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The Gymnastics Samurai (2020)
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The Gymnastics Samurai (2020)
Original name: 体操ザムライ
Genre: Animation, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: In the year 2002, the formerly powerful Japanese men's gymnastics team member Jotaro Aragaki is no longer able to compete. Even though he trained strenuously daily, he is asked about retiring by his coach Amakusa. However, a certain encounter alters Aragaki's fate.
Style: anime, captivating, suspense
Plot: professional athlete, competition, tournament, slice of life, gymnast, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, overcoming, team, rivalry, contests and competitions, rivals, professional rivalry, gymnastics
Time: year 2002
Keyword: sport

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, captivating, entertaining and disturbing films and TV series with plots about athlete's life, sport team, rivalry, athlete and trainer, school, ambition and slice of life mostly in Animation, Sport and Drama genres. Some movies like The Gymnastics Samurai: Free! (2013), Backflip!! (2021), Hungry Heart: Wild Striker (2002), Love All Play (2022), Salaryman's Club (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Free! (2013)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: The story revolves around Haruka Nanase, a boy who has always loved to be immersed in water, and to swim in it. Before graduating from elementary school, he participated in a swimming tournament along with his fellow swimming club members, Makoto ...
Style: anime, captivating, light, exciting, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, high school, rivalry, slice of life, contests and competitions, victory, team, academy, gay, high school life, tournament, school ...
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100%
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Backflip!! (2021)
Genre: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: The final summer of middle school, Shotaro Futaba discovers boys gymnastics and is completely enamored by it. Shotaro ends up going to Soshukan Private High School (aka Ao High) and decides to visit the boys gymnastics club. He's greeted by ...
Style: anime, entertaining, captivating
Plot: discipline, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, slice of life, friends, teamwork, gymnast, professional rivalry, overcoming, sport team, student, rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
2.43: Seiin High School Boys Volleyball Team (2021)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Kimichika Haijima was a strong junior high school volleyball team member. After getting into trouble with the team, he moved to his mother's hometown and reunites with his childhood friend, Yuni Kuroba. The two become an ace pair at volleyball, ...
Style: anime, entertaining, captivating
Plot: volleyball, slice of life, competition, tournament, sport team, teamwork, coping, friendship, contests and competitions, high school friend, direction and purpose, aspiration ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Hungry Heart: Wild Striker (2002)
Genre: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Kyosuke Kano has lived under the shadow of his successful brother Seisuke all his life who is a professional soccer player. Tired of being compared and downgraded at, he abandoned playing soccer until a boy from his new highschool discovered him and ...
Style: anime, captivating, shounen
Audience: kids
Plot: soccer, competition, talent, school, football, professional sports, football player, team, sport competition, professional rivalry, contests and competitions, student ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Love All Play (2022)
Genre: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: A young badminton star aims to break through to the inter-high tournament!
Style: anime, entertaining, captivating
Plot: badminton, contests and competitions, ambition, sport team, tournament, professional sports, championship, school club, school, athlete's life, rivalry, leadership ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Salaryman's Club (2022)
Genre: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Mikoto Shiratori is a childhood prodigy at badminton that lost in high school; after joining the sales department of the Sunlight Beverage company, he starts playing badminton again.
Style: anime, captivating, entertaining
Plot: boy, badminton, sport team, ambition, athlete's life, professional rivalry, direction and purpose, slice of life, contests and competitions, club, rivalry, bromance ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
The Prince of Tennis II: U-17 World Cup (2022)
Genre: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: The story follows the unfolding of the U-17 World Cup, which takes place at the KCC Arena, in Melbourne, Australia. A total of 32 countries are participating in this long-awaited competition, and only 16 of them will manage to qualify for the final ...
Style: anime, captivating, disturbing
Plot: tennis, tennis player, ambitious, contest, rivalry, athlete and trainer, ambition, athlete's life, direction and purpose, professional rivalry, competitor
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
PuraOre! ~Pride of Orange~ (2021)
Genre: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: This sports anime is set in Nikko City, Tochigi Prefecture, and follows a team of girls as they aim for the top in the sport of ice hockey. It’s about team-building, friendship and competition!
Style: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining
Plot: tournament, female friendship, slice of life, school, sport team, rivalry, aspiration, contests and competitions, athlete's life, direction and purpose, women, ambition ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Farewell, My Dear Cramer (2021)
Genre: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: With no soccer accomplishments to speak of during the entirety of Suou Sumire's junior high school years, the young wing gets an odd offer. Suou's main rival, Soshizaki Midori, invites her to join up on the same team in high school, with a ...
