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The Parades (2024)
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Original name: パレード
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
A mother searches for her missing son after a devastating calamity, only to realize that she has died and is now confined to a realm of restless spirits.
Style:
psychological, exciting, sincere, bleak, serious, captivating, dramatic, disturbing, thrilling
Plot:
beach, ghost, journey, filmmaker, japanese man, japanese woman, female ghost, obsessive quest, haunting, apparition, tsunami, earthquake, friendship, regret, life, life after death, afterlife, parade, unity, ghosts
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, thrilling and realistic films with plots about friendship, relationships, life is a bitch, bittersweet, japanese woman, family relations and society mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Parades: Village (2023), Wilderness: Part One (2017), An Emblem Dedicated To You (2017), 7s (2015), Bungo: Stories of Desire (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In a once-scenic village now dominated by a vast trash disposal site, a young man yearns to break free from a cruel fate tying him to the very grounds.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, dramatic, exciting, captivating ...
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Country: Japan
Duration: 157 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan, tokyo
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Kazuya Takajo was a promising soccer player. At the age of 23, he was selected for the national A football team and he bought a house to live with his fiancé Miki Nakagawa. One day, Kazuya Takajo gets into a car accident and becomes paralyzed and ...
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captivating, thrilling, psychological, emotional, dramatic ...
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soccer, disability, trauma, ex football player, paralysis, football, wheelchair bound, football player, handicapped, traumatic experience, physical disability, life is a bitch ...
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japan
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Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Sawada is an unpopular move director but he manages to win the grand prize at an indie film festival With the reward he decides to go big for his next film. Sawada will have to face many difficult situations while trying to make it happen as the ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, tense
Audience:
adult
Plot:
filmmaking, struggling artist, lifestyle, problem, ambition, behind the scenes, creative process, perseverance, casting, audition, fund raising, mentor ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
japan, tokyo
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 201 min.
Story:
Omnibus film "Bungo Sasayakana Yokubo" features 6 different short stories set under 2 different themes ("Mitsumerareru Shukujotachi" & "Kokuhaku Suru Shinshitachi").
Style:
anthology, psychological, captivating, thrilling, art house ...
Plot:
omnibus, male female relationship, relationships, lifestyle, multiple storylines, unrequited love, confession, sexual desire, realism, bittersweet, obsession, urban ...
Place:
japan
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164
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
On a small island somewhere near Japan, three cult members have devoted themselves to the "Deserted Island Program". Calling each other by rank, these people-two men and one women-have been chosen by their superiors to throw off the ...
Style:
psychological, dramatic, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
isolation, woman, male female relationship, social problems, human nature, japanese woman, life is a bitch, lifestyle, social issues, corruption, japanese man, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
The bittersweet events in the lives of people in Hakodate, a regional city connected by a streetcar network. A laid-off man and his younger sister go up a mountain to see the first sunrise of the year. Meanwhile, Haruo has inherited his ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
working class, society, life is a bitch, family relations, small town, unemployment, rivalry, social relations, parents and children, down on your luck, siblings relations, small town life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia, hokkaido
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When older man Tsukakoshi asks Unokichi to paint it is of his mistress, the geisha Fumiko. Tsukakoshi loves the feet and legs part of Fumiko's anatomy. The fetishism gives the art student a commission to put his talent to use.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot:
foot fetish, fetish, fetishism, geisha, relationships, male female relationship, problem, artists' life, love affair, artist, elderly man, drawing ...
Place:
japan
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28%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Set in the year 1969 in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Kyoko Noma is a loving female high school student who takes part in campus protests. One day, she meets university student Wataru Domoto in the tea cafe Mubansou ("A Cappella"). ...
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, contemplative, sincere ...
Plot:
gay, protest, revolution, japanese schoolgirl, youth, danger, friendship, high school, schoolgirl, society, dishonesty, heroes ...
Time:
year 1969
Place:
japan
Similarity:
27%
345
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Classmates Shuji and Eri becomes friends, both young people have family problems. When Eri is taken away to Tokyo by her relatives, Shuji becomes increasingly isolated at school and drifts into criminal activity.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, melancholic ...
Plot:
male female relationship, problem, brothers, relationships, family relations, brother brother relationship, priest, life is a bitch, faith, brother, small town, coming of age ...
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 217 min.
