Films like The Wind Rises

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   Millennium Actress

   Film · 2002 · also animation and drama

   Documentary filmmaker Genya Tachibana has tracked down the legendary actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who mysteriously vanished at the height of her career. When he presents her...

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   Escaflowne: The Movie

   Film · 2000 · also animation and drama

   Gaea is a mythical realm ruled by sword and sorcery and immersed in blood and violence. Thrust into a conflict she doesn't quite understand, Hitomi Kanzaki helps aid the...

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   In This Corner of the World

   Film · 2016 · also animation and drama

   Japan, 1943, during World War II. Young Suzu leaves her village near Hiroshima to marry and live with her in-laws in Kure, a military harbor. Her creativity to overcome d...

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   The Princess and the Pilot

   Film · 2011 · also animation and drama

   The war between the Levamme Empire and the Amatsukami Imperium has been raging for years. In the midst of this struggle, the prince of the Levamme Empire declares his lov...

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   The Place Promised in Our Early Days

   Film · 2004 · also animation and drama

   In a post-war alternative timeline, Japan is divided into the North, controlled by the Union, and the South, controlled by the United States. A mysterious high tower rise...

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   Giovanni's Island

   Film · 2014 · also animation and drama

   In the aftermath of the most devastating conflict mankind had ever experienced, the tiny island of Shikotan became part of the Sakhalin Oblast... and on the unhealed bord...

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   The Boy and the Heron

   Film · 2023 · also animation and drama

   While the Second World War rages, the teenage Mahito, haunted by his mother's tragic death, is relocated from Tokyo to the serene rural home of his new stepmother Natsuko...

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   5 Centimeters per Second

   Film · 2007 · also animation and drama

   Three moments in Takaki's life: his relationship with Akari and their forced separation; his friendship with Kanae, who is secretly in love with him; the demands and disa...

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   Ocean Waves

   Film · 1993 · also animation and drama

   At Kichijōji Station, Tokyo, Taku Morisaki glimpses a familiar woman on the platform opposite boarding a train. Later, her photo falls from a shelf as he exits his apartm...

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    Buddha: The Great Departure

    Film · 2011 · also animation and drama

    Prince Siddhartha is heir to the Shakya kingdom, which is constantly at war with the more powerful Kosala kingdom. His father tries to raise as him as a warrior leader an...

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