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Okko's Inn (2018)
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Original name: 若おかみは小学生！
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
12-year-old Oriko Seki, who lost her parents in a car accident, ended up living in her grandmother's Onsen Ryokan "Haru no Ya." With the ghost "Uribou" cohabitating with her and all the other odds, she ended up training to be a young female innkeeper. At first, she didn't like the training, but gradually felt her admiration for her title and began to train seriously. Thus, the growth of the young warrior Oriko begins.
Style:
anime, exciting, feel good, captivating, light, thought provoking, manga, crying
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
orphan, grandmother granddaughter relationship, ghost, innkeeper, supernatural, dream, school, teacher, spirit, childhood memory, spider, illness, loss of father, loss of mother, grandparent grandchild relationship, inn, teenager, countryside, slice of life, train, undercover, schoolgirl, photograph, female writer, car accident ...
Place:
japan
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, captivating, manga and whimsical films with plots about friendship, coming of age, girl, supernatural, magic, teenager and magic realism mostly in Animation, Fantasy and Family genres. Some movies like Okko's Inn: Spirited Away (2001), Kiki's Delivery Service (1989), A Letter to Momo (2011), Penguin Highway (2018), Howl's Moving Castle (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Story:
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Story:
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100%
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Country: Japan
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Story:
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Audience:
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Country: Japan
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Story:
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100%
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Story:
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Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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20K
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Country: Japan
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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100%
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Story:
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Story:
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20K
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Story:
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22K
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Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
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Style:
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Similarity:
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