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Plot Summary:
Shiwasu's mother left their home when Shiwasu was a little girl. Shiwasu does not understand why. She is a woman now and working at a Shinto shrine as a shrine maiden under her father who is a priest. She is listless until she finds a little boy alone on the shrine's grounds. The boy's mother shows up and retrieves her son a couple of days later. That is not the end of it however. The boy is back soon and has marks and bruises on his body. In the meantime, there was petty theft going on.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: detective
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Dear Deer (2015)
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When Fujio, Yoshio and Akiko were children, they saw a fantastic "Ryoumou Deer," but nobody believed them. The three siblings lived in a mountain village.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 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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Karaage USA (2014)
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Ayane is the daughter of a karaage (fried food) store owner, but she never liked karaage. Eventually, she left home, only to return 5 years later. Her family lives in the city of Usa in Oita Prefecture, Japan. She brings with her a young girl named Shirley, who is her step-daughter from her ex-husband.
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Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
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Miracle in Cell No. 7 (2022)
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Dodo Rozak just wants to be a good father to his daughter, Kartika, despite his limited intelligence, acts and behaves like children. In fact, it is Kartika who takes care of her father most of the time. Both live happily.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 803
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 145 min
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Not Quite Dead Yet (2020)
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After Nanase's father drops death due to a drug that causes temporal death for 2 days. She is named the president of her dad's Pharmaceutical company. Nanase endeavors to prevent her father's enemies from prematurely cremating his body before the drug can wear off and allow him to revive.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 529
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: crying
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Ramen Kuitee! (2018)
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A suicidal high school student, a ramen shop owner closing shop after the passing of his wife, and a cuisine researcher stranded in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region get connected due to a bowl of ramen.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min
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Mustard Chocolate (2017)
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Tsugumi Rinko can't wait to escape the tedium of high school for the challenges and rewards that accompany life at a fine arts college. She only has two problems: 1) She has few social skills and fewer friends. 2) With less than nine months remaining before her crucial admissions test, she has no practical art experience.
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Country: Japan
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Tori Girl! (2017)
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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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My Korean Teacher (2016)
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Young-Ung was dumped by his girlfriend. While he is in Okinawa, Japan on a business trip, the company he works for goes bankrupt. Sakura is a single mother and works for a travel agency. She needs to learn Korean for her job. At a Korean language institute, Sakura meets Young-Ung and their romance begins.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, uplifting, feel good, humorous, sweet
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Adrift in Tokyo (2007)
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Leading a lazy life, Fumiya has been a university student for 8 years and owes money to loan sharks. One day, a man named Fukuhara comes to collect the loan, which Fumiya cannot pay. So Fukuhara makes a proposition: He will cancel the debt as long as Fumiya agrees to walk with him across Tokyo to the police station of Kasumigaseki, where he intends to turn himself in for a crime he deeply regrets. Not having much choice, Fumiya accepts the deal. Thus begins their journey which will lead them to various unusual encounters, most of all with themselves.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, captivating, psychological, light, relaxing, clever, touching, offbeat, talky
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The Curtain Rises (2015)
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Saori (Kanako Momota) is a high school student at a provincial city. She is a member of playgroup at her school. Yoshioka (Haru Kuroki) begins to work at the same high school as a new teacher. Yoshioka performed in plays when she was in college back in Tokyo. Saori, Yukko (Shiori Tamai), Garuru (Reni Takagi), Nakanishi (Momoka Ariyasu), Akemi (Ayaka Sasaki) decides to compete in a play competition. Their goal is to make it through the regional competions, but Teacher Yoshioka tells them their aiming low and that they should think about the national competition.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 452
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
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Instant Swamp (2009)
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After being forced to resign from her publishing company job when her magazine goes out of circulation, office worker Haname Jinchoge (Kumiko Aso) is given the name of her real father-Noburo Jinchoge when her mother (Keiko Matsuzaka) falls into a coma after nearly drowning in a pond while searching for kappa. Unsure if Noburo (Morio Kazama) is her father, Haname decides to visit him but tells him that she is a distant relative, he happens to be the shopkeeper at an odd antiquities shop called Light Bulb Co., working for her father is a punk rocker named Gas (Ryo Kase).
