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Plot Summary:
Mitsuki is shy and rather isolated at school. Towa is on the basketball team and Mitsuki's class-mate. Due to circumstances, Mitsuki soon begins to socialize with four jocks of the basketball team, which affects her self-esteem, her social status, her loneliness and her life. She finds a new lease in her school life.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Family, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: crying
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Hello, Goodbye (2016)
Plot Summary:
Hazuki and Aoi are classmates but their relationship outside class is fraught, and outside school non-existent. But when both girls are drawn to helping an elderly woman, they're forced to interact, confronting their differences and similarities as well as their deepest secrets.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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Asahinagu (2017)
Plot Summary:
Asahi Tojima (Nanase Nishino) is a first grade high school student. She is small and weak physically. Asahi Tojima decides to change herself. She enrolls in the naginata (Japanese blade) club at her school. She works hard with the other club members and targets the national competition.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scenic, captivating, psychological, unusual plot structure, humorous, suspense, contemplative, crying
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A Long Goodbye (2019)
Plot Summary:
A seventy-year-old retired school headmaster informs his wife and daughters that he has Alzheimer's disease. They are all concerned, but react differently due to their individual situations. The family watches as the husband and father regresses due to the disease and loses his memory. Interestingly, there are sparkling moments of his life of which the man will not let go.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 525
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: emotional, crying
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Tori Girl! (2017)
Plot Summary:
Yukina Toriyama (Tao Tsuchiya) enters a university of science after prepping for one year for her entrance exam. At first, she is shocked by the atmosphere at her school. She becomes attracted to senior student Kei (Mahiro Takasugi). Due to Kei, Yukina joins the “human powered flight” club. The club targets the "Tori Ningen Contest." Yukina wants to partner with Kei to fly in the sky, but she is partnered with Sakaba (Shotaro Mamiya) whom she does not like.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, crying
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Yell for the Blue Sky (2016)
Plot Summary:
As a child, Ono Tsubasa saw a Shirato baseball game on TV and was amazed at the Trumpet player in the band playing. Now, in order to play the Trumpet, she enters Shirato High School. There, she meets Yamada Daisuke, a catcher for the baseball team. With each others support, they go towards their dream of playing at Koushien.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Drama, Family, Romance, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: shoujo
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Our Departures (2018)
Plot Summary:
Akira is widowed and left with a pre-teen stepson. Travelling with him to her late husband's hometown, she meets her odd father-in-law and yet decides to make a go of living and working there. She attends training and joins the railway company where her father-in-law works and her late man dreamt of ending up as a child.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sexy, crying
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Let's Go, Jets! (2017)
Plot Summary:
Female students, including Hikari Tomonaga, from a high school cheerdance club follow strict instructions from their teacher Kaoruko Saotome. They compete at the USA Cheerdance Championship.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 829
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags:
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The Girl in the Sun (2013)
Plot Summary:
A new salesman named Kosuke Okuda happens to meet Mao Watarai, a friend from his middle school days. Back then, Mao was called stupid and bullied, but now she is an attractive woman. Kosuke and Mao fall in love and decide to marry, but Mao has a secret….
