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The Solitary Gourmet (2012)
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Original name: 孤独のグルメ
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Centered around typical Japanese food, a solitary salesman travelling through the country for business purposes, eats at its various establishments and experiences the various delicacies of Japanese cuisine.
Style:
captivating, entertaining, disturbing, contemplative, melancholic
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
food, travel, businessman, gourmet, gastronomy, solitude, loneliness, loner, introspection, slice of life, everyday life, realism, nostalgia, chef, restaurant, anti hero, business, life, merchant, guilty pleasure, eating
Place:
japan, tokyo
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, melancholic and realistic films and TV series with plots about slice of life, food, restaurant, relationships, life, cookery and friendship mostly in Drama, Comedy and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Solitary Gourmet: Food Luck (2020), Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories (2016), The Knife and the Sword (2013), Fermat's Cuisine (2023), Trails to Oishii Tokyo (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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japan
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Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Style:
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Place:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
food, diner, restaurant, chef, cooking, unrequited love, loneliness, slice of life, social problems, relationships, multiple storylines, male female relationship ...
Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
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French chef Ken travels back in time to Sengoku period. Due to traveling through the time slip, Ken has lost his memory, but still retains his knowledge on fine cuisine. Thanks to his excellence in cuisine, Ken eventually becomes the chef to ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
91%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
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Story:
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Plot:
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Style:
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Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
86%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Chinese adaptation of the original Japanese drama.
Style:
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Plot:
food, diner, slice of life, store, workplace, night, lifestyle, workplace situations, society, nightlife, intimate, loneliness ...
Place:
china
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85%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Place:
japan
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min.
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Plot:
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78%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
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Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
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tokyo
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78%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 55 min.
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76%
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japan
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Country: Japan
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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