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Plot Summary:
High school student Kasumi Ogino (Kaho) is a member of the school choir and after years of praise for her singing voice thinks she is the absolute bee’s knees. When the object of her desires, classmate and photographer Junichi Makimura (Hideo Ishiguro), asks Kasumi is he can photograph her singing she accepts, thinking this means she is beautiful as well. However the end result is a comical shot of Kasumi with her mouth wide open, which Makimura likes to a hungry salmon! Distraught by the ensuing humiliation, Kasumi quits the choir, until she is encouraged to return by an unlikely counsel - the brutish leader of thuggish rival all male choir, Hiroshi Gondo (Gori).
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
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Go Go 70's (2008)
Plot Summary:
A movie about the first Korean soul band in 1970's.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min
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Geek USA (2013)
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"Geek USA" is a quirky romantic comedy filled with 90s nostalgia about a high school senior in a rock band who suddenly goes from zero social life to having three very competitive dates for prom.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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I'm Still Here... Damn It! (1998)
Plot Summary:
1999 standup special.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Satoshi, who is a high school junior, is doing something against the rules. He is forming a band. Joining him is Rin. They nonetheless perform at the school's cultural festival live in front of their fellow students. There is a mishap and Satoshi travels back in time to the moment when he met Rin.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Romance
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Duration: 106 min
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IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
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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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The Groper Train: Search for the Black Pearl (1984)
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The world's largest black pearl has vanished without a trace, and it's up to Detective Ippei to track it down. His only clue is the mysterious words of a dying man, who managed to mutter "Pussy Print!" before slipping away forever. Teaming with the man's younger widow Matsuko, Detective Ippei boards a local train and begins taking prints of the female passenger's vulvas in hopes of matching one to the print that Matsuka's husband had in his possession at the time of his death.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 64 min
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Have a Song on Your Lips (2015)
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Yuri Kashiwaga was once known as a genius pianist. One day, she returns to her hometown in Goto Islands from Tokyo. There, she begins to work as a temporary teacher at a middle school and advisor for the school chorus. The chorus aims to take part at a competition. Yuri gives the members of the chorus members an assignment. She instructs them to write a letter with the title of “To myself 15 years later.” The 15-year-old boys and girls write about their secrets and worries.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 713
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: realistic
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Anonymous Noise (2017)
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Every day, a young girl wearing a mask stands by the beach and sings a nostalgic melody. After experiencing two sudden heart-wrenching partings when she was only a child, Nino Arisugawa has been singing her songs to the ocean, bound by a promise made with her two childhood friends—her first love, Momo Sakaki, and a boy who composed music, Kanade "Yuzu" Yuzuriha. Having never met each other, the boys both individually promised that if Nino was ever separated from them, her voice would be the beacon to reunite them once again.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min
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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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Cats Don't Come When You Call (2016)
Plot Summary:
Mitsuo is a boxer who prefers dogs but ends up looking after two cats that his brother rescues.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min
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Too Young To Die! (2016)
Plot Summary:
High school student Daisuke has a crush on classmate Hiromi. On the way to a school trip, the bus with Daisuke has an accident. When Daisuke wakes up, he finds himself in Hell. He asks himself "Why only me? I'm too you young to die and I've never experienced a kiss." Then, Killer K appears in front of the confused Daisuke. Killer K leads the rock band Heruzu from Hell Agricultural High School. To return to the living and confess his feelings to Hiromi, Daisuke's hell rounds begin under Killer K's special training.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 722
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, sweet
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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
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Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min
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Drugstore Girl (2003)
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 167
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My Life Changed When I Went to a Sex Parlor (2013)
Plot Summary:
Live action film adaptation of a romance that was turned into a book after making a splash on the Internet bulletin board “2 Channel.” Humorously depicts a 29-year-old virgin who meets a prostitute, and struggles with love. Directed by Iizuka Ken of Arakawa Under the Bridge.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Tokyo University Story (2006)
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Murakami Naoki is the most intelligent student at his high school, but he can't stop obsessing over a girl named Mizuno Haruka. He finally asks her out, and to his surprise, she accepts. After several months of a loving yet obviously doomed romance, it comes time for them to take the entrance exams for Tokyo University. What will happen to their relationship if only one of them is accepted?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min
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High school girl Madoka may look pretty and cute, but there is another side to her. She can exact revenge, land a good punch or a kick and not care about limits. She opts to inflict pain, coerce and blackmail a virgin when she is sensually touched on the train. She begins making his life hell.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 52
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Country: Japan
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Makoto Gousuke has just transferred to a new high school with the intention of being the toughest kid there. Little does he know that there‘s an entire group of toughs who already rule the school, and they‘re all girls! After being humiliated by their leader, the pretty Misaki Shizuka, he vows revenge and starts a lengthy battle between the sexes at the school.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 48
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Country: Japan
Duration:
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Plot Summary:
The story of Dan Vardy-Cobb as he aspires to become a pop star.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 81
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Country: Australia
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
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A high school girl, Sayaka Kudō was the bottom of the class. After a year, she improved her deviation value from 30 to 70, then passed Keio University that is considered one of the most difficult to enter in Japan.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min
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After Elizabeth's husband dies, she begins to play her tenor saxophone again, and remembers when she was 15 and a member of the Blonde Bombshells, an all-girl (with one exception) swing band. Accompanied by the exception and urged on by her grand-daughter, Elizabeth hunts up all the old members of the band and urges them to perform, and in doing so, learns more than she knew about the band, its members, the roses on the drum set, and herself--the last of the Blonde Bombshells.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
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Country: UK, USA
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Change of Address (2006)
Plot Summary:
In Paris, the emotional and professional tribulations of a musician and his roommate. Fraîchement installé à Paris, David, un musicien, timide et maladroit, tombe fou amoureux de sa jeune élève, Julia. Il tente tout pour la séduire. Sa colocataire, Anne, l'encourage, le conseille, et le console... passionnément !.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 861
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, entertaining, touching, realistic, semi serious
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Kay Montgomery is a top finalist who gets kicked off America's hottest singing competition and is forced to move back in with her mother as reality cameras follow her every move.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Haruko Azumi is a 28-years-old woman. She is a single and works at an office. One day, she suddenly disappears on a typical street with retail stores lined up. After her disappearance, her missing person poster is spread across the city.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Swing Girls (2004)
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A tale of delinquent and lazy school girls. In their efforts to cut remedial summer math class, they end up poisoning and replacing the schools brass band.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
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Linda Linda Linda (2005)
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A group of four high school girls decide to put together a band for their school cultural festival. Three days before they are to play the festival, the guitarist and singer quit the band. The remaining members must figure out what to do or risk canceling. They need to find a new member to be the singer, so they ask the first girl who walks by. Unfortunately, she doesn't speak Japanese very well. Only three days before their high school festival, guitarist Kei (Yu Kashii), drummer Kyoko (Aki Maeda), and bassist Nozumi (Shiori Sekine) are forced to recruit a new lead vocalist for their band. They choose Korean exchange student Son (Bae Doo-Na), though her comprehension of Japanese is a bit rough! It’s a race against time as the group struggles to learn three tunes for the festival’s rock concert—including a classic '80s punk-pop song by the Japanese group The Blue Hearts called “Linda Linda”.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
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Pitch Perfect 3 (2017)
Plot Summary:
After the highs of winning the world championships, the Bellas find themselves split apart and discovering there aren't job prospects for making music with your mouth. But when they get the chance to reunite for an overseas USO tour, this group of awesome nerds will come together to make some music, and some questionable decisions, one last time.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 70000
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Country: USA, China
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Fired from his band and hard up for cash, guitarist and vocalist Dewey Finn finagles his way into a job as a fifth-grade substitute teacher at a private school, where he secretly begins teaching his students the finer points of rock 'n' roll. The school's hard-nosed principal is rightly suspicious of Finn's activities. But Finn's roommate remains in the dark about what he's doing.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 324000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 109 min
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