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: romantic, psychological, captivating, disturbing, crying
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Kanazawa Shutter Girl (2018)
Plot Summary:
The girls are good friends at junior high school. Three of them seem to adjust and move forward upon entering high school, but the fourth of them is not having a seamless time of it. High school is not comfortable and the transition is full of memories, nostalgia and yearning. This is the story of a sixteen-year-old girl and also a camera. Kanazawa Shutter Girl picks up inspiration from the manga, and the subsequent movie, called Tokyo Shutter Girl and is helmed by one of its predecessor's's directors.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes:
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Daytime Shooting Star (2017)
Plot Summary:
Fifteen-year-old country girl Suzume Yosano has to move to Tokyo to live with her uncle due to her father's transfer. She bumps into a mysterious man who ends up taking her to her uncle's place after she gets lost. Turns out, Suzume will be seeing him a lot more often once she starts school because... he's her homeroom teacher?!.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Family, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, thought provoking, captivating, romantic, shoujo, tripping
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After the Rain (2018)
Plot Summary:
Akira Tachibana is a 17-year-old high school student. She was once a promising athlete, but an injury has prevented her from taking part in track and field. One day, Akira Tachibana goes to a family restaurant and the manager talks to her in a tender voice. This makes Akira Tachibana begin working part-time at the restaurant. The manager is 45-year-old Masami Kondo and he is divorced with a child. Akira Tachibana falls in love with him. --asianwiki.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: sexy, sincere, touching, captivating, disturbing, manga, crying, seinen, romantic drama
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Peach Girl (2017)
Plot Summary:
It's not easy being beautiful. The envy, the jealousy, the vicious rumors spread by your best friend. That's life for young Momo. While everyone thinks that Momo is a wild party girl, the reality is that she is shy and lonely. Can Momo confess her love to her classmate, Toji, or will her best friend Sae steal him away. It's a bittersweet drama of growing up and fitting in that will charm readers everywhere.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 622
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, touching, captivating, entertaining, manga, shoujo, crying, romantic drama
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Oppai Volleyball (2009)
Plot Summary:
Mikako is a young junior high school teacher who has just transferred to a new school. Excited to be starting a new job, she volunteers for a coach for a boys volleyball club. But, she finds out that there is almost no activity in the club… There are only 5 members, and they are all losers who haven’t even touched a volleyball and only think about girls… To give them an incentive to try hard, she promises them that she will show them her boobs if they win a game! Since then, the boys start practicing extremely hard. Feeling uneasy but happy at the same time to see their attitude changing, Mikako starts to like and trust them. She also learns from them and gets back her confidence which once she lost. Right before the day of the first game, ‘the promise’ is discovered by the school side, and it becomes a big problem….
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 718
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Pecoross' Mother and Her Days (2013)
Plot Summary:
Laid-back baby boomer Yuichi (Ryo Iwamatsu) is a middle-aged manga artist and singer-songwriter when he isn't at his salaryman day job or watching out for his elderly mother. Suffering from increasing dementia since her husband's death, Mitsue (Harue Akagi) is a constant source of comic energy or annoyance for Yuichi, and he and his son must soon decide if they should put her in a home for the elderly. Jumping back in time, we see how Mitsue (played by Kiwako Harada) tracked the tumult of the latter half of the 20th century, being raised as one of 10 brothers and sisters, surviving the war, and having to push her alcoholic husband (Ryo Kase) along in life. "Pecoross" is directed by the oldest active film director in Japan, Azuma Morisaki, who creates an emotionally complex work that is only the more profound and life-affirming for its cartoonish portrayal.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, realistic, thought provoking, humorous, entertaining, social, manga, crying, fable
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My Brother Loves Me Too Much (2017)
Plot Summary:
Setoka Tachibana is a female high school student who has confessed her feelings to other boys 12 times, but has been rebuffed each time. Her older brother Haruka Tachibana cares for his younger sister deeply, but he keeps secret from her that they are not blood related. One day, Setoka's first love Takane Serikawa appears after many years and approaches her.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, light, sincere, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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Make a Bow and Kiss (2017)
Plot Summary:
Based on the comic book by Yakko Kaga.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, sweet, captivating, crying, whimsical
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In Orange (2004)
Plot Summary:
An 11 year old talented soccer player, Remco, has one big dream: to be selected for the national team under 12 years. His father Erik coaches him and everything seems to work out fine, until Erik suddenly dies. Remco and mother Sylvia are shocked. Remco keeps working to fulfil his dream, being helped by his friends Anne and Winston.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, serious, uplifting, captivating, realistic
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Swimming for Gold (2020)
Plot Summary:
Young elite swimmer Claire is sent to Australia to coach a boys swimming team, where she must overcome an old rival and a secret fear to save the swimming camp from closing.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 613
