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The Great Passage (2013)
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The Great Passage (2013)
Original name: 舟を編む
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Majime, an eccentric man in publishing company, who has unique ability of words, joins the team that will compile a new dictionary, ‘The Great Passage.’ In the eclectic team, he becomes immersed in the world of dictionaries. But the team is overwhelmed with problems. Will ‘The Great Passage’ ever be completed?
Style: sentimental, sincere, feel good, serious, realistic, thought provoking, sweet, poignant
Audience: date night
Plot: workplace, fall in love, love and romance, obsession, social misfits, workplace situations, depression, asian, socially awkward, unsuccessful, japanese culture, teamwork, band, romance
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: japan, asia
Keyword: dictionary

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Triumph in the Skies (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Young pilot Branson (Louis Koo) recently takes over Skylette, his father's aviation empire, only to realise his old flames Cassie (Charmaine Sheh) is a flight attendant there. Several years ago, he was forced to break up with her and move to ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, captivating, feel good
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: unfulfilled love, fall in love, lovers reunited, workplace romance, workplace, workplace situations, love and romance, unfulfillment, bittersweet, pilot, adaptation, opposites attract
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia, hong kong
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Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns an adolescent boy, Boku - Masaya, torn between the inherited recklessness of his father Oton and the inherited responsibility, wisdom and ...
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Five Hours from Paris (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Only 5 flight hours from Paris, in a working-class suburb of Tel Aviv, two people meet. He is a bred-and-born Israeli and she is a Russian immigrant. He is a taxi driver and she is a music teacher. He has no aspirations. She gave up hers long ago. ...
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Place: israel
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Hill of Freedom (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 66 min.
Story: A Japanese man arrives in Korea to find his old lover. While he stays at a guest house, he encounters various people.
Style: sentimental, realistic, serious, non-linear, cerebral
Plot: fall in love, love and romance, obsession, unfulfillment, unfulfilled love, haunted by the past, bittersweet, restaurant, asian, cafe, dog, dinner ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: korea, south korea, seoul
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Tokyo Noir (2004)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 127 min.
Story: In this excursion into Tokyo's dark side, a sexually repressed woman finds liberation by turning tricks at night a sex worker is taken by surprise when her ex drops by and a sex blogger finds strange kinship with a loner.
Style: serious, sincere, touching, realistic
Plot: city life, prostitute, singleness, couples, lifestyle, strong female presence, urban
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Place: japan, tokyo, asia
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Bright Future (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
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Eureka (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 217 min.
Story: In Kyushu, southwest Japan, one hot summer morning, a municipal bus is hijacked. In the carnage only three people survive: the driver, a school girl, and her older brother.
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Duration: 72 min.
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 93 min.
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Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
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