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Survival Family (2016)
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Original name: サバイバルファミリー
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A world wide electrical outage occurs. Everything that requires electricity comes to a stop. Tokyo is nearly ruined. Yoshiyuki Suzuki (Fumiyo Kohinata) decides to escape from Tokyo with his family.
Style:
road movie, humorous, psychological, light, feel good, art house
Plot:
japanese teenager, japanese wife, food shortage, japanese school, parent child relationship, soldier, hunger, countryside, water shortage, japanese military, animal cruelty, blackout, apocalypse, family relations, society, dog, survival, village, school, money, police officer, train, army, police, food ...
Place:
tokyo
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Shakey is a family film about a 35-year-old widower named J.T. O'Neil, his precocious 10-year-old daughter and their devoted mutt Shakey. After moving from a small town to Chicago and missing the fine print in their rental contract, J.T. is ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A bittersweet coming-of-age film based on a novel dealing with forestry. Yuki Hirano wants to live an easy life, like working a part-time job after his high school graduation. But, after his high school graduation, Yuki hears from his homeroom ...
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Asahi Tojima (Nanase Nishino) is a first grade high school student. She is small and weak physically. Asahi Tojima decides to change herself. She enrolls in the naginata (Japanese blade) club at her school. She works hard with the other club members ...
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
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Shiwasu's mother left their home when Shiwasu was a little girl. Shiwasu does not understand why. She is a woman now and working at a Shinto shrine as a shrine maiden under her father who is a priest. She is listless until she finds a little ...
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Yukina Toriyama (Tao Tsuchiya) enters a university of science after prepping for one year for her entrance exam. At first, she is shocked by the atmosphere at her school. She becomes attracted to senior student Kei (Mahiro Takasugi). Due to Kei, ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: Canada
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Duration: 120 min.
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Country: Switzerland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Four kids - Eugen, Wrigley, Bäschteli and Eduard - leave for an adventure around Switzerland, searching for the fabulous treasure of Titicaca Lake, discovered by Fritzli Bühler.
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Story:
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Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Country: Japan
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Story:
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