Japanese Movies by Genre: Romance
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Piece of Cake (2015)
Director: Tomorowo Taguchi
Plot: After leaving an abusive relationship, Shino decides to quit her job and move away to a new area. She gets a part-time job at a local shop and discovers the manager is her also new neighbor, Kyoshiro. Shino finds herself quickly becoming attracted to Kyoshiro, but also knows he lives with his girlfriend Akari, who is almost immediately suspicious of Shino's intentions. With the failure of her last relationship in the forefront of her mind, Shino is hesitant to make more mistakes involving her love life, but must also weigh that against her own desire to find happiness. -
No Yona mono no Yona mono (2015)
Director: Yasukazu Sugiyama
Plot: A rakugo performer named Shinden is sent on a mission by his master Shinkome to find one of his former students Shintoto. Meanwhile. Shinden is secretly in love with Shinkome's daughter Yumi. -
Sekai kara Neko ga Kieta nara (2016)
Director: Akira Nagai
Plot: A postman is diagnosed with a terminal illness and discovers he doesn't have long to live. Soon, a devil appears to him in his own image with an offer to extend his life in exchange for removing things from his life. The man initially agrees to the devil's terms, giving up various things from his life which each buy him one extra day to live. However, as these things are erased, his connections to some of the most important people in his life--including his former girlfriend and his best friend--are also taken from him. -
Clover (2014)
Director: Takeshi Furusawa
Plot: Saya Suzuki is a young office lady who's hopeless when it comes to relationships and still hasn't gotten over her first love. Every day, Saya is scolded by her extremely strict boss Susumu Tsuge, a handsome executive with a promising future. One day Tsuge surprises Saya by suddenly asking her out. However, even as the two begin dating, Tsuge's harsh personality doesn't seem to change and they experience various complications on their path toward romance. -
Forget Me Not (2015)
Director: Kei Horie
Plot: High school senior Takashi falls in love with a girl named Azusa at first sight and the two begin dating. One day, Azusa makes a strange confession, telling Takashi that everyone forgets her a few hours after meeting her. At first Takashi doesn't believe Azusa, but over time he begins to realize that he's starting to forget the details of their time spent together. Soon he begins leaving notes documenting their time together so he doesn't forget. -
Strobe Edge (2015)
Director: Ryuichi Hiroki
Plot: Ninako Kinoshita is a high school freshman with no experience in love. When she meets Ren Ichinose--a handsome boy who's popular with all of their female classmates--on a train during their commute home, she starts encountering him more regularly and gradually develops feelings for him. However, Ren already has an older girlfriend. As the relationship of these two is explored, several other people in their lives must deal with their own feelings of unrequited love. -
Aozora no Roulette (2007)
Director: Shinichi Nishitani
Plot: A group of friends work as window washers as they try to establish themselves as a rock band on the side. One day a deaf girl named Kanako is moved to tears by their music at a show and a romance sparks between herself and a member of the band. -
Angel’s Egg (2006)
Director: Shin Togashi
Plot: A talented young artist named Ayuta Ipponyari doesn't feel like his girlfriend Natsuki is particularly supportive of his aspirations in the art world. One day he meets a new girl who he immediately becomes smitten by, but he soon discovers she's actually the older sister of Natsuki. -
Kabukicho Love Hotel (2014)
Director: Ryuichi Hiroki
Plot: Over the span of a single day and night, the lives of five people intersect at a love hotel in Tokyo's red light district of Kabukicho. Meanwhile, the hotel's manager Toru and his aspiring musician girlfriend Saya experience a lull in their relationship.Toru is distraught when he discovers two of the hotel's guests are Saya--who's agreed to sleep with a producer in exchange for a record contract--and his sister who's involved in a porn shoot on the second floor. -
Bakuman (2015)
Director: Hitoshi Ohne
Plot: Moritaka Mashiro and Akito Takagi are classmates who aspire to be manga creators, with Takagi writing and Mashiro providing the art. After hearing that Mashiro's crush Azuki wants to be a voice actress, they begin working on manga together under the pen name Muto Ashirogi with the promise that Mashiro will propose to Azuki once she's cast as a voice actress in an anime adaptation of their work. They soon begin submitting their manga to several major publications, but various obstacles hinder their success along the way.