Movies like Revue Starlight: The Movie

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Revue Starlight: The Movie (2021)
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Revue Starlight: The Movie (2021)
Original name: 劇場版 少女☆歌劇 レヴュースタァライト
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Music, Musical
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The stage emulates life and compresses it, setting free skills learned over lifetimes in brief but dazzling displays for the amusement and judgment of others. For the performers, it is the ultimate risk, and some will rise while others must fall. Nowhere is this truer than at the Seisho Music Academy, where music, dance and real weapons all come into play in the creation of the next great Star. Karen and Hikari’s destinies have been linked since a childhood promise, but their journeys here have taken very different paths. Now, after Hikari leaves, Karen must discover who she is without her opposite, while Hikari must rediscover her own course. Nor are they the only girls who must reassess and change if they want to achieve their dreams, as the dance, magic, and swordplay continue!
Style: anime, surreal, postmodern, crying
Plot: theater, train, tokyo tower, giraffe, high school life, surrealism, boxing, school, basketball, volleyball, motorcycle, desert, truck, baseball, gymnastics, subway, tennis, maze, fencing, judo, sword fight, track and field, underground, singing, destiny ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s
Place: japan, england, london, tokyo, tower bridge london

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Revue Starlight (2018)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Music, Musical
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Story: Starlight is a song and dance revue troupe loved throughout the world. Karen and Hikari make a promise with each other when they're young that one day they'll stand on that stage together. Time passes, and now the girls are 16 years old. ...
Style: anime, surreal, super sentai
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Place: tokyo, japan
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Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
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Style: anime, feel good, sweet, light, captivating ...
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical
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Duration: 71 min.
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Liz and the Blue Bird (2018)
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Duration: 90 min.
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Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Musical
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
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Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Sing a Bit of Harmony (2021)
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Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Satomi is fine being alone until an AI named Shion joins her class with a song and a promise to make her happy. While Shion’s musical numbers and princess gowns don’t quite pass as human, her antics bring Satomi closer to four other classmates. ...
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