
Movies that feel likeThe Garden of Words (2013)
If you loved The Garden of Words, the closest films we have are 5 Centimeters per Second (2007), Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013) and Weathering with You (2019). All three share The Garden of Words' contemplative and romantic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is House of Hummingbird (2019).
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If The Garden of Words hit the spot, these will too

Makoto Shinkai directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The same two preoccupations: growing up, and high school student

The same hand behind both of them: Makoto Shinkai
The difference: Easier on the wistfulness than The Garden of Words

The same mix in both: stillness, then romance

One thread runs through both: growing up

Both land tenderness and wistfulness at once

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

Romance with a pulse of romance, in both cases

Tender animation in both cases

Drama built on wistfulness, twice over

Contemplative animation, and it commits to that
The difference: Takes it somewhere less tender than The Garden of Words does

Romance built on romance, twice over
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