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Plot Summary:
A 5th grade elementary school student meets a transfer student who has a mysterious charm about her. He then learns her big secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min
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A Morning of Farewell (2021)
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Sawako worked as an emergency physician at a university hospital. Due to to a situation, she returns to her father Tatsuro's home in Ishikawa Prefecture. She then begins to work at the local Mahoroba Clinic. She works with the clinic director Toru, Nurse Mayo and staff Seiji. Seiji, who worked with Sawako at the university hospital, followed her and works with her again. Mahoroba Clinic provides home healthcare to patients. Sawako visits the patients' homes and provides treatment there. At first, she has a hard time due to the different system. She becomes acclimated to the different system and finds a way to deal with the patients, their lives, and their families. --asianwiki.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
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Same Old, Same Old (2016)
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Focusing on the lives (and a few deaths) of three filmmakers, Rikiya Imaizumi (Their Distance, Sad Tea) tackles weighty themes in this new ensemble drama set in Tokyo and Fukushima. Director Kajiwara, struggling to earn a living from film, gets an offer to do a music video. But it doesn’t go well and he finds himself in an unexpected situation. Actress Aoba witnesses her filmmaker boyfriend's suicide and decides to hide his body. Gardener Taro plans to close the family business he inherits from his father, but receives a phone call one night from the self-declared girlfriend of his estranged twin, Jiro.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 142 min
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Whale Island's Thing Left Behind (2018)
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Aimi (Ito Ono) lost her mother due to the Kyoto earthquake in 1995. She remembered watching whales with her mother and moved to Okinawa to see whale's jumping out of the water again. Aimi has now lost hope for life. During this time, she meets a young Vietnamese man, Khoa Nguyen (Win Morisaki), who came to Okinawa to receive training at an IT company. Aimi is moved by his nostalgia for his hometown and his passion for work. She faces her life again and develops feeling for him.
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Genere: Family, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
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Hello, Goodbye (2016)
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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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Waiting For Spring (2018)
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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Enoshima Prism (2013)
Plot Summary:
Shuta (Sota Fukushi), Saku (Shuhei Nomura) and Michiru (Tsubasa Honda) have been best friends since they were kids. Tragedy strikes the friends when during the winter of 2010, Saku dies from a heart attack. After Saku's death, Shuta and Michiru become more distant. On the third year anniversary of Saku's death, Shuta boards a train in the Enoshima subway. Somehow, Shuta travels back in time to 2010, before Saku died from a heart attack. Although Shuta is confused by the time change, he attempts to save Saku by changing the past.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 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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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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Dreamscape (2011)
Plot Summary:
1,000 years ago Earth was visited by an alien race from another dimension, the Grays, who used their technology to mix human and alien DNA to create a superior race, the Hybrids. The Grays, feeling they had accomplished their goals, took a group of Hybrids back to their dimension and left the rest on Earth. The Hybrids quickly turned on their creators and took over their dimension. Fearing for the humans, the Grays returned to Earth and deactivated the Hybrids, allowing them to live as part of the human race unaware of what they truly were. To prevent the Hybrids from crossing over into the human universe to reactivate the Hybrids left behind, the Grays recruit a team of human spiritual warriors to stand between the Hybrids and Earth.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: independent film
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Kokey (1997)
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On their way home, Bong and Anna discover Kokey, an extraterrestrial whose space ship explodes upon landing on earth. Without the knowledge of their parents, the children keep Kokey at home. The three soon become the best of friends with Kokey turning out to be a big help to the family and their business, attracting customers using his extraterrestrial powers. But Kokey becomes homesick, pointing to the sky in silent tears, missing his parents. He tries to contact them but with no success. Will he ever be reunited to his family? How long can the children keep Kokey a secret?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: Philippines
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Nukie (1987)
Plot Summary:
Two alien brothers crash their ship in the U.S. They get separated, and one searches the country for the other one.
IMDB Rating: 1.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Family, Sci-Fi
Country: South Africa, UK, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, spooky
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Pig's Breakfast (1999)
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Pig's Breakfast is an Australian children's television series that was broadcast in 1999. The story involves two aliens, Meeba and Grob, who have crashed at a television studio on Earth in a galactic school bus. A producer at the station finds them and puts them in a TV show, thinking that the aliens are actors in costumes. Her two children, Rodney and Lucy, are the only ones who know that they are actually aliens.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 25 min
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The Glitterball (1977)
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Two teenage boys try to help a tiny spherical alien get back to its mothership, while the army and a devious petty crook pursue the creature for its wonderful powers.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: retro, offbeat, grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film
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Reiko, the Psyche Resurrected (1991)
Plot Summary:
Reiko, the Psyche Resurrected is a 1991 Japanese film. The film was produced by the Japanese film company Toho.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
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Girl's Step (2015)
Plot Summary:
Azusa (Anna Ishii) and Narumi (Fuka Koshiba) are 2nd grade high school students. They lack confidence and also any kind of ambitions. Hazuki (Karin Ono), Tamaki (Mika Akizuki) and Mika (Miku Uehara) are also unnoticed students at the same high school. These five girls form a dance club and begin to dance to get credits. They soon learn the joys of dancing and also learn to express themselves.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: funny, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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A Banana? At This Time of Night? (2018)
Plot Summary:
Hisashi Tanaka is a medical student in Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan. He does volunteer work and gets to know Yasuaki Kano at the hospital. Yasuaki Kano has suffered from muscular dystrophy since he was 12-years-old. Yasuaki Kano has his eccentric ways like running out of the hospital and saying that he wants to eat a banana late at night. Hisashi Tanaka thinks Yasuaki Kano is a lovely person. Yasuaki Kano develops a crush on rookie volunteer Misaki Ando. He asks Hisashi Tanaka to write a love letter for him, but Misaki Ando is Hisashi Tanaka’s girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
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Our Departures (2018)
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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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Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star (1986)
Plot Summary:
Three aliens from the planet Taros land on Earth and are befriended by a Wyoming rancher's son.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Zarkorr! The Invader (1996)
Plot Summary:
An "average" postal worker is informed by a tiny alien hologram which looks like a teenage girl that he is the "choosen one" to destroy a giant reptile to save the Earth.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 408
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: daikaiju, independent film, bizarre, cult film
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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
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Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Pet Shop (1994)
Plot Summary:
Kids' film about a couple of aliens who come to earth and open up a pet shop in an attempt to try and eat some of earth's children for dinner.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 504
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: mysterious, psychotronic, independent film
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Before We Vanish (2017)
Plot Summary:
Narumi is on bad terms with her husband Shinji when one day, Shinji goes missing. He comes back a couple of days later, but seems like a totally different person, and is now gentle and tender. He goes for a walk every day. Meanwhile, Journalist Sakurai covers the story of a family that was brutally murdered, when an unexplained phenomenon takes place. Shinji Kase tells his wife that he came to Earth to invade.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, captivating, contemplative, realistic, road movie, detective
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Bento Harassment (2019)
Plot Summary:
Kaori (Ryoko Shinohara) is a single mother and she raises her high-school age daughter Futaba (Kyoko Yoshine). Her daughter is in a rebellious phase and ignores her mother. Kaori decides to take measures to communicate with her daughter and also get some revenge. Kaori creates messages in her daughter's bento meals.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, feel good, humorous, sincere, touching, entertaining
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The Christmas Martian (1971)
Plot Summary:
A martian comes to a small town in Quebec and becomes friends with the town children. He gives them candy to get the children into his spacecraft. This alarms the parents but he wins them over and they have a great big Christmas party.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, canadian science fiction
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Tokyo Shutter Girl (2013)
Plot Summary:
The movie Tokyo Shutter Girl, based on the comic series by Kenichi Kiriki, consists of three separate works by three separate directors, each set in Tokyo. It is about three Japanese schoolgirls in a photo club.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: anthology, sexual
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Super Monster (1980)
Plot Summary:
When the evil alien Zanon comes to enslave Earth, all hope seems lost. The Earth's resident superheroes, the Spacewomen, are powerless to stop him. They must enlist the help of a young boy who has a special connection with the giant turtle Gamera. The Friend of All Children then battles Gyaos (a flying monster), Zigra (an alien shark), Viras (a space squid), Jiger (a giant lizard), Guiron (a space beast) and finally Barugon (another giant lizard). Gamera then sacrifices himself to kill Zanon by destroying the space pirate's ship.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: daikaiju, natural horror, psychotronic, cult film
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Skyrunners (2009)
Plot Summary:
Tyler and his brother find an alien ship which makes Tyler appear older and gives him other abilities. This turns his high school life upside down, and may enable him to help his older brother's love life. After he is abducted by beings who intend to takeover Earth, he must depend on his inept and lovelorn brother to rescue him.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, semi serious, surprise ending, captivating, disturbing, tense, epic
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Earth to Echo (2014)
Plot Summary:
After a construction project begins digging in their neighborhood, best friends Tuck, Munch and Alex inexplicably begin to receive strange, encoded messages on their cell phones. Convinced something bigger is going on, they go to their parents and the authorities. When everyone around them refuses to take the messages seriously, the three embark on a secret adventure to crack the code and follow it to its source. But taking matters into their own hands gets the trio in way over their heads when they discover a mysterious being from another world who desperately needs their help. The epic, suspenseful and exciting journey that follows will change all of their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, sentimental, suspenseful, stylized, enigmatic, scenic, freeze frame, serious, psychotronic, light
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D.A.R.Y.L. (1985)
Plot Summary:
Daryl is a normal 10-year-old boy in many ways. However, unbeknown to his foster parents and friends, Daryl is actually a government-created robot with superhuman reflexes and mental abilities. Even his name has a hidden meaning -- it's actually an acronym for Data Analyzing Robot Youth Life-form. When the organization that created him deems the "super soldier" experiment a failure and schedules Daryl to be disassembled, it is up to a few rogue scientists to help him escape.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Family, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: uplifting, epic, mindfuck, colorful, touching, serious, eighties, nostalgic
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Time Traveller (2010)
Plot Summary:
Akari Yoshiyama is graduating high school soon and is expected to lead new life after she passes the university entrance exam, while her mother is working as a pharmacologist. However, her mother has a car accident and the situation is totally changed. She decides to go to 1972 to fullfil her mother's wish.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, atmospheric, feel good, romantic, offbeat, psychotronic