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Plot Summary:
Sawamura, a contract part-timer dragged into a multi-million yen internet business, and Kamo, an office worker who lavished money on a beautiful club hostess, arrive at Cowcow Finance, the office of black-market lender Ushijima.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
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The Lost Patient (2022)
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The 19 years old Thomas wakes up in a hospital after three years in a coma. He doesn't remember anything. The psychologist Anna tells him that his family has been murdered and that he is the only survivor of the massacre while his sister Laura is still missing.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
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Tiffany Jones (1973)
Plot Summary:
Light-hearted and occasionally unclothed adaptation of a British comic strip in the over-the-top, on-beyond-Bond spy fantasy vein. Based on the Daily Mail comic strip.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, independent film, sexploitation film, hot
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Jimmy Santos as the innocent Bondying.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Comedy
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Duration: 104 min
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41-year-old Shizuo Daikoku (Shinichi Tsutsumi) suddenly quits his job at a company to become a mangaka. His family and friends become involved in his new pursuit.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min
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Billie Turf contra Kwel (1983)
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Denheuvel boarding school. Billie Turf, the fattest student in the world, is always in conflict with Master Kwel. This time Turf studies hypnosis, pretends to be baroness and thieves arrive who have paid for the school fees.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy, slapstick
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King Guillaume (2009)
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Magali plays in a brass band. Guillaume drives a small tourist train. Both spin a perfect love, they share modest dreams and their baby is about to come. But an unexpected news upsets their routine: a man appears and announces that he is Guillaume's estranged father and also reveals that Guillaume is his legitimate heir of a kingdom offshore of France and England. Guillaume and Magali start to dream of a life as monarchs, surrounded by faithful subjects in their castle, enjoying their wealth. But reality is often different to what you can imagine.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: anime, urban fantasy
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H2: The Days with You (2005)
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Drama series based on manga H2 by Adachi Mitsuru about two rival high school baseball games. The stars of each team, Hideo and Hiro, happen to be childhood friends.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 141
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IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 80 min
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Saru Lock the Movie (2010)
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
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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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IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
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The king and the queen conceive Snow White during a sexual relationship in the snow.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, parody, sex comedy
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Paz! (2002)
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A bunch of students live in an apartment in Bologna, during the 70's. This is a 24-hour sample of their ordinary life, where, between marjuana, school, university, girls and political contrasts, spectators can get a nice and colourful picture of that time, of those people and of their ideas and problems. Crazy, halucinated, somehow "Trainspotting Italian style", this movie was taken from comic strips by Andrea Pazienza and it respects very well their atmosphere and style.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
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Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again (1990)
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The classic comic book characters created by John L. Goldwater are brought to tv in a slightly older version. Here the characters are adults returning to their high school reunion and remembering old times and romances from good old Riverdale High.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 501
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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Ushijima the Loan Shark 2 (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ushijima runs Kaukau Fiance, a black market lending agency which scourges its clients with interest rates as high as 50% for 10 days. Ushijima chases down his debtors, who normally come from the bottom of society, with ruthless efficacy.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min
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The Tokyo Olympics are about to open, and Rynosuke Chagawa is excited to receive a new TV set to watch the upcoming events. His wife Hiromi is pregnant and he has built a second level on his shop to provide his adopted son Junnosuke with a private space to study for entrance to Tokyo University to set up a career with a major company. He dreams of sparing Junnosuke the struggles that he has faced as a writer. The family continues to rely upon Hiromi's income from her bar. Meanwhile a rival story, The Virus, by a new writer has appeared in the periodical that has been publishing his stories "Boy's Adventure Book" and he fears the new competition. Norifumi Suzuki also receives a new TV, but more of a deluxe model. Mutsuko Hoshino (Roku) is still the principal mechanic in the Suzuki family's auto repair shop, but she dresses up some mornings to go to a nearby street with the hope of a "chance" meeting with Dr.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 719
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 142 min
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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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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
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Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min
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Serenade for Two Spies (1965)
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Another Eurospy flick.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 52
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: manga
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
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Country: France
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Ushijima the Loan Shark The Final (2016)
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A classmate from Ushijima's middle school days, Takemoto, shows up. He was a kind man, but now is jobless and without a home. Adrift and unable to borrow money from Ushijima, Takemoto heads for Seiai Home where he can stay while doing work.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, satirical
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The evil is back and this terrorizing the swim team at an all girl school. After turning the Principal into a frog monster they commence with their own brand of twisted training and punishment. But Kekko Kamen has also returned to right the wrongs and send the MGF packing once again or can she, they seem stronger and smarter then ever have been before, it's sink or swim time for Kekko Kamen.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 76
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Bakuman (2015)
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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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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
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When a good student named Kamiyama gets placed in a high school filled with disobedient kids, he steps up to the plate and takes a position of leadership. Urging the young slackers and rebels to clean up their act, Kamiyama is in store for a lot of resistance.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 411
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min
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After her parents divorced, Shima Sumitomo lived with her mother. She felt uncomfortable living with her stepfather and she was unable to hang out with people at her high school. Shima Sumitomo decides to move to Hokkaido where her father lives. At her new high school in Hokkaido, she meets classmate Gen Tatebayashi and Wao Sakurai. They are the two most popular boys at her school. A principle of her school is that "Gen and Wao are for everyone." If anyone breaks the rule, that person will be ostracized. Even so, Shima Sumitomo gets closer to Gen and Wao.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 167
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 630
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Country: France, Belgium
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