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Movies Like Hot Gimmick: Girl Meets Boy

If you liked Hot Gimmick: Girl Meets Boy (2019), a drama and romance movie directed by Yuki Yamato, 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.

  1. 1After

    After (2019)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama and romance

    Tessa Young is a dedicated student, dutiful daughter and loyal girlfriend to her high school sweetheart. Entering her first semester of college, Tessa's guarded world opens up when she meets Hardin Scott, a mysterious…

  2. 2Monster

    Monster (2023)

    ★ 7.9/10Also drama

    After an outburst at school involving her son, a concerned single mother demands answers, triggering a sequence of deepening suspicion and turmoil.

  3. 3Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Movie

    Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Movie (1999)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama and romance

    In a loose retelling of the Revolutionary Girl Utena TV series, Utena Tenjou arrives at Ohtori Academy, only to be immediately swept up in a series of duels for the hand of her classmate Anthy Himemiya and the power…

  4. 4Sky of Love

    Sky of Love (2007)

    ★ 7.7/10Also romance and drama

    Mika is a fresh high school student who starts texting a mysterious boy. She is shocked when he reveals who he is - Hiro, a delinquent attending her school. What she doesn't know is that Hiro isn't as bad as he seems.

  5. 5GO

    GO (2001)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama and romance

    Sugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean teenager struggles to find a place in a society that will not accept him.

  6. 6Endless Love

    Endless Love (2014)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama and romance

    A privileged girl and a charismatic boy's instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart.

  7. 7All About Lily Chou-Chou

    All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama

    Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their relationship against the backdrop of Yūichi's love for the dreamy and abstract…

  8. 8Close Range Love

    Close Range Love (2014)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama and romance

    A smart high school student falls in love with her English teacher after she receives one-on-one tutoring from him.

  9. 9Giant Little Ones

    Giant Little Ones (2019)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    Two popular teen boys, best friends since childhood, discover their lives, families, and girlfriends dramatically upended after an unexpected incident occurs on the night of a 17th birthday party.

  10. 10Kids Return

    Kids Return (1996)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time boxer, while Masaru joins up with a local yakuza gang. However, the world…

  11. 11Psychic School Wars

    Psychic School Wars (2012)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama and romance

    It's a new school year at the local Junior High School i Kamakura. The school year starts off with a new transfer student Ryoichi Kyogoku who joins the 8th grade class. He has been ordered to join the school, and use…

  12. 12The Stranger by the Shore

    The Stranger by the Shore (2020)

    ★ 7.9/10Also romance and drama

    Abandoned after coming out, Shun befriends Mio just before he has to move. Years later, Mio returns with a confession. How will Shun feel?

  13. 13Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Kid

    Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Kid (2023)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama

    Finally, the day of Mai's high school graduation has arrived. While Sakuta eagerly waits for his girlfriend, an elementary schooler who looks exactly like her appears before him. Suspicious, and for all the wrong…

  14. 14Clannad: The Motion Picture

    Clannad: The Motion Picture (2007)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama and romance

    Plagued by a seemingly endless stream of haunting dreams, Tomoya drifts through life with an almost overwhelming sense of anger and emptiness. Then, one fateful day, he meets the mysterious and beautiful Nagisa, and…

  15. 15Kase-san and Morning Glories

    Kase-san and Morning Glories (2018)

    ★ 7.2/10Also romance

    Yamada may be shy and rather clumsy, but the flower gardens at her school have always brought her happiness. Suddenly, a different sort of beauty catches her eye—the vivacious track star, Kase-san. Although the two…

  16. 16The Best of Me

    The Best of Me (2014)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama and romance

    A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.

  17. 17Memoirs of a Geisha

    Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama and romance

    In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

  18. 18Pretty in Pink

    Pretty in Pink (1986)

    ★ 6.7/10Also romance and drama

    Andie is an outcast, hanging out either with her older boss, who owns the record store where she works, or her quirky high school classmate Duckie, who has a crush on her. When one of the rich and popular kids at…

  19. 19My Broken Mariko

    My Broken Mariko (2022)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    Shiino one day finds out that her best friend Mariko has committed suicide. After snatching Mariko's urn from her abusive father, Shiino heads to Marigaoka Cape, a place Mariko always wanted to go.

  20. 20The Art of Getting By

    The Art of Getting By (2011)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and romance

    George, a lonely and fatalistic teen who's made it all the way to his senior year without ever having done a real day of work, is befriended by Sally, a popular but complicated girl who recognizes in him a kindred…

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