Genere: Family, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, sincere
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Fast Girl (2008)
Plot Summary:
Racing is in Alex Johnstone's (Mircea Monroe) blood. It was her father s life and it ultimately caused his death so her uncle Bill (Dwier Brown), who runs the local speedway, is determined not to lose his niece the way he lost his brother. But Alex is determined to prove to Bill, to the world, and especially to herself that she has what it takes to be the best in a traditionally male-dominated sport. And when she meets up with handsome professional racecar driver Darryl Sands (Justin Guarini), the emotional stakes are raised even higher. Will Alex crash and burn or can she carry on her dad s legacy and make her dreams come true?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 417
Genere: Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, semi serious, humorous, realistic
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Catching Faith (2015)
Plot Summary:
From the outside, Alexa has the perfect life. Her son is the high school football star, daughter a straight A student and her husband is CFO of a booming start-up company. The sudden death.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 518
Genere: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: christian film, light, uplifting, feel good, captivating, entertaining, contemplative, disgusting, crying, independent film
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Wolves (2016)
Plot Summary:
Anthony Keller, star of his NYC high school basketball team, is riding his way to Cornell on a sports scholarship. But he can only maintain his popular jock facade for so long, as his troubled father Lee has a gambling addiction that threatens to derail his dreams both on and off the court.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, contemplative, multicultural
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March Comes in Like a Lion (2017)
Plot Summary:
Rei Kiriyama is a 17-years-old shogi (Japanese chess) player. He debuted as a professional shogi player when he was in middle school. He lives by himself in Tokyo, because his parents and younger sister died in an traffic accident when he was little. One day, Rei Kiriyama meets three sisters who are his neighbors. The three sisters are Akari Kawamoto, Hinata Kawamoto and Momo Kawamoto. This is his first meeting with someone outside of the shogi world in many years. Having meals with the Kawamoto family brings warm feelings to Rei Kiriyama. As Rei Kiriyama continues his shogi career, his interactions with his neighbors allows him to grow as a shogi player and as a person.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: captivating, anime, entertaining
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Say 'I Love You' (2014)
Plot Summary:
Mei Tachibana is a high school student. Due to a traumatic incident when she was a kid, Mei has been unable to make friends or have boyfriends. By mistake, Mei then injures the most popular male student named Yamato Kurosawa. Somehow, Yamato Kurosawa likes Mei Tachibana and tells everyone unilaterally that Mei is his friend. One day, Yamato Kurosawa saves Mei Tachibana from a stalker by kissing her. From that kiss, their love story begins.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sexy, anime, light, sincere, shoujo, touching, captivating, romantic, romantic drama
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The Sandlot: Heading Home (2007)
Plot Summary:
A successful professional baseball player gets his ego in check via an unreality check when he travels back in time to his boyhood sandlot ball-playing days.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Family, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: feel good, semi serious, humorous, saga
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Like Mike 2: Streetball (2006)
Plot Summary:
Another young boy with 'hoop dreams' finds an old pair of Michael Jordan's sneakers and can suddenly play ball like the greatest player in the world.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, black comedy, semi serious
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Home Run Showdown (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two little league teams take on their coaches' sibling rivalry, and end up doing battle in a place the baseball world never expected: in the outfield of the Home Run Derby.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, crying
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Alex & Me (2018)
Plot Summary:
An uplifting story of the passion and drive it takes to succeed and the power of family to help realize your dreams.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 627
Genere: Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: inspirational, light, sincere, captivating
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Rebound (2005)
Plot Summary:
An acclaimed college hoops coach is demoted to a junior varsity team after a public meltdown.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: entertaining, feel good, touching, funny, black comedy, hilarious, happy, realistic, not serious, humorous
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School of Life (2005)
Plot Summary:
At Fallbrook Middle School, the annual student-elected Teacher of the Year award is held. And every year for the last 43 years Norman Warner or most fondly called Stormin' Norman Warner has won the award. Now that he has died, the burden of carrying the legacy falls into the hands of Matt Warner, the son of the late Norman Warner who has always lived in the shadow of his father.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, sincere, captivating, entertaining, funny, realistic, contemplative
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Children of Heaven (1997)
Plot Summary:
Zohre's shoes are gone; her older brother Ali lost them. They are poor, there are no shoes for Zohre until they come up with an idea: they will share one pair of shoes, Ali's. School awaits.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 79000
Genere: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Iran
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, emotional, sincere, sentimental, compassionate, sad, inspirational, feel good, dramatic