Style: anime, entertaining, captivating
Plot: tournament, slice of life, high school life, high school football, soccer, school, high school, team, sport team, professional rivalry, rivalry, contests and competitions ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Futsal Boys!!!!! (2022)
Genre: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Haru Yamato watches the championship of the U-18 world cup and is inspired by a Japanese player Tokinari Tenōji. He joins the Koyo Academy High School's futsal team with the goal of becoming a player like Tenōji. There, he finds friends, and ...
Style: anime, entertaining, captivating
Plot: boy, competition, friends, slice of life, sport team, football team, football player, direction and purpose, contests and competitions, athlete's life, playing football, ambition ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Shoot! Goal to the Future (2022)
Genre: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Atsushi Kamiya is a former captain at Kakegawa High School and the world-renowned "courageous captain" for a famous Italian soccer team. Hideto Tsuji, a student at Kakegawa High School seems uninterested in the now-weakened soccer team. ...
Style: anime, disturbing, captivating, shounen
Plot: soccer, competition, tournament, sport team, football, athlete and trainer, soccer match, soccer coach, athlete's life, direction and purpose, professional sports, football team ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Captain Tsubasa (2018)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: The passionate story of an elementary school student whose thoughts and dreams revolve almost entirely around the love of soccer. 11-year-old Tsubasa Oozora started playing football at a very young age, and while it was mostly just a recreational ...
Style: anime, captivating, exciting, inspirational, disturbing
Plot: soccer, tournament, competition, football, coming of age, football team, football player, team, teenager, follow your dream, school, athlete's life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Battery (2016)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Meet Harada Takumi – not even in junior high and he’s the best pitcher in the region, although he’s frustrated and ready to give up, because he can’t find a catcher who is good enough to keep up with how he pitches in this backwater town his ...
Style: anime, psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot: baseball, slice of life, school, athlete's life, life is a bitch, direction and purpose, teenage life, team, family problems, ambition, boy
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Ao Ashi (2022)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Ashito Aoi is a young, aspiring soccer player from a backwater town in Japan. His hopes of getting into a high school with a good soccer club are dashed when he causes an incident during a critical match for his team, which results in their loss and ...
Style: anime, semi serious, entertaining, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot: soccer, tournament, competition, slice of life, athlete and trainer, athlete's life, football player, football team, coach, football, sport team, soccer coach ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Harukana Receive (2018)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Oozora Haruka, who's just moved to Okinawa, is generally cheerful and optimistic, but there's one thing she feels insecure about: she's taller than most other girls. Her cousin Higa Kanata also has one hang-up: she had to quit her ...
Style: anime, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, ecchi
Plot: volleyball, beach, beach volleyball, slice of life, female protagonist, sport team, tournament, female athlete, team, coping, teamwork, professional rivalry ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
TAMAYOMI: The Baseball Girls (2020)
Genre: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: In her Junior High years, the pitcher Yomi Takeda was not able to get very far in a cross-school baseball tournament. Since the catcher on her team wasn't at her level, she couldn't use her signature move, the "Magic Throw," and ...
Style: anime, entertaining, captivating, adult anime
Plot: baseball, competition, female protagonist, school, tournament, baseball team, baseball coach, friendship, athlete and trainer, baseball player, athlete's life, teenager ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
The New Prince of Tennis (2012)
Genre: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: The Seigaku tennis club has been invited to train at the U-17 (Under 17) camp. Seigaku is one of the 50 middle schools invited and must compete with high school players to prove they are just as good.
Style: anime, entertaining, captivating
Plot: tennis, school, sport competition, professional rivalry, athlete and trainer, championship, sport team, competitor, desire for fame, tennis player, rivalry, direction and purpose ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Burning Kabaddi (2021)
Genre: Animation, Action, Sport
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Yoigoshi Tatsuya was a star soccer player known as "Yoigoshi the Unstoppable," but when he entered high school, he severed all involvement with sports. Now, he has been invited to a certain sports team. In these matches, victory is ...
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Plot: soccer, school, teamwork, team, teenage life, youth, high school, uninhibited rivalry, sport team, high school life, teenager, contests and competitions ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Kuroko's Basketball - Movie: Winter Cup - Shadow and Light (2016)
Genre: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: First of three compilation films of Kuroko no Basket.
Style: anime, entertaining, captivating, shounen
Plot: basketball, basketball player, rivalry, athlete's life, contests and competitions, competitor, basketball team, showdown, basketball coach, professional rivalry, rivals, athlete and trainer ...
