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Plot Summary:
When Tsukasa was a middle school student, she had a crush on transfer student Hayato and even confessed her feelings to him. She was turned down by Hayato. Now, Tsukasa and Hayato are classmates in high school. Hayato treats Tsukasa as just a friend, but Tsukasa still has feelings for him. Meanwhile, Hayato becomes attracted to Tsukasa.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min
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The Bastard (1963)
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Based on the loosely autobiographical novel of the same name by Toko Kon. Ken Yamanouchi stars as Togo Konno, the titular bastard.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
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A Girl on the Shore (2021)
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In a seaside town where very little happens, middle school students Keisuke Isobe and Koume Satou live a rather dull life. But when Koume's crush breaks her heart, their situation becomes quite unordinary. She starts a "no-strings-attached" relationship with Keisuke, whom she had previously rejected, both finding solace in the other in order to fill the emotional voids in their lives. However, being "friends with benefits" becomes complicated when real feelings begin to develop, as the consequences of their relationship start to take their toll on those around them and themselves. A Girl on the Shore takes a harsh look at love, relationships, and the emotional price that will be paid as the result of a decision made between two teenagers.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Switching - Goodbye Me (2007)
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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.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 306
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
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Fighting Back (1982)
Plot Summary:
Fighting Back is a 1982 Australian film about troubled teenagers.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Far from Home (2022)
Plot Summary:
Through a scholarship to a top school, Ishaya ends up in the luxurious world of the happy few in Nigeria, but a secret threatens not only to put an end to this.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Drama
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 32 min
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Sweet Revenge (2021)
Plot Summary:
Mariko who seems to have no luck with romance but is actually the president of a company named Sweet Revenge which helps their female clients take revenge on men who have dumped them in cruel and harsh ways.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 7
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: manga
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Hitoshi Tadano, the Extraordinary Undercover Detective (2003)
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Hitoshi Tadano is an assistant manager of an advertisement company who seems to be nothing but a dull and incapable “nobody”. While most of the employees wonder why such a passive and incompetent person like Hitoshi is yet to be laid off, there is just one person who heavily relies on him as a “savior” to the company, the CEO. In fact, the “Mr. Nobody” is simply a disguise from the real Hitoshi, as he is under various special missions of the CEO to quietly carry on his “extraordinary” task to fight against the corruption of the company.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: sexy
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Reon (2018)
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Dumped, fired from her job, Reon’s day couldn't get any worse. Then a freak accident causes her to swap bodies with her old company’s womanizing CEO.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Parfait Tic! (2018)
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Fuko Kameyama is a first grade high school student and she has a bright personality. One day, cousins Daiya Shinpo and Ichi Shinpo move into an apartment upstairs from Fuko. Daiya has a bright smile. Ichi doesn't talk that much, but he has a warm heart. Fuko wavers between Daiya and Ichi.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: shoujo, romantic comedy
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Ruri's Island (2005)
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Ruri, having been abandoned by her mother to a foster care facility, lives a life of reckless abandonment. When Nakama Yuzo, a kind man but for a trigger-happy temper, runs into Ruri he realizes that perhaps she's the child he's been looking for. Yuzo lives in Hatomijima, a small insland in Okinawa where the population is 49 and the average age group is 61. There are no children. The island has only one school - a primary school. If a child is not enrolled in the school, it will be closed. As a result, society will abandon the island and in a few years, it will cease to have any inhabitants. To save their island, the locals decide to bring in a foster child. Ruri is their candidate, and with her she brings the hope of the island's survival.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 50 min
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My Girl (2009)
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Back in his high school years, Kazama Masamune had a girlfriend four years his senior, who one day left to go study abroad. Now, six years later, Kazama hears that his girlfriend has passed away, and that she had secretly given birth to their daughter, who is now five years old. Kazama then decides to raise his daughter on his own.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 49 min
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One Night Morning (2022)
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Relationships take on many forms. Some can be fleeting, delicate things that only last a moment, while others are sure and steady and can last a lifetime. More often than not, relationships fall somewhere in between, but whatever the relationship, each one is as unique as the people in them. Take the eight different couples in this story, for example. While each of them ends up sharing a night, how that night looks and what comes the morning after is entirely different. For the man reunited with his former high school classmate, the feelings he has harbored all these years give their time together a very specific meaning. Meanwhile, an evening shared by two individuals who regularly hook up for sex takes on an entirely different one. No matter what their dynamic may be, each couple in this series has this in common: they each share a meal the morning after. The question is, where do things go between them, once they’ve finished their breakfast?.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 7
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
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Tokyo Revengers 2 Part 1: Bloody Halloween - Destiny (2023)
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Hinata is murdered again by the Tokyo Manjikai Gang in front of Takemichi. In order to save Hinata, Takemichi travels 10 years back in time again. Takemichi has to change a key case that can save Hinata. The key case involves a sad incident that occurred to 6 men, who later formed the Tokyo Manjikai Gang.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
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Where the Tracks End (2023)
Plot Summary:
Georgina is a teacher determined to make a difference in the lives of the children she educates in the classroom of a wagon school in rural Mexico.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min
