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Tokyo Noir (2004)
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Original name: トウキョーノワール
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
In this excursion into Tokyo's dark side, a sexually repressed woman finds liberation by turning tricks at night a sex worker is taken by surprise when her ex drops by and a sex blogger finds strange kinship with a loner.
Style:
realistic, sincere, touching, serious, erotic drama, anthology, sensual, emotional, melancholic, intense ...
Plot:
couples, prostitute, singleness, strong female presence, lifestyle, city life, prostitution, female sexuality, sex work, loneliness, isolation, intimacy, sexually liberated, character study, relationships, taboo, subculture, voyeurism, slice of life, urban, reunion
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
tokyo, japan, asia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about couples, family relations, love and romance, lifestyle, urban, friendship and society mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Tokyo Noir: The End of Summer (1961), Like Someone in Love (2012), Strawberry Shortcakes (2006), All Around Us (2008), The Rebirth (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, sincere, emotional, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan, asia, kyoto japan
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
An old man and a young woman meet in Tokyo. She knows nothing about him, he thinks he knows her. He welcomes her into his home, she offers him her body. But the web that is woven between them in the space of twenty four hours bears no relation to ...
Style:
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Plot:
prostitute, call girl, pretty girl, sexpot, wench, harlot, prostitution, older man younger woman relationship, widower, college, elderly, love and romance ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, iran, asia
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Based on the eponymous josei manga by cartoonist Kiriko Nananan, the pic follows the ups and downs of four female friends in Tokyo looking for love and trying to cope with the responsibilities in their lives. The main characters, impeccably played ...
Style:
touching, sincere, realistic, serious, poignant ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
looking for love, lifestyle, best friend, couple relations, optimism, prostitute, couples, youth, city life, love and romance, unrequited love, loneliness ...
Time:
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Place:
tokyo, asia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Kanao, a courtroom portrait artist, observes crimes, scandals and the decline of Japanese values without passing judgement. As he and his wife endure the tragedy of their first child’s death, hope slowly unfolds and their love story flickers to ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, touching, psychological, gloomy ...
Plot:
couple relations, estrangement, family problems, pregnancy, death in the family, society, social decay, dysfunctional family, love and romance, unfulfillment, painter, painting ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
tokyo, japan, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Coincidence and the aftermath of violence. A man's middle-school daughter has been murdered. His wife is already deceased. He tells a counselor he wants to live in anonymity, working with his hands. He moves away and gets a job in a factory. ...
Style:
psychological, serious, emotional, sincere, melancholic ...
Plot:
small town, forgiveness, murder, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, friendship, loss of daughter, widower, loss, mourning, loneliness, grief ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, hokkaido, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A reluctant reunion of two estranged sisters. One is on the verge of marriage; the other is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Both struggle with truths they're hiding from each other - and from themselves. Jenny has rejected her tumultuous ...
Style:
talky, sincere, emotional, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, siblings relations, family problems, city life, rivalry, ego clash, estrangement, lifestyle, twists and turns, mental disorder, lost girl, snobbism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A clothing store worker (Jahan) meets a poor girl named Eti. Jahan tries to help the girl and solve her problems, but…
Style:
touching, sincere, realistic, serious, islamic ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
iran, persia, middle east
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, Taiwan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Making her way through life by forming superficial relationships, Yoko (Japanese pop idol Yo Hitoto) keeps everyone at arm's length, whether it's her father (Nanji Kobayashi) and stepmother (Kimiko Yo) or Hajime (Tadanobu Asano), the owner ...
Style:
psychological, contemplative, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
pregnancy, love and romance, lifestyle, writer's life, youth, family life, friendship, food, mental disorder, train, single mother, bookstore ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Young girl, born and raised in an isolated farm, is brought to a small town to live with her cousins, her only relatives. Once in town, she encounters great difficulty adapting to city life.
Style:
serious, touching, emotional, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot:
country girl, social differences, master and servant, youth, society, teaching the ways of the world, strong female presence, estate, power relations, urban setting, social problems, social relations ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
From the late 1950s through the '70s, more than 90,000 of the ethnic Koreans in Japan emigrated to North Korea, a country that promised them affluence, justice, and an end to discrimination. KAZOKU NO KUNI tells the story of one of their ...
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, sincere, gloomy ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, north korea, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, sincere, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
parents separation, family life, mother and son, aging, life is a bitch, family relations, parents and children, terminal illness, single parent, fighting illness, nursing, overprotective mother ...
Time:
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Place:
tokyo, asia, japan
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Nigeria, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A story about a woman willing to do anything and risk everything for her marriage.
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, visually stunning, psychological ...
Plot:
couple relations, immigrant, trying to get pregnant, society, couples, lifestyle, afrofuturism, african, female protagonist, parents and children, changing lives, cultural difference ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, africa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
pregnancy, friendship, friends, couples, family problems, family relations, introspection, woman in danger, singleness, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, europe
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
When Jiro Sawada was a sophomore in high school he was framed for something he did not do. Afterwards, he left his hometown in a small village in Fukushima Prefecture. After the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, Jiro Sawada goes back to his ...
Style:
touching, emotional, serious, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
family problems, dishonesty, youth, family relations, village life, tsunami, frame up, high school life, false accusation, villager, abandoned building, getting home ...
Time:
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Place:
japan, asia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, touching, contemplative, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan, asia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
date night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
asia, japan, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, serious, sincere, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
mother son relationship, world war two, life is a bitch, japanese military, nationalism, parents and children, wartime life, political unrest, single parent, unsupportive parent, state affairs, death in the family ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A woman remains in an airport after her husband announces he wants a divorce, just before they are to board a plane for Argentina. Unwilling to turn to her sister and emotionally traumatized she makes the airport her home, making money by working as ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, offbeat, independent film
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
argentina
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, touching, bleak ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
seoul, korea
Similarity:
100%
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, touching, contemplative
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: UK
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Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, emotional
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
england
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france, marseille, europe
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100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching
Plot:
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Time:
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100%
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Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, sincere, touching, realistic
Plot:
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Time:
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100%
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Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, romantic, feel good ...
Audience:
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Plot:
looking for love, lifestyle, society, singleness, love and romance, hopes, wish come true, interracial relations, parents and children, couples, city life, urban ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, sincere, atmospheric, contemplative, touching ...
Plot:
love and romance, couple relations, couples, society, working class, introspection, solitude, unfulfillment, unfulfilled love, bittersweet, love, urban ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, kolkata
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, semi serious, realistic, sincere, independent film ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
couples, love triangle, love and romance, ambition, lifestyle, wooing, radio dj, carnival, bartender, art exhibition, profanity, singleness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Lamington Road on Bombay's Western Railway is the nearest railway station that takes one to Kamathipura, notorious for it's red-light, in particular, and a crime-prone area in general.
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, art film
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
india
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100%
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