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51%
Free! the Final Stroke The First Volume (2021)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Haruka Nanase's new stage to take on the world is Sydney – a place he once visited, a place of dreams. One day, while taking a short break before his departure, Haruka coincidentally runs into a swimmer that competed at the All Japan National ...
Style: anime, captivating, thrilling
Plot: swimming, competitor, professional rivalry, ambition, athlete and trainer, athlete's life, friendship, champion, world championship wrestling, rivalry, direction and purpose, school ...
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51%
AOKANA: Four Rhythm Across the Blue (2016)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: In the Four Islands Archipelago, people can use Grav-Shoes to fly around! This is the story of Asuka Kurashina, a transfer student that arrives at Kunahama Academy from outside the Four Islands. After seeing the ability of wearers to soar in the ...
Style: anime, captivating, futuristic, entertaining
Plot: school, rivalry, flying, professional rivalry, direction and purpose, sport team, hi-tech, ambition, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, ambitious, teenage life, teenager ...
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50%
The Prince of Tennis: Showdown in England's Tennis Fortress (2011)
Genre: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
Story: Seigaku travels to England to play a tournament representing Japan but they are attacked by a group of street tennis players who were banned from playing official tournaments because of their rough play.
Style: anime, exciting, captivating, entertaining
Plot: tennis, sport competition, rivals, rivalry, competition, sports man, professional athlete, tournament, professional sports
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Umamusume: Pretty Derby (2018)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: In a world very much like our own, great race horses of the past have a chance to be reborn as "horse girls"—girls with the ears and tails of horses as well as their speed and endurance. The best of these horse girls go to train at ...
Style: anime, captivating, entertaining, sincere
Plot: contests and competitions, runner, teenager, magical creature, professional athlete, teenage girl, ambition, teenage life, rivals, rivalry, aspiration, coping ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Stars Align (2019)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Constantly outperformed by the girls' club, the boys' soft tennis club faces disbandment due to their poor skills and lack of positive results. In desperate need of capable players, Toma Shinjou is looking to recruit, but he fails to do ...
Style: anime, touching, sincere, exciting, inspirational ...
Plot: competition, championship, slice of life, club, school, lgbt, friendship, grownups, ambition, student, athlete and trainer, rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Ace of Diamond (2013)
Genre: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Eijun Sawamura is a pitcher who joins an elite school with a brilliant catcher named Kazuya Miyuki. Together with the rest of the team, they strive for Japan's storied Koushien championships through hard work and determination.
Style: anime, humorous, feel good, touching, captivating ...
Plot: baseball, friendship, high school, teamwork, competition, athlete's life, sport team, team, baseball player, professional rivalry, baseball team, professional sports ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Haikyuu!! The Movie 1: The End and the Beginning (2015)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: First Haikyuu!! recap movie.
Style: anime, humorous, captivating, entertaining, shounen
Plot: volleyball, school, team, sport team, rivalry, contests and competitions, professional sports, athlete's life, professional rivalry, athlete and trainer, showdown, teamwork ...
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47%
AI Football GGO (2010)
Genre: Animation, Sport
Country: China
TV show
Story: Artificial Intelligent Football GGO is made by Puzzle Animation studio Ltd. It's an animation series about football and future technology.
Style: anime, entertaining, captivating
Plot: soccer, artificial intelligence, sport team, teamwork, contests and competitions, rivalry, friends, friendship, professional rivalry, athlete's life, football
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46%
Haikyuu!! Movie 3: Genius and Sense (2017)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Recap film focusing primarily on the match against Aoba Jouhsai from the second season.
Style: disturbing, humorous, captivating, anime, shounen
Plot: volleyball, competition, training, sport team, contests and competitions, high school life, rivalry, athlete's life, rivals, athlete and trainer, direction and purpose, tournament ...
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46%
Hanebado: The Badminton Play of Ayano Hanesaki! (2018)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Ayano Hanesaki, a first-year student at Kanagawa Prefectural Kitakomachi High School, has a badminton ability able to surpass others effortlessly yet avoids playing the sport. She meets Nagisa Aragaki, a third-year student who practices day and ...
Style: anime
Plot: badminton, school, female protagonist, slice of life, competition, club, female nudity, ponytail
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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ALL OUT!! (2016)
Genre: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: In rugby, there is no ace striker, there is no number four batter, so who is the star of the team? The story begins at school entrance ceremony of Kanagawa High School where Kenji Gion, a small but gutsy go-getter joins the rugby club. He joins ...
Style: anime, entertaining, captivating, seinen
Plot: rugby, high school, championship, athlete's life, sport team, rugby player, school club, bromance, club, training
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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