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The School We Went To (1980)
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Directed by Dariush Mehrjui.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration:
Plot tags: banned
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Hibiki (2018)
Plot Summary:
One day, literature magazine “Mokuren” receives a manuscript script for novel “Otogi no Niwa” by Hibiki Aku, a sensitive 15-year-old girl with a talent for writing.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, unusual plot structure, melancholic, semi serious, whimsical, weird
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Pleasure Campus: Secret Games (1980)
Plot Summary:
This is a combination of stories dealing with the ecstatic adventures of high school student Sachiko.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min
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Farewell, Kuro (2003)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story set in Matsumoto city, Nagano, during 1960s. A stray dog wanders into a high school's grounds. The dog, named Kuro, stays at the school and becomes a special friend to everyone.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: tear jerker, tearjerker
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The Flatterer (2015)
Plot Summary:
Story about Park Gun, who starts attending a high school full of troublemakers and former dropouts. ~~ Based on a webtoon of the same name.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags:
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Secret Campus (2006)
Plot Summary:
Modern students experience considerable stress during their school years; there is a strong focus on positive presentation and personality, as well as achieving good grades and encouraging athleticism. These demands are made without considering each student's individuality and strengths. This school-centered drama discusses the central theme outlined above and depicts the lives and relationships of six high school students— Moon Seung-jae, Oh Soo-ah, Park Doo-hyun, Cha Ah-rang, Yoon Se-in, Seo Jin-woo — each of whom has different dreams and goals which they struggle to achieve, despite trials and tribulations.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags:
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The Files of Young Kindaichi (2022)
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Kindaichi Hajime is a high school student and a private detective with an IQ of 180. He solves murder cases that are riddled with difficult clues. Kindaichi Hajime works with his childhood friend Nanase Miyuki and Kenmochi Isamu. Kenmochi Isamu is now the chief inspector of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, shounen
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The Red and the Blue (2012)
Plot Summary:
The story of a teacher and his students, set in an Italian high school.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 738
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing
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Silver and Gold (2017)
Plot Summary:
Morita, a man who never succeeds in anything, takes his anger out in gambling. He meets an underworld fixer named Ginji Hirai, who introduces him to the underworld trade, where billions of yen changes hands every moment, and speculators and other influential people bet their lives for greed.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags:
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Star Watching Dog (2011)
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An abandoned car is discovered near a camping ground and inside it is the body of an identified middle-aged man and a dog who seems to have died months later. This is the story of the life of the loving and faithful dog and his owner told from the dog's point of view. City hall employee Kyousuke Okutsu is assigned to uncover the man's identity for a proper funeral. As he investigates the situation, he remembers his late family and his own dog's unfailing loyalty.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: depressing, sad, tear jerker, tearjerker
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Life (2007)
Plot Summary:
Adapted from Keiko Suenobu's manga "LIFE," this drama delves into the dark side of high school life. The story focuses mainly on bullying, but the manga also touches on subjects such as self-mutilation, suicide, and rape. Kitano Kii stars as Ayumu Shiiba, one of the students bullied by a group of classmates led by Ayumu's former friend, Manami Anzai (Fukuda Saki).
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 36 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, dorama
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Seto and Utsumi (2016)
Plot Summary:
Utsumi and Seto's daily routine is to spend their afterschool hours just jabbering with one another along a riverbed. Getting excited over trivial word play, agonizing over the content of an email to be sent to a girl, and, at times, talking about a serious problem, the two endlessly engage in meaningless idle talk as if it were meaningful.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 809
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Hana Yori Dango: Final (2008)
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Domyoji holds an extravagant press conference to announce his wedding to Makino the following spring. The press is playing her up like a modern-day Cinderella and everything seems to be going well. Later, the families offer congratulations to the couple. Even Domyoji’s mother, who was formerly opposed to the relationship and tried desperately to break them up at every opportunity is suddenly happy for them. She even offers Makino a family heirloom: a tiara worth 10 billion yen (about $95 million USD) called “Smile of Venus”.r be meddling again, hoping to make it look like Makino carelessly lost the tiara herself? Or is someone at the hotel trying to cover up the crime? Domyoji and Makino are determined to get to the bottom of things and end up going on a wild adventure together which takes them through Las Vegas, Hong Kong, and various places throughout the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: dorama, sentimental, touching, sincere, disturbing, shoujo, anime
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Paradise Kiss (2011)
Plot Summary:
Hyasaka Yukari only wants one thing: to enter the college that her mom wants. One day, she meets an extravagant group that loves fashion. They were searching for a model and Yukari fits their ideal model. From now Yukari will know the world of fashion and modeling, and what she really wants.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: sentimental, romantic, shoujo, captivating, anime, realistic, crying, hot
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Kids on the Slope (2018)
Plot Summary:
Two different students—a successful but aloof academic and a rebellious but kindhearted delinquent—form a friendship through their love of jazz music.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 797
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: emotional, light, captivating, realistic, anime
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Liar Game: Reborn (2012)
Plot Summary:
To exact revenge, the Liar Game office is revived. The target is only one person: Shin'ichi Akiyama. Because of new heroine Shinomiya, Shin'ichi, who kept refusing to take part in the game, finds himself in the game. Along with Akiyama, there's 19 other players competing for the prize of two billion yen. Omega, who revived the game, plays the game at the Liar Game office with Alice. Alice sets up the game, chooses the players, and sets the traps.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing