Best movies like Ranma ½
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Plot Summary:
Akane is the youngest of three daughters for Soun Tendo. Her father Soun Tendo runs a dojo for martial arts. Akane hopes to carry on her father's dojo into the distant future. Meanwhile, Akane has been selected to marry Ranma, the son of her father's long time friend Genma. Akane and Ranma's relationship has developed into a love and hate relationship. Also, Ranma isn't your typical boy. While on a training journey Ranma fell into the Spring of the Drowned Girl and now changes into a women whenever cold water is splashed on him. Warm water will allow him to revert back to a male. Problems arise when Akane's father declares that the successor to their dojo must be a male. Now, Akane and Ranma (being a man only half of the time) must find a secret spring that can cure him of his curse.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, light, feel good, humorous, suspense, manga, anime, shounen
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Step Up Love Story: Love Again (2019)
Plot Summary:
A legendary love comedy manga that boasts tremendous popularity. Since it began being serialized in 1997, it has continued to attract many male fans and is still popular without fading. As the author's message "This is not just H manga", by not only describing sex simply, by arranging characters with various values, It is often composed of quotations such as male/female psychology and romance/marriage/sex/sex/sex differences between men and women, quotations, and personal opinions of authors. It is published in 12 countries around the world, including Koreans, Taiwan, the United States, and France.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: manga, anime
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Be a Man! Samurai School (2008)
Plot Summary:
Momotaro and Hidemaro are 1st-years at Otokojuku, a private boys school where true men are made. Momotaro, proficient in academics and martial arts becomes good friends with Hidemaro an underachieving weakling. Omito Date, former student leader, plans his revenge against his former school. Now leader of an evil army from rival Kanto Gogakuren school he fully intends on taking over Otokojuku.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: anime, manga
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Kaguya-sama: Love Is War - Final (2021)
Plot Summary:
After years of intense mental battle, the war between Kaguya and Shirogane heads towards its crashing end. Who will be the first to admit their love?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags:
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My Love Story!! (2015)
Plot Summary:
Takeo Goda (Ryohei Suzuki) is a high school student 2 m tall and weighting more than 100 kg. He has a righteous character. The male students adore him, but female students do not like him. All of the girls Takeo likes prefer his handsome friend Makoto Sunakawa (Kentaro Sakaguchi). One day, Takeo saves female high school student Rinko Yamato (Mei Nagano) from a pervert on train. Takeo falls in love with her at first sight. He feels Rinko likes Makoto, but Makoto isn't the one she likes. Takeo struggles to liaise between Rinko and Makoto.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 768
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: shoujo, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, anime
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Heroine Disqualified (2015)
Plot Summary:
Hatori Matsuzaki (Mirei Kiritani) is a female high school student. She has a crush on her childhood friend Rita Terasaka (Kento Yamazaki) and believes he will eventually choose her as her heroine, but Rita Terasaka begins dating Miho Adachi. Meanwhile, the most popular male student, Kosuke Hiromitsu (Kentaro Sakaguchi) takes an interest in Hatori Matsuzaki.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: romantic, funny, light, captivating, entertaining, shoujo, manga
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Policeman and Me (2017)
Plot Summary:
Kako, a 16-year-old high school girl, goes to a mixer pretending to be 22. While there, she meets Kouta who at first has a very intimidating aura. But once he saves her from an awkward situation, she wants to know more about him as does he. That is until he finds out she isn't 22. The next day Kako runs into him again, but this time he's working as a police officer. Kako still wants to get closer to Kouta, but he isn't interested...or is he?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 308
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: sentimental, light, sincere, touching, captivating, shoujo
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Real Girl (2018)
Plot Summary:
Hikaru Tsutsui is a high school student. He enjoys animation and video games in the virtual world, but he doesn't enjoy his real life. People at his school don't even know he exists. One day, he cleans up the pool at his school with beautiful Iroha Ikarashi. Iroha approaches Hikaru and confesses that she likes him.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 343
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: sexy, light, sincere, romantic, touching, humorous, manga, anime, teen comedy
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Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku (2020)
Plot Summary:
Live action film based on the popular webcomic.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 546
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: sincere, romantic, feel good, humorous, sweet, captivating, entertaining, manga, anime
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Chihayafuru Part I (2016)
Plot Summary:
When Chihaya Ayase was in the 6th grade of elementary school, she met Arata Wataya. Arata Wataya transferred from Fukui Prefecture. Taichi Mashima was Chihaya Ayase's friend since they were little. Arata got close to Chihaya and Taichi from the card game karuta. Four years later, Chihaya is a high school student. Chihaya learns that Arata, who went back to Fukui Prefecture, doesn't play karuta anymore. Believing they will meet Arata again, Chihaya and Taichi starts a karuta club at their high school.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, manga, shoujo
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My Big Night (2015)
Plot Summary:
During the never-ending TV taping for a New Year's Eve program, peoples personal lives clash and eventually explode out into the open.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: captivating, light, feel good, humorous, dark comedy
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Orange (2015)
Plot Summary:
Naho Takamiya is a 2nd year high school student. During the spring, Naho Takamiya receives a letter sent by herself from 10 years in the future. In the letter, she liked transfer student Kakeru Naruse. Kakeru Naruse carried emotional scars from his mother's suicide and he died one year later. 26-years-old Naho Takamiya thinks about Kakeru Naruse often. 2nd year high school student Naho Takamiya, with the knowledge of what she feels 10 years in the future, takes action to change her future.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: sexy, romantic, shoujo, psychological, unusual plot structure, humorous, contemplative, manga, cerebral
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Three Kids and a Dad (2019)
Plot Summary:
Rafael is thirty years old, divorced and father of three children. His love life is complicated by the single fact of being a single father by threefold. Become almost a serial boyfriend, his young conquests are not willing to take responsibility, little according to his age. Thus, Rafael decides not to fall in love anymore. It's time to just have fun and put a wall to any hint of feeling. But when he thinks he has everything under control, his ex-wife appears with a big announcement: she must travel abroad for six months and now Rafael must take care of his three little ones. A very complicated responsibility, which forces him to learn the true meaning of being a father.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Peru
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, entertaining, funny, light, romantic, captivating
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Bakuman (2015)
Plot Summary:
Moritaka Mashiro (Takeru Satoh) doesn't want to follow in the path of his uncle who worked as a manga artist, but ultimately died because of exhaustion. Moritaka Mashiro figures he will graduate from school and work at an office. Things change though when falls in love with a girl at school. The girl, who hopes to become a voice actress, tells Moritaka they can marry, but only after they both achieve their dreams. Moritaka then teams up with fellow classmate Akito Takagi (Ryunosuke Kamiki) to publish their first manga.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, stylized, anime, manga
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Psychic Kusuo (2017)
Plot Summary:
To the average person, psychic abilities might seem a blessing; for Kusuo Saiki, however, this couldn't be further from the truth. Gifted with a wide assortment of supernatural abilities ranging from telepathy to x-ray vision, he finds this so-called blessing to be nothing but a curse. As all the inconveniences his powers cause constantly pile up, all Kusuo aims for is an ordinary, hassle-free life—a life where ignorance is bliss. Unfortunately, the life of a psychic is far from quiet. Though Kusuo tries to stay out of the spotlight by keeping his powers a secret from his classmates, he ends up inadvertently attracting the attention of many odd characters, such as the empty-headed Riki Nendou and the delusional Shun Kaidou. Forced to deal with the craziness of the people around him, Kusuo comes to learn that the ordinary life he has been striving for is a lot more difficult to achieve than expected.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 680
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: anime, parody, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, psychotronic, exciting
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Ninja Kids!!! (2011)
Plot Summary:
The film stars Seishiro Kato as Rantaro who is sent to a ninja training school by his parents. During the summer, their teacher is invaded by a group of rival ninjas culminating in a race to ring a bell on top of a mountain.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 451
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating
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Lupin the 3rd (2014)
Plot Summary:
Interpol Inspector Zenigata begins a world-wide hunt for the infamous thief Lupin The 3rd. But together, they face a powerful enemy and form the Lupin team in response. The Lupin team then faces the challenge of retrieving the "Crimson Heart of Cleopatra" locked away in a fort like safe. The treasure is thought to allow its owner to control the world.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, humorous, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Gintama 2: Rules Are Made To Be Broken (2018)
Plot Summary:
The Yorozuya gang returns to protect the country's shogun when the Shinsengumi police force finds itself in a crisis.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, humorous, disturbing, semi serious, epic, period piece, shounen
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Kiss Me at the Stroke of Midnight (2019)
Plot Summary:
A stern young girl who yearns for romance, finds herself involved with a celebrity whose image reveals a hidden persona.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: sweet, sentimental, light, romantic, feel good, humorous
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Nisekoi: False Love (2018)
Plot Summary:
Raku Ichijo (Kento Nakajima) is an only son and a high school student. His father is the leader of yakuza group Shuei-gumi. Raku Ichijo doesn't like to fight and he studies hard. His dream is to become a public official. One day, he passes the entrance gate at his high school and is kicked inadvertently by Chitoge Kirisaki (Ayami Nakajo). She is a new transfer student at the school. Chitoge Kirisaki is the only daughter of a rival gang leader. To keep the peace between the rival gangs led by their fathers, Raku Ichijo and Chitoge Kirisaki decide to act as boyfriend and girlfriend. --asianwiki.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 413
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, anime, spy comedy
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We Married as a Job (2016)
Plot Summary:
A series of events leads single, 25 year old Mikuri Moriyama and 36 year old Hiramasa Tsuzaki to marry as a cover.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, feel good, suspenseful, romantic, romantic drama
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Kaguya-sama: Love Is War (2019)
Plot Summary:
A high school girl and boy are part of the student council at a pricey school. They have a crush on one another, but have kept it under wraps so far. With awareness and an inkling of what the other one feels for each the challenge becomes to make the opposite side profess his or her love first.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, anime
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Love Strikes! (2011)
Plot Summary:
Set one year after the drama series "Moteki." 31-year-old Yukiyo Fujimoto (Mirai Moriyama) doesn't have money, dreams or a girlfriend. He has left his job at a staffing firm and is attempting to start a new life by working as a writer for a news site. Suddenly, Yukiyo experiences "moteki" - a period when a man becomes suddenly popular with woman. Cute magazine editor Miyuki (Masami Nagasawa), pure and naive office worker Rumiko (Kumiko Aso), beautiful shop assistant Ai (Riisa Naka) and beautiful, but tough co-worker named Motoko (Yoko Maki) all become interested in Yukiyo. He tries to calm down, but is shaken by the interests of these women.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: humorous, psychological, light, sincere, feel good, manga, seinen
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You're My Pet (2011)
Plot Summary:
A woman finds a man in a box in front of her home and takes him in. She jokingly says she wants to keep him as her pet since the man reminds her childhood dog. The man agrees. Later the woman discovers that the man is a dance prodigy. Complications arise when her old flame from college appears.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, sincere, feel good, touching, realistic, romantic, sex comedy, anime
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Lovely Complex (2006)
Plot Summary:
Koizumi Risa an unusually tall high school girl, meets the "vertically challenged" young man Otani Atsushi. They find common ground in height anxieties and interests. Risa (Ema Fujisawa), a tall Japanese girl, gets rejected by a boy because she is taller than him. Otani (Teppei Koike), a short Japanese guy, gets rejected by a girl because he is shorter than her. Obviously these two would make the oddest of couples and would never be a good match for each other right? Well love doesn’t always follow such logic as Love Complex shows.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 964
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic, romantic, dorama, shoujo
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Wolf Girl and Black Prince (2016)
Plot Summary:
Erika Shinohara (Fumi Nikaido) is a first year of high school student. While talking to friends, she makes up a story about her "boyfriend." In reality, Erika Shinohara doesn't have a boyfriend. Erika's friends soon begin to doubt her story and Erika is also running out of lies. Erika then sees a pretty boy on the street and takes his picture discreetly. She later shows his picture to her friends as her boyfriend. The boy in the picture is Kyouya Sata (Kento Yamazaki) and happens to attend the same school as Erika. She tells Kyouya about her situation and asks him to be her pretend boyfriend. Even though Kyouya has a pretty appearance, he has a dark side.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, uplifting, touching, feel good, humorous, sweet, shoujo
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Mischievous Kiss the Movie Part 1: High School (2016)
Plot Summary:
Based on a popular manga series of the same name, this Japanese romantic comedy follows the lives of two high school students, Kotoko, a bubbly girl who’s hopeless in school, and Naoki, her smart and handsome senior. Although Kotoko gathers up the courage to confess her love to him, he bluntly rejects her in public. But fate works in mysterious ways - when her house collapses, a childhood friend of her father’s, Mr. Irie, invites them to live with his family, and she learns that the son of Mr. Irie is none other than Naoki himself….
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: light, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic comedy
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Bad Boy and Good Girl (2010)
Plot Summary:
Shinagawa Daichi used to be a good student who has now become a delinquent, while class president Adachi Hana was a delinquent who is now trying to move on. Her secret is discovered by Shinagawa, but she involves herself trying to correct his ways.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: light, humorous, entertaining, dorama
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Assassination Classroom: The Graduation (2016)
Plot Summary:
Story continues with the students' own conflicts, Koro Sensei’s identity and the fate of the world. The time limit for assassination is approaching.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 916
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, light, humorous, captivating, surreal, manga
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Assassination Classroom (2015)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious creature destroys 70% of the moon. The creature then warns that if he is not destroyed by March of next year, Earth will be next. The creature also demands that he becomes the homeroom teacher for 3rd grade E class at Kunugigaoka Junior High School. The government is powerless to say no. The creature then becomes the homeroom teacher of 3rd grade E class which consists of failed students including Nagisa Shiota (Ryosuke Yamada). The creature is called Teacher Koro. Meanwhile, the government requests that the students try to kill Teacher Koro even though he possesses super powers. The government offers a 10 billion yen reward for whomever successfully kills him. The students are confused by the situation, but decide to kill Teacher Koro. When their class begins with Teacher Koro, the students finds themselves having a good time with their new teacher.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, manga, tense, light, humorous, slasher, surreal, lovecraft
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Sukimasuki (2015)
Plot Summary:
Heisaku is a university student. He is obsessed with peeping on his neighbor Fumio through the cracks in her curtain. Fumio is aware that Heisaku is peeping on her and she even observes Heisaku through her window.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious