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Ride Your Wave (2019)
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Ride Your Wave (2019)
Original name: きみと、波にのれたら
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Hinako is a surf-loving college student who has just moved to a small seaside town. When a sudden fire breaks out at her apartment building, she is rescued by Minato, a handsome firefighter, and the two soon fall in love. Just as they become inseparable, Minato loses his life in an accident at sea. Hinako is so distraught that she can no longer even look at the ocean, but one day she sings a song that reminds her of their time together, and Minato appears in the water. From then on, she can summon him in any watery surface as soon as she sings their song, but can the two really remain together forever? And what is the real reason for Minato’s sudden reappearance?
Style: anime, touching, feel good, romantic, sweet, captivating, light, sincere, shoujo, corny ...
Plot: beach, slice of life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love, tragedy, friendship, love and romance, surfing, fire, fall in love, firefighter, loss, relationships, surfer, romantic friendship, romantic relationship, in love, girl, love affair, high school, love story, loss of loved one, couple relations, teenager, asian ...
Time: 2010s

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, touching, captivating and romantic films with plots about slice of life, love, friendship, teenager, high school, relationships and love and romance mostly in Animation, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Ride Your Wave: Weathering with You (2019), Josee, the Tiger and the Fish (2020), I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (2018), Your Name. (2016), Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Weathering with You (2019)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan, China
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Hodaka, a high school boy who moves from his isolated island home to the city of Tokyo, who immediately becomes broke! After finally finding work at a shady occult magazine, the sky rains every day until amidst the hustle and bustle of the big city, ...
Style: anime, touching, exciting, captivating, feel good ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: weather, friendship, fall in love, teenager, love, magic, couples, girl, climate change, magical girl, magical power, summer ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Josee, the Tiger and the Fish (2020)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A youth romantic drama with themes of growing up, the story focuses on college student Tsuneo and dreamer Josee, who lives her life stuck in a wheelchair. Josee—named after the heroine in Françoise Sagan’s Wonderful Clouds—spends most of her ...
Style: anime, sincere, captivating
Plot: relationships, lifestyle change, woman in a wheelchair, love, teenage life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, lifestyle, teenager, slice of life, wheelchair bound, disabled child, disability ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (2018)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Spring time in April and the last of the cherry blossoms are still in bloom. The usually aloof bookworm with no interest in others comes across a book in a hospital waiting room. Handwritten on the cover are the words: "Living with Dying." ...
Style: anime, sincere, disturbing, romantic, thought provoking ...
Audience: teens
Plot: tragedy, friendship, teenage life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage girl, love story, teenage boy, romantic relationship, bucket list, fall in love, love and romance, friends ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Your Name. (2016)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story: High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body, and he in hers. This bizarre occurrence continues to happen randomly, and the two must ...
Style: anime, sweet, touching, melancholic, romantic ...
Audience: teens, date night, kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: time travel, body swapping, school, beautiful scenery, friendship, girl, love, destiny, teenager, schoolgirl, memory loss, boy ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, 2020s, year 2013
Place: tokyo, japan, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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To the Forest of Firefly Lights (2011)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min.
Story: One hot summer day a little girl gets lost in an enchanted forest of the mountain god where spirits reside. A young boy appears before her, but she cannot touch him for fear of making him disappear. And so a wondrous adventure awaits...
Style: anime, touching, exciting, sincere, sad ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: spirit, childhood, friendship, slice of life, forest, love, supernatural, folklore, nature, little girl, summer, countryside ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You (2009)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Story: Kuronuma Sawako is completely misunderstood by her classmates. Her timid and sweet demeanor is often mistaken for malicious behavior. This is due to her resemblance to the ghost girl from "The Ring," which has led her peers to give her the ...
Style: anime, shoujo, touching, sweet, romantic ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When 17-year-old Makoto Konno gains the ability to, quite literally, "leap" backwards through time, she immediately sets about improving her grades and preventing personal mishaps. However, she soon realises that changing the past ...
Style: anime, touching, feel good, humorous, manga ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night
Plot: time travel, high school, friendship, supernatural ability, teenage girl, school, classmate, changing the past or future, time loop, coming of age, teenage love, friends ...
Time: future, 2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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A Silent Voice (2016)
Genre: Animation, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Shouya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class, Shouko Nishimiya, because she is deaf. But as the teasing continues, the rest of the class starts to turn on Shouya for his lack of compassion. When they leave elementary school, Shouko and Shouya ...
Style: anime, touching, sincere, romantic, sweet ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: teenager, bullying, disability, deaf, sign language, friendship, high school, japanese schoolgirl, japanese school, coming of age, deafness, suicide attempt ...
Time: 2010s
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Violet Evergarden: The Movie (2020)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min.
Story: The official website of the "Violet Evergarden" animated TV series announced an all-new animated film for the series on Monday that will have a simultaneous worldwide release in January 2020. Plot details are unknown.
Style: anime, touching, serious, non-linear, melancholic
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms (2018)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A story of encounters and partings interwoven between people; this is a human drama with feelings that touch one's heart gradually, which everyone has experienced at least once.
Style: anime, touching, thought provoking, sentimental, sincere ...
Audience: date night
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Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Love Me, Love Me Not (2020)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Yuna and Akari are two high school girls with very different views on love: Yuna dreams about romance through rose-coloured glasses, while Akari is down-to-earth and practical. Meanwhile, high school boys Kazuomi and Rio also have different views on ...
Style: anime, captivating, light, shoujo, romantic ...
Plot: in love, love affair, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, fall in love, love story, schoolgirl, relationships, friendship, friends, teenage life, couple relations, schoolboy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Horimiya (2021)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Story: A secret life is the one thing they have in common. At school, Hori is a prim and perfect social butterfly, but the truth is she’s a brash homebody. Meanwhile, under a gloomy facade, Miyamura hides a gentle heart, along with piercings and tattoos. ...
Style: anime, captivating, entertaining, light, romantic comedy ...
Plot: teenage life, relationships, love, love affair, slice of life, couple relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage girl, friendship, high school life, friends, teenager ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A young girl had her voice magically taken away so that she would never hurt people with it, but her outlook changes when she encounters music and friendship. Will Naruse be able to convey the anthem of her heart?
Style: anime, sincere, touching, psychological, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Fruits Basket (2019)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
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Audience: teens
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Time: 90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Fruits Basket (2001)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Story: Tohru Honda is 16 year old orphaned girl who gets invited to live in the house of her classmate, the handsome boy Sohma Yuki, and his cousins, 16 year old Kyo and 27 year old Shigure. However, these young men and parts of the rest of their family ...
Style: anime, shoujo, touching, exciting, feel good ...
Audience: teens, date night, kids
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Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Our Love Has Always Been 10 Centimeters Apart. (2017)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
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Story: Miou Aida and Haruki Serizawa might seem like polar opposites to those around them, but as the two third-years prepare to end their high school experience, they couldn't have been been closer. While Miou is a shy and reserved member of the ...
Style: anime, romantic, captivating, entertaining, light
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 87 min.
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Style: anime, sincere, romantic, captivating, disturbing ...
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Tamako Love Story (2014)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Devoted to her family’s rice-cake–making business and the high school baton club, Tamako is a little slow when it comes to love. She’s oblivious to her childhood friend Mochizo’s affections, even though all their friends know. With ...
Style: anime, touching, sweet, romantic, feel good ...
Plot: slice of life, young love, teenage love, unrequited love, coming of age, classmate, childhood friend, family relations, teenage boy, adolescence, family problems, first love ...
Place: japan
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From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The story is set in 1963 in Yokohama. Kokuriko Manor sits on a hill overlooking the harbour. A 16 year-old girl, Umi, lives in that house. Every morning she raises a signal flag facing the sea. The flag means “I pray for safe voyages”. A 17 ...
Style: anime, touching, sentimental, atmospheric, sweet ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, teen drama
Plot: high school, friendship, destiny, teenage life, fighting the system, love and romance, self discovery, teenage love, longing, high school life, twists and turns, happy ending ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 2010s, year 1963
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU (2013)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Story: Hachiman Hikigaya is an antisocial high school student with no friends or girlfriend and as a result has a distorted view on life. When he sees his classmates talking excitedly about their adolescent lives, he mutters, "They're a bunch of ...
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Audience: teens, girls' night, family outing
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Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In Fujisawa, Sakuta Azusagawa is in his second year of high school. Blissful days with his girlfriend and upperclassman, Mai Sakurajima, are interrupted by the appearance of his first crush, Shoko Makinohara.
Style: anime, sincere, psychological, touching, emotional ...
Plot: teenage life, love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, ex couple relations, love and romance, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, couple relations, teenage love, love triangle, love affair, love story, love interest ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Violet Evergarden (2018)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Story: The war is over, and Violet Evergarden needs a job. Scarred and emotionless, she takes a job as a letter writer to understand herself and her past.
Style: anime, touching, captivating, serious, melancholic ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Her Blue Sky (2019)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story: High school student Aoi lives with her elder sister, Akane, after a tragic accident took their parents away 13 years ago. Because Akane has since been taking care of her single-handedly, Aoi wants to move to Tokyo after her graduation to relieve her ...
Style: anime, touching, uplifting, exciting, captivating ...
Plot: lost love, loss of family, music, love and romance, young love, teenage love, time traveler, self doubt, supernatural, first love, talent, teenager ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Fireworks (2017)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Schoolchildren Norimichi, Yuusuke, and Junichi want to know if fireworks look round or flat from the side. They make a plan to find the answer at a fireworks display, while Nazuna schemes to run away with Norimichi or Yuusuke, whoever wins at the ...
Style: anime, exciting, feel good, light, captivating ...
Audience: family outing
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Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
The Stranger by the Beach (2020)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 59 min.
Story: On an island off the coast of Okinawa, two young men meet on a beach: Shun Hashimoto, a gay novelist and Mio Chibana, a somber high school student. Day by day, the two of them grow closer, but then, suddenly, Mio decides to leave the island. They ...
Style: anime, yaoi, romantic, touching, scenic ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, youth, encounter, boys love, love, love and romance, gay teenager, sex scene, homosexual, first love, teenager ...
Place: japan, okinawa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day - The Movie (2013)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A year has passed since Menma's ghostly return to the Super Peace Busters. Although the time they spent together during that summer was short, the five members reminisce about what happened as they each write a letter to their lost friend.
Style: anime, psychological, emotional, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: friendship, supernatural, unrequited love, ghost, love triangle, teenage love, high school life, fall in love, teenage life, haunted by the past, youth, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Call of the Night (2022)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Nanakusa is a vampire. That's okay with human Ko. He wants to be one too. But transformation doesn't come that easily... When Nazuna invites Ko to spend the night at her place in an abandoned building, he's stoked! But then he ...
Style: anime, entertaining, captivating, romantic, semi serious ...
Plot: vampire, slice of life, vampire bite, love affair, supernatural, relationships, female vampire, supernatural being, fall in love, love interest, vampire girl, love and romance ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Moment You Fall in Love (2016)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 63 min.
Story: Following Natsuki Enomoto's confession rehearsals with Yuu Setoguchi, their younger siblings Kotarou and Hina struggle to confess their own love. Despite a disastrous first meeting in middle school with her upperclassman Koyuki Ayase, Hina’s ...
Style: anime, touching, entertaining, romantic, sincere ...
Plot: friendship between teens, high school hunk, unspoken love, high school, rivalry, teenage love, high school life, friendship, love interest, fall in love, love story, romantic relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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