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Waiting for the Comet

1995 Movie Romance

Shinji Imaoka’s debut film about three men, a woman, and a dead body.

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2 Shares actors and at least one genre with this title

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Lunchbox poster
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The film tells the story of Aiko, a 35-year-old mute woman who works in a bowling alley, and her brief romance with Yoshioka, a younger man who works as a postal carrier. The two meet when Aiko accidentally knocks Yoshioka off his bicycle, and they have a sexual encounter soon after. Aiko begins preparing lunchboxes and giving them to Yoshioka at his workplace as a way of expressing affection, which she cannot do verbally.

Lunchbox

★ 4.5 2004 Romance

Shares 2 cast members · Same director

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After a career-ending accident, former NFL recruit Ian Hunter is back on campus, and he's putting his extensive skills with women to work as one of the masterminds behind a successful and secretive dating service. But when Blake Olson requests the services of Wingmen, Inc., Ian may have landed his most hopeless client yet. As Blake begins the transformation from hot mess to smokin' hot, Ian realizes he's in danger of breaking his cardinal rule....

The Matchmaker's Playbook

★ 7.2 2018 Romance

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Colin, an ambitious young American businessman, has a deal with a potential client, a rich Arab sheikh who is a passionate pigeon fancier. The sheikh has tried several times to buy a champion pigeon, but the owner continues to stubbornly refuse his offer. In an attempt to gain the trust of the Sheikh, Colin offers him a deal: if he manages to convince the owner to sell the champion pigeon, the sheikh will agree to do business with Colin's company. But when Colin meets Jos, the grumpy owner of the pigeon, and Isabella, his granddaughter, he realizes that this mission will not be as easy as he had hoped.

Flying Home

★ 5.9 2014 Romance

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At a university basketball club where the members care more about flirting than practicing, everything changes with the arrival of Coach Asagiri, whose passion reignites the team's spirit. Among the players, the rivalry—and growing attraction—between Takumi and Kiyohiko slowly comes to light. As competition intensifies on and off the court, a complex triangle of youth, desire, and pride begins to unfold. What starts as a casual club soon becomes a battlefield of emotions where love and ambition collide.

A Slam Dunk Love

2001 Romance

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Unfaithful Wife: Sticky and Messy poster
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Middle-aged Hiroshi, a 53‑year‑old salaryman whose wife cheats on him and whose daughter barely tolerates him, finds himself discarded by his company and adrift—until a mysterious phone call from Mariko, his long‑lost love who supposedly died thirty years ago, pulls him into a forbidden reverie and dreams of a different life with her. Mariko, embodied by the irresistible Yōko Satomi—dressed in the provocative uniforms and iconic emblems of the old protest movements—the past awakens in tantalizing detail. As Hiroshi dials into a life he might have lived with Mariko, full of erotic promise and the intoxicating thrill of rewriting his destiny.

Unfaithful Wife: Sticky and Messy

2002 Romance

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