Movies like Twilight 2019

If you like "Twilight" you are looking for anime, sincere and atmospheric movies about / with slice of life, prodigy, music, friendship, depression, art and high school life themes of Animation, Drama and Romance genre shot in Japan.
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Twilight (2019)
Original name: 薄暮
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 52 min.
Story: Hakubo tells the story of two young people who live in rural Fukushima: Sachi Koyama, a girl who excels at playing the violin, and Yuusuke Kijinami, a boy who loves to paint. After an awkward, chance encounter, the two meet and begin to fall in love, but Yuusuke is still living in the shadow of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.
Style: anime, sincere, atmospheric, uplifting, touching, emotional, stylized, independent film
Audience: teens
Plot: slice of life, prodigy, music, friendship, depression, art, high school life, classical music, violinist, school, natural disaster, catastrophe, child prodigy, student, disaster, injury, school life
Place: japan

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Most similar movies to Twilight

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, touching, humorous and sincere films with plots about friendship, high school life, school, slice of life, high school, love and romance and coming of age mostly in Animation, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Twilight: Whisper of the Heart (1995), Your Lie in April (2014), The Anthem of the Heart (2015), The Garden of Words (2013), Say "I love you" (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Whisper of the Heart (1995)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Shizuku lives a simple life, dominated by her love for stories and writing. One day she notices that all the library books she has have been previously checked out by the same person: 'Seiji Amasawa'. Curious as to who he is, Shizuku meets ...
Style: anime, touching, feel good, uplifting, emotional ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, pre-teens, family friendly ...
Plot: imagination, self discovery, school, teenage life, high school life, follow your dream, love, youth, fall in love, teenage love, love and romance, cat ...
Time: 90s, year 1995, 20th century
Place: japan, tokyo, europe, asia, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Your Lie in April (2014)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Kousei Arima was a genius pianist until his mother's sudden death took away his ability to play. Each day was dull for Kousei. But, then he meets a violinist named Kaori Miyazono who has an eccentric playing style. Can the heartfelt sounds of ...
Style: anime, touching, stylized, semi serious, uplifting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, pianist, piano, classical music, death of mother, violinist, contests and competitions, music, love and romance, depression, school, trauma ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Anthem of the Heart (2015)
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
Plot: friendship, school, mute, healing, love and romance, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, musical performance, singing, daydreamer, high school, japanese high school ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Garden of Words (2013)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 46 min.
Story: Takao, who is training to become a shoemaker, skipped school and is sketching shoes in a Japanese-style garden. He meets a mysterious woman, Yukino, who is older than him. Then, without arranging the times, the two start to see each other again and ...
Style: anime, touching, sweet, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: shoemaker, rain, age difference, youth, grownups, unlikely couple, overcoming, older woman younger man relationship, shyness, teenage life, teen angst, love and romance ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: tokyo, japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Say "I love you" (2012)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Friends suck, and trusting someone is just setting yourself up. That's the lesson Mei Tachibana learned after her heart was ripped out and only a shell was left where a girl used to be. But unlike so many, she found an easy solution: ...
Style: anime, shoujo, touching, emotional, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school life, friendship, first love, teenage love, troubled past, friends, fall in love, school, teenage life, youth, haunted by the past, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Ocean Waves (1993)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min.
Story: At Kichijōji Station, Tokyo, Taku Morisaki glimpses a familiar woman on the platform opposite boarding a train. Later, her photo falls from a shelf as he exits his apartment before flying to Kōchi Prefecture. Picking it up, he looks at it briefly ...
Style: anime, realistic, adult animation, serious, sincere ...
Audience: teens, kids, date night
Plot: friendship, love triangle, unspoken love, teenage love, love and romance, youth, friends, thoughtful, coming of age, daily life, divorce, relationships ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU (2013)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
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 ...
Style: anime, touching, realistic, humorous, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, family outing
Plot: youth, friendship, society, love and romance, school, high school, slice of life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, male female relationship, love, teenage girl, high school life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
100%
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Orange: Future (2016)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 63 min.
Story: Twenty-six-year-old Hiroto Suwa; his wife, Naho; and their old high school classmates—Takako Chino, Azusa Murasaka, and Saku Hagita—visit Mt. Koubou to view the cherry blossoms together. While watching the setting sun, they reminisce about ...
