Films like The Garden of Words (2013)

The Garden of Words (2013) is animation, drama, romance. These 24 films share its genres, ordered by how much overlap they have and how well they are rated.

← Back to The Garden of Words

• 

  Your Name. (2016)

  Also animation and drama. 8.5/10

  High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body, and he in hers. This…

• 

  A Silent Voice: The Movie (2016)

  Also animation and drama. 8.4/10

  Shouya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class, Shouko Nishimiya, because she is deaf. But as the teasing continues, the rest of the class starts to turn on Shouya for his…

• 

  The Lion King II: Simba's Pride (1998)

  Also animation and drama. 6.9/10

  The circle of life continues for Simba, now fully grown and in his rightful place as the king of Pride Rock. Simba and Nala have given birth to a daughter, Kiara who's as…

• 

  Weathering with You (2019)

  Also animation and drama. 8.0/10

  The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The…

• 

  The Wind Rises (2013)

  Also animation and drama. 7.8/10

  A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II fighter plane.

• 

  Violet Evergarden: The Movie (2020)

  Also animation and drama. 8.3/10

  As the world moves on from the war and technological advances bring changes to her life, Violet still hopes to see her lost commanding officer again.

• 

  The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes (2022)

  Also animation and drama. 7.7/10

  Urashima Tunnel – Once you enter that tunnel, you can get whatever you want, but at a price. Kaoru Tohno, who seems to have an elusive personality and traumatic past, and Anzu…

• 

  I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (2018)

  Also animation and drama. 8.2/10

  After his classmate and crush is diagnosed with a pancreatic disease, an average high schooler sets out to make the most of her final days.

• 

  Mind Game (2004)

  Also animation and drama. 7.5/10

  Nishi is a loser who has a crush on his childhood girlfriend. After an encounter with the Japanese mafia, he journeys to heaven and back, and ends up trapped in an even more…

• 

  A Whisker Away (2020)

  Also animation and drama. 7.9/10

  A peculiar girl transforms into a cat to catch her crush's attention. But before she realizes it, the line between human and animal starts to blur.

• 

  Only Yesterday (1991)

  Also animation and drama. 7.4/10

  In lyrical switches between the present and the past, Taeko contemplates the arc of her life, and wonders if she has been true to the dreams of her childhood self.

• 

  5 Centimeters per Second (2007)

  Also animation and drama. 7.3/10

  Three moments in Takaki's life: his relationship with Akari and their forced separation; his friendship with Kanae, who is secretly in love with him; the demands and…

• 

  The Rose of Versailles (2025)

  Also animation and drama. 7.0/10

  In an age of revolution, Marie Antoinette and her protector Oscar François de Jarjayes face tough choices as women growing into their distinct roles.

• 

  Ocean Waves (1993)

  Also animation and drama. 6.4/10

  At Kichijōji Station, Tokyo, Taku Morisaki glimpses a familiar woman on the platform opposite boarding a train. Later, her photo falls from a shelf as he exits his apartment…

• 

  Quest for Camelot (1998)

  Also animation and drama. 6.8/10

  During the times of King Arthur, Kayley is a brave girl who dreams of following her late father as a Knight of the Round Table. The evil Ruber wants to invade Camelot and take the…

• 

  Anomalisa (2015)

  Also animation and drama. 7.1/10

  An inspirational speaker becomes reinvigorated after meeting a lively woman who shakes up his mundane existence.

• 

  Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel I. Presage Flower (2017)

  Also animation and drama. 7.4/10

  Ten years after the Fourth Holy Grail War, a devastating clash between Masters and Servants, another war erupts. Shirou Emiya, whose father fought in the first battle, was leading…

• 

  Josee, the Tiger and the Fish (2020)

  Also animation and drama. 8.3/10

  With dreams of diving abroad, Tsuneo gets a job assisting Josee, an artist whose imagination takes her far beyond her wheelchair. But when the tide turns against them, they push…

• 

  Millennium Actress (2002)

  Also animation and drama. 7.9/10

  Documentary filmmaker Genya Tachibana has tracked down the legendary actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who mysteriously vanished at the height of her career. When he presents her with a…

• 

  Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel III. Spring Song (2020)

  Also animation and drama. 7.7/10

  The battle rages on as Shirou continues to protect Sakura, now consumed by the darkness. He joins forces with Rin to end the Holy Grail War, while Illyasviel, who knows the truth…

• 

  Hello World (2019)

  Also animation and drama. 7.3/10

  A 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.

• 

  Lost in Starlight (2025)

  Also animation and drama. 7.4/10

  When an astronaut leaves Earth for Mars, the vast infinite space divides star-crossed lovers in this animated romance that crosses the cosmos.

• 

  No Game No Life: Zero (2017)

  Also animation and drama. 7.8/10

  Six thousand years before Sora and Shiro were even a blink in the history of Disboard, war consumed the land, tearing apart the heavens, destroying stars, and even threatening to…

• 

  Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel II. Lost Butterfly (2019)

  Also animation and drama. 7.1/10

  Shirou has lost his Servant, Saber, and is no longer a Master in the Holy Grail War. Despite this, he refuses to leave the battle, determined to protect Sakura. Meanwhile, a…