Asian Films Like Booksmart

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A Japanese-American girl disguises herself as a boy to enroll in an all-male athletic high school in Japan — the school of her idol high-