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 705
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, entertaining, offbeat, not serious, weird
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Survival Family (2016)
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A world wide electrical outage occurs. Everything that requires electricity comes to a stop. Tokyo is nearly ruined. Yoshiyuki Suzuki (Fumiyo Kohinata) decides to escape from Tokyo with his family.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, psychological, light, feel good, art house
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Clockwise (1986)
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An uncompromising British school headmaster finds himself beset by one thing going wrong after another.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, road movie, witty, cult classic, colorful, black comedy, sentimental, humorous, realistic, not serious
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Christmas on Mistletoe Farm (2022)
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After inheriting a farm at Christmas time, a widowed father makes a bumpy adjustment to village life — while his kids hatch a plan to stay there forever.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
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Family Switch (2023)
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When the Walker family members switch bodies with each other during a rare planetary alignment, their hilarious journey to find their way back to normal will bring them closer together than they ever thought possible.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: family comedy
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Emil and the Piglet (1973)
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Nursing a piglet back to life because it´s the runt of the litter earns Emil a friend for life.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Sweden, West Germany
Duration: 97 min
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Drugstore Girl (2003)
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Pharmaceutical student, Keiko witnesses her boyfriend having an affair. Shocked and disappointed, she jumps on a train ("destination anywhere, east or west, she don't care") and ends up in a town named Masao in Tokyo's remote suburbs. There, she gets a part-time job at a newly opened drugstore. What do ya know.. The local shopping district's middle-aged men all fall for the young girl's charms, and they start practicing lacrosse once they have found out that that's her favourite sport.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
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Exte: Hair Extensions (2007)
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An aspiring hair dresser (Kuriyama) becomes the infatuation of a tricophilic man who sells hair extensions to nearby hair salons. The source of the hair is the corpse of a girl whose dead body continues to grow beautiful, voluminous, black hair that comes alive, driving those who use the extensions insane or killing them.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: surreal, scary, psychological, serious, christmas horror, slasher, disturbing, atmospheric, mind bending, psychedelic
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June and Kopi (2021)
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A street dog is taken in by a young couple, and the family pit becomes an instant accomplice as he adjusts to his new, loving home.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 639
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Bento Harassment (2019)
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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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Max Embarrassing 2 (2011)
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An amusing coming of age tale from Lotte Svendsen's Max-universe. Now 14, Max is about to decide on an internship and is finding it difficult to choose. He settles, against his mother's wishes, for a bank internship. But mother Agnethe, still quite embarrassing, takes action and enrols Max in a free spirited camp for the sake of his soul's salvation. Meanwhile his lovelife is hanging by a thread; Esther seems less and less interested in him even though he is making an effort to win her over. The Max universe is based on a perpetual idea that children are afraid to appear embarrassed as they evolve into maturity. Likewise, it seems that their parents also become embarrassed when they make attempts to protect their children or express their love for them.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, light, feel good
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Father There Is Only One 2 (2020)
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The success of the Conchy virtual assistant (which was developed by Javier) has earned him a favorable spot in the parents chat room - until something unexpected ruins it all.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, sitcom
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Father There Is Only One (2019)
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Madrid, Spain's capital (center of the country). According to himself, Javier is the perfect father of the 21st Century: working as CEO and computer technician for an important mobile phone company, he is all the days lost in his laptop programming new apps for an incoming project, neglecting his wife Marisa and his five children (teenager Sara, preteen Carlota, child Rocío and Dani, and little child Paula) despite he believes that all is right, that he knows perfectly to his children and that Marisa simply exaggerates any thing needlessly. It desperates to the own Marisa, who nicknames Javier as a perfect "husband brother-in-law" by the way to fix any trouble in the belief that he's perfect in anything he does, at the same time that she only counts with the help of Rosaura, Marisa's house maid, to care the children. But the situation explodes when Javier gives Marisa bad news: he cannot fulfill the long-time promised travel to the Caribbean travel to celebrate their 15 years of.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Savannah Smiles (1982)
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The young daughter of a politician runs away due to lack of attention. She hides in the car of two not too bright crooks who are slowly converted into parent figures as the police web closes down on the supposed kidnappers.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: entertaining, touching, epic, feel good, humorous, semi serious, independent film, detective, sentimental, light
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The Ugly Dachshund (1966)
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The Garrisons (Dean Jones and Suzanne Pleshette) are the "proud parents" of three adorable dachshund pups -- and one overgrown Great Dane named Brutus, who nevertheless thinks of himself as a dainty dachsie. His identity crisis results in an uproarious series of household crises that reduce the Garrisons' house to shambles -- and viewers to howls of laughter!.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, entertaining, light, sweet, feel good, semi serious, humorous, family comedy, hilarious, fairy tale
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My Dad and Mr. Ito (2016)
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He is rejected by his sister when the brother floats the idea that their father move from his house to her apartment. The father has other ideas however and shows up unannounced at her doorstep with his belongings. She has little space, a boyfriend she lives with it and does not need a cranky father.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, captivating
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Midnight Diner (2014)
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Every night, Master (Kaoru Kobayashi) is busy with customers at the restaurant he runs. He has a worried face, looking at the funerary urn which someone left at his restaurant. His customers also talk about the funerary urn.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Beethoven's 3rd (2000)
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Everyone's favorite St. Bernard returns in this family film about man's best friend. Richard Newton, his wife Beth and kids Brennan and Sara shove off in their camper for a road trip. Along the way, they gain a new passenger: slobbery Beethoven. The Newtons plan to return Beethoven to his owner -- but not before he turns hero when a pair of thieves enter the picture.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Family, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, independent film, feel good
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Daddy's Home (2015)
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The story of a mild-mannered radio executive (Ferrell) who strives to become the best stepdad ever to his wife's two children, but complications ensue when their freewheeling, freeloading real father arrives, forcing stepdad to compete for the affection of the kids.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 127000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, sweet, entertaining, humorous, satirical, light, hilarious, saga, captivating, absurd