Style: anime, psychological, disturbing, captivating, tragic ending ...
Plot: school, high school life, lifestyle, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love story, relationship problems, teenage life, teenager, love triangle, love affair, relationships, time travel
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
I've Always Liked You (2016)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 63 min.
Story: Love is blooming at Sakuragaoka High School. Natsuki Enomoto has finally mustered the courage to confess to her childhood friend, Yuu Setoguchi. However, in the final moments of her confession, an embarrassed Natsuki passes it off as a ...
Style: anime, entertaining, sentimental, sweet, humorous ...
Plot: unrequited love, japanese school, high school sweetheart, love, love triangle, boy girl friendship, romantic friendship, friendship, lie, friendship between teens, japanese schoolgirl, japanese teenager ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Clannad: The Motion Picture (2007)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Clannad is set in a high-school located in some Japanese town. Okazaki Tomoya is a third-year student who doesn't take his studies seriously. Always late for class, he's seen as a delinquent by the rest of his classmates who are busy ...
Style: anime, touching, emotional, sincere, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, teenage life, youth, high school, love and romance, high school life, love, death of mother, student, father son relationship, death, death of wife ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 ⇓
34%
Iroduku: The World in Colors (2018)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Set in the city of Nagasaki, the story takes place in a world where a miniscule amount of magic remains in everyday life. Hitomi Tsukishiro is a 17-year-old descendant of a witch family who grew up with stale emotions, as she lost her sense of color ...
Style: anime, shoujo, captivating, feel good, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: magic, friendship, time travel, school, drawing, painting, fall in love, coming of age, popularity, workplace, photography, high school life ...
Time: future
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Take On Me (2018)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Yuuta and Rikka are in their third year of high school. One day in Spring, Touka declares that she will take Rikka to Italy with her, as her job has stabilized there and thinks they should migrate together as a family. Touka is also worried about ...
Style: anime, road movie, sincere, captivating, light ...
Plot: school, young love, on the road, spring break, friendship, everyday life, couples, society, family relations, slice of life, high school, first kiss ...
Place: japan, tokyo, hokkaido
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Love and Lies (2017)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: In a futuristic society, Japan has implemented a complex system referred to as "The Red Threads of Science" to encourage successful marriages and combat increasingly low birthrates. Based on a compatibility calculation, young people at the ...
Style: anime, touching, suspenseful, sentimental, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: love triangle, unrequited love, adolescence, relationships, couple relations, teenage life, teenage love, new love, romantic friendship, friendship between teens, young love, love at first sight ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Nodame Cantabile (2007)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Shinichi Chiaki is a first class musician whose dream is to play among the elites in Europe. Coming from a distinguished family, he is an infamous perfectionist; not only is he highly critical of himself, but of others as well. The only thing ...
Style: anime, feel good, captivating, light, humorous ...
Plot: music, orchestra conductor, musician, classical music, university, slice of life, coming of age, pianist, love, rivalry, fall in love, friendship ...
Place: japan, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Kono Oto Tomare!: Sounds of Life (2019)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Since the graduation of the senior members of the club, Takezou ends up being the sole member of the "Koto" (traditional Japanese string instrument) club. Now that the new school year has begun, Takezou will have to seek out new members ...
Style: anime, humorous, sincere, sentimental, entertaining ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, competition, slice of life, school, music, love and romance, friends, school club, training, fall in love, musician, high school life ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
March Comes in Like a Lion (2016)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Rei is a 17-year old professional shōgi player, who lives by himself, not having a real family, and has scarcely any friends. Among his acquaintances is a family, which consists of a young woman, Akari, and two young girls, Hinata and Momo, and who ...
Style: anime, sincere, semi serious, adult animation, seinen ...
Plot: slice of life, depression, bullying, competition, high school life, everyday life, sister sister relationship, dysfunctional family, tournament, coming of age, game, death of sister ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Mischievous Kiss (2008)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: When her newly-built home is razed to the ground by an earthquake, low-achieving, clumsy, and troublesome third-year high school student Kotoko Aihara is forced to share a roof with the school's—and possibly Japan's—smartest student, ...
Style: shoujo, anime, emotional, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot: love, high school life, couples, relocation, society, friendship, fall in love, slice of life, university, school, rivalry, coming of age ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Only Yesterday (1991)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: It’s 1982, and Taeko is 27 years old, unmarried, and has lived her whole life in Tokyo. She decides to visit her family in the countryside, and as the train travels through the night, memories flood back of her younger years: the first immature ...
Style: touching, anime, melancholic, atmospheric, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, date night, girls' night, adult
Plot: countryside, childhood, friendship, coming of age, adolescence, self discovery, introspection, village life, childhood memory, deadend life, strong female character, children ...
Time: year 1991
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Haganai: I Don't Have Many Friends (2011)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Kodaka Hasegawa has just transferred to St. Chronica's Academy and he's having a hard time making friends. With his naturally blond hair and fierce looking eyes, people constantly mistake him for a delinquent. One day, he runs into his ...
Style: anime, touching, stylized, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: social misfits, friendship, club, social relations, misfit, youth, society, harem, high school life, friends, mature, school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Kids on the Slope (2012)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Kids on the Slope is a Japanese manga series by Yuki Kodama. An anime television series adaptation of the same name aired in 2012. It is directed by Shinichirō Watanabe at MAPPA and Tezuka Productions with music provided by acclaimed composer Yoko ...
Style: anime, touching, realistic, emotional, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: jazz, high school, friendship, coming of age, unrequited love, music band, free spirited, social relations, first love, love triangle, youth, mature ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 8.0
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Toradora! (2008)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: It’s Ryuji’s first day as a junior in high school and it seems as if things are looking up. He gets to sit in between his only friend, Yusaku, and, more importantly, the girl he’s secretly crushing on, Minori Kushieda. But just when he thinks ...
Style: anime, shoujo, realistic, semi serious, tsundere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, high school, school, teenage love, love and romance, high school life, friends, teenage life, slice of life, looking for love, youth, unrequited love ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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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 ⇓
31%
Boarding School Juliet (2018)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Grigio Academy Boarding School. Students who attend this school in two countries and reside in their own dormitories. Inazuka and Persia are rival dormitory leaders, but in secret they love each other. Now, they have to keep their relationship a ...
Style: anime, sentimental, entertaining, light, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, school, couples, rivalry, social relations, youth, everyday life, love triangle, high school life, coming of age, teenage love, dormitory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Pet Girl of Sakurasou (2012)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Sakura Dormitory is a dorm of the high school affiliated with Suimei University of the Arts (often shortened as Suiko), which hosts the strangest, most trouble-making students. After being kicked out of the normal dorm for keeping a stray cat, ...
Style: anime, touching, entertaining, stylized, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: couple relations, high school life, slice of life, friendship, everyday life, friends, teenage life, youth, teenage love, couples, love triangle, dormitory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
High Speed! Free! Starting Summer (2015)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A prequel to the 2013 Kyoto Animation series Free! which is an adaptation of light novel High☆Speed!
Style: anime, inspirational, captivating, emotional, psychological
Audience: teens
Plot: swimming, school, sport team, contests and competitions, youth, ambition, friendship, tournament, rivalry, follow your dream, against the odds, swimming pool ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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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 ⇓
30%
Domestic Girlfriend (2019)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Natsuo is a high school boy who is experiencing the crushing despair of unrequited love. To make matters worse, the person he is in love with is his teacher, Hina. In an attempt to lift his spirits, he attends a mixer where he meets a girl named ...
Style: anime, touching, sincere, yuri, tense ...
Plot: youth, school, half brother half sister relationship, couple relations, love triangle, sex, love, fall in love, teacher student relationship, rivalry, female nudity, love and romance ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Tsuki ga kirei (2017)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Kotarou Azumi and Akane Mizuno became third year students at junior high school and are classmates for the first time. These two, along with fellow classmates, Chinatsu Nishio and Takumi Hira, relate to their peers through mutual understandings and ...
Style: anime, shoujo, semi serious, light, touching ...
Plot: school, slice of life, high school, coming of age, high school life, high school friend, friendship, couples, opposites attract, humble, everyday life, teenage love ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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