Movies Like Preventing the kidnapping of elementary school student Yumi
If you liked Preventing the kidnapping of elementary school student Yumi (1991), a animation movie directed by Katsumi Endo, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Summer Wars (2009)
★ 7.5/10Also animationTeenage math whiz Kenji Koiso agrees to take a summer job at the Nagano hometown of his crush, Natsuki. When he arrives, he finds that her family have reunited to celebrate the 90th birthday of their matriarch. His…
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Detective Conan: The Last Wizard of the Century (1999)
★ 7.4/10Also animationKaitou Kid dares to challenge the police once more, setting his sights on the Russian Imperial Easter Egg. With the date, time, and place, the Osaka police force scrambles to stop him. But this time, Kid may have…
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Hello World (2019)
★ 7.3/10Also animationA shy high schooler in Kyoto meets a man claiming to be his future self, who tells him he’s hacked into the past to save their first love.
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Stand by Me Doraemon 2 (2020)
★ 7.8/10Also animationNobita travels to the future to show his beloved grandma his bride, but adult Nobita has fled his own wedding.
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Barbie Video Game Hero (2017)
★ 6.8/10Also animationWhen Barbie is accidentally pulled into her favourite game, she teams up with the roller skater Bella and her friend Cutie, to stop a mischievous emoji who is trying to take control of the game.
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Stand by Me Doraemon (2014)
★ 7.5/10Also animationSewashi and Doraemon find themselves way back in time and meet Nobita. It is up to Doraemon to take care of Nobita or else he will not return to the present.
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Ranma 1/2 the Movie 2: Nihao My Concubine (1992)
★ 7.9/10Also animationWith the Tendos, the Saotomes, Ryoga, Shampoo and Ukyo misinterpreting Tatewake Kuno's invitation to his two loves, Akane and 'The Pig Tailed Girl', to try his new yacht, a whole new episode of chaos begins in the…
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Sailor Moon SuperS: The Movie - Black Dream Hole (1995)
★ 7.9/10Also animationThe wicked Badiyanu has come to capture all Earth's children to gain enough power to absorb the planet in her Black Dream Hole. The Black Dream Hole is in Badiyanu's castle and absorbs the dream energy from children…
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Detective Conan: The Disappearance of Conan Edogawa - The Worst Two Days in History (2015)
★ 7.1/10Also animationConan Edogawa comes to a bathhouse with Ran Mouri and Ai Haibara. There, he sees suspicious men in the dressing room of the men's bath. However, Conan falls down in the bathhouse and loses consciousness. The two…
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Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew (2005)
★ 7/10Also animationIn the legendary past, before Poké Balls were invented, an aura-guiding hero Pokémon named Lucario sensed two groups of armies about to clash, and a threat of a massive war in front of Oldoran Castle in Kanto that…
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Persona3 THE MOVIE #1 Spring of Birth (2013)
★ 7.2/10Also animationIn the spring, male student Makoto Yuki transfers to Gekkoukan High School. However, as he heads to his new dormitory, listening to the music on his headphones, he is stopped. More precisely, time has stopped, and the…
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Napping Princess (2017)
★ 6.7/10Also animationJapan, 2020, a few days before the opening of the Tokyo Olympics. Although she should be studying for her final exams, Kokone, a schoolgirl who lives in a small town with her widowed father, a mysterious and talented…
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Doraemon: Nobita's Secret Gadget Museum (2013)
★ 6.6/10Also animationDoraemon and his friends travel to the 22nd century to look for his golden bell, which was stolen by a notorious thief called Kaito DX.
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Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet (2021)
★ 6.5/10Also animationAt the opening ceremony of the WSG (World Sports Games) Tokyo Games, a sports festival held once every four years, it is announced that the world's first vacuum superconducting maglev with a maximum speed of 1,000…
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The Castle of Cagliostro (1979)
★ 7.5/10Also animationAfter a successful robbery leaves famed thief Lupin the Third and his partner Jigen with nothing but a large amount of expertly crafted counterfeit bills, he decides to track down the forgers responsible—and steal any…
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Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea (2006)
★ 6.5/10Also animationOn their way through the Battle Frontier, Ash and friends meet up with a Pokémon Ranger who's mission is to deliever the egg of Manaphy to a temple on the ocean's floor. However, a greedy pirate wants the power of…
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Yo-kai Watch: The Movie (2014)
★ 7.7/10Also animationWhen the evil Yo-Kai Kin, Gin and Bronzlow makes the Yo-Kai Watch disappear from time so they can help Dame Dedtime prevent humans and Yo-Kai from being friends, Nate Adams finds help in the Yo-Kai Hovernyan, who takes…
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Animal Crossing: The Movie (2006)
★ 6.8/10Also animationAi, a self-reliant girl who moves to Animal Village and works at Nook's Cranny, gradually becomes part of the community with guidance from its residents and embarks on a quest to plant pine trees for a Winter Festival…
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Bleach the Movie: Fade to Black (2008)
★ 7.1/10Also animationA strange disturbance in the World of the Living sends Ichigo and Kon to the Soul Society, where the Seireitei has been devastated by an explosion of reishi and Rukia is missing. Stranger still, none of the Soul…
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Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur (1980)
★ 6.8/10Also animationWhen Suneo does not show Nobita the fossil of a dinosaur claw, he takes up a challenge to find a dinosaur. He digs up a hillside and finds an egg, which later hatches and becomes a dinosaur.