Story:
In Kyushu, southwest Japan, one hot summer morning, a municipal bus is hijacked. In the carnage only three people survive: the driver, a school girl, and her older brother.
Style:
bleak, psychological, sincere, lyrical, depressing ...
Plot:
road trip, on the road, bus driver, haunted by the past, family relations, serial killer, orphan, starting over, hijacking, bus, redemption, asian ...
Time:
2000s, 90s
Place:
japan, east asia, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
After his parent's divorce, Kazuo Saito moves with his mother from Onomichi and must leave his girlfriend behind. At his new school, Kazuo is surprised to reunite with his childhood friend Kazumi.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot:
body swapping, switching bodies, switching roles, relationship problems, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, fish out of water, couples, romantic friendship, japanese woman, gender disguise, couple relations, love interest ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, captivating, melancholic, touching, tense ...
Plot:
japanese woman, hospital, sexuality, bipolar disorder, handicapped, lust, teddy bear, cerebral palsy, horniness, bookstore, meteorite, horny ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A few years ago, when Tomomi (Hiroko Akune) was on the way home from school, she saw her friend Keiko (Misaki Mori) about to be raped by a man. Tomomi hit the man in the head with a stone and saved Keiko. In the present, Keiko, has buried her ...
Style:
bleak, captivating, thrilling, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot:
female nudity, sexual abuse, prostitution, trauma, sex work, character study, survival, female friendship, guilt, mature, alienation, street life ...
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Place:
tokyo
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
rivalry, legal action, master warrior, investigation, partner, uncover truth, murder, friendship, love, danger, prosecutor, heroes ...
Time:
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Place:
japan, busan, asia, korea
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
crying, thrilling, captivating, psychological, reflective ...
Plot:
morgue, bereavement, tsunami, volunteer, dead body, realism, grief, mourning, compassion, corpse, tragedy, loss of father ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, psychological, sincere ...
Plot:
life turned upside down, redemption, friendship, couples, family relations, couple relations, terminal illness, life is a bitch, dealing with death, cancer, illness, relationship problems ...
Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The latest discovery by a blind shell collector puts the relationship between man and nature on edge: a rare mollusc that is extremely poisonous, but has a healing and hallucinogenic effect on some people. Can people resist the creature’s ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot:
remote island, blind man, island, nature, beach, problem, fighting illness, lifestyle, illness, man versus nature, isolation, obsession ...
Place:
okinawa japan
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
2010s
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
22%
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Country: Japan
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Story:
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Style:
psychological, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
filmmaking, college student, performer's life, introspection, twists and turns, youth, love, filmmaker, deception, murder, rivalry, campus ...
Time:
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Place:
tokyo, japan, asia
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
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Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, serious, dramatic, exciting, captivating ...
Plot:
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Place:
japan
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22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Story:
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Style:
romantic, thrilling, captivating, romantic drama, contemplative ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Story:
The movie is about Minami Kawashima, a high school girl who becomes the manager of her school's baseball team in place of her hospitalized friend, Yuki Miyata. She tries to lead the team to the National High School Baseball Championship by ...
Style:
captivating, sincere, uplifting, psychological
Plot:
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Place:
japan
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
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Story:
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psychological, thrilling, captivating, hot
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japan
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
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Story:
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Style:
touching, sincere, disturbing, psychological, poignant ...
Audience:
family friendly
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Time:
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Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
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Story:
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Style:
serious, psychological, atmospheric, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
gang, friendship, rebelliousness, resentment, estrangement, father son relationship, post apocalypse, asian, jellyfish, ghost, boss and employee, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
21%
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:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Hiroshi (Yojiro Noda) has given up on his dreams of becoming a painter and works part-time cleaning office windows. He learns that he has only 3 months left to live. During his last summer, high school student Mai (Hana Sugisaki) appears. Hiroshi ...
Style:
psychological, sincere, touching, disturbing, captivating ...
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illness, terminal illness, sick, japanese teenager, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, student, teenage girl, teenager, painting, drawing, cancer, relationships ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Award-winning Iranian filmmaker Rakshan Banietemad ends her eight-year hiatus from feature filmmaking with this ingenious, mosaic-like narrative, which knits together the stories of seven characters to create a microcosm of Iranian working-class ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
love, family relations, multiple storylines, everyday life, couples, friendship, life is a bitch, social misfits, down on your luck, prostitute, taxi driver, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran, middle east
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20%
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