Movies like Voices in the Wind

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Voices in the Wind (2020)
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Voices in the Wind (2020)
Original name: 風の電話
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min.
Story: In her search for answers, 17-year-old Haru sets out on a long journey across the country to the town where, in 2011, the devastating tsunami swept away her brother and parents. This road trip takes the young woman, who is still haunted by her loss, from Hiroshima to Tokyo and Fukushima and all the way to Ōtsuchi, where her family home once stood. On the way she encounters other people, other stories, other lives and other losses. Landscapes and faces. The journey ends in the middle of a garden in full bloom among the scarred surroundings of her coastal hometown.. In it stands a telephone box which, even though it is no longer connected, is used to speak to those who cannot be reached any other way.
Style: independent film, road movie, crying, intercultural, inter cultural
Plot: high school student, sadness, coming of age, earthquake, human relationship, reproduction, tsunami, train, escape, pregnancy, truck, death, mother, restaurant, hospital, driver, on the road, orphan, schoolgirl, boat, photograph, old age, girl, brother sister relationship, telephone call ...
Place: japan, hiroshima japan

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out crying, captivating, realistic and sincere films with plots about japanese girl, mini skirt, short skirt, schoolgirl, brunette, japanese schoolgirl and girl wearing a miniskirt mostly in Drama, Family and Horror genres. Some movies like Voices in the Wind: I Just Didn't Do It (2006), A Story of Yonosuke (2012), Tokyo Family (2013), Life Back Then (2011), Her Love Boils Bathwater (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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