach, capture, photograph, schoolgirl, talking to the dead, cell phone, rehearsal, golf, mother and daughter, rivals ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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The Girl in the Book (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
Style: captivating, psychological, serious, realistic
Plot: aspiring writer, book, nymphet, abuse, writers, job, journal, secret, female protagonist, one night stand, party, betrayal ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 5.8
 154
The Red Thread (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Mei has been in love with Yuya all her life. They've grown up together. But when they reach their second year of middle school, Yuya suddenly professes his love for her older sister, Haruna.
Style: captivating, psychological
Plot: teenage life, adolescence, teen romance, couple relations, grownups, romantic relationship, teenage girl, male female relationship, couples, teenage protagonist, spirituality, dysfunctional family ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
The Furthest End Awaits (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Set at the edge of the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, with its beautiful scenic views, the film revolves around two women from different backgrounds who develop a friendship, and how they begin to influence and change each other’s ...
Style: sexy
Plot: sexy woman, skin, beach, feminine beauty, lost at sea, broken promise, fisherman, theft, coffee shop, attempted rape, coffee, loss of father ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 5.9
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Sundome 2 (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A teenage girl transfers to a new high school. She and a boy in the class join the same school club and during one of the activities she confides in him that she was previously a male. Later admitting that the sex change was a lie, she agrees to ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, manga
Plot: sexuality, girl, schoolgirl, teenage life, teenage girl, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, deception, adolescence, teenager, teenage love, relationship problems, school club ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
The Travelling Cat Chronicles (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Nana is the cutest girl. She is also smart and aware of her talents. She has paws and purrs. Her father Satoru cannot take of her anymore and must give her up. He searches for someone to take care of Nana and begins visiting people who may be good ...
Style: touching, sentimental, crying
Plot: cat, friendship, adventurer, journey, pet cat, travel, student, life, terminal illness, animal, pets, anxiety ...
Place: mount fuji, kyoto japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Chronicle of My Mother (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Best-selling novelist Kosaku Igami has made a career out of using his family as fodder for his novels, much to their dismay. When his mother, the spirited family matriarch, is diagnosed with dementia, Igami must come to terms with the toll his own ...
Style: captivating, sincere, semi autobiographical, crying
Plot: father, father daughter relationship, baby, husband wife relationship, parent grown child relationship, family problems, family relations, parent child relationship, kids and family, fatherhood, life, relationship problems ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Make a Bow and Kiss (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Based on the comic book by Yakko Kaga
Style: sweet, captivating, light, romantic, crying ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: female bare legs, japanese teenager, dating, sexy brunette, crush, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage girl, love, child neglect, teenage crush, father son relationship, tournament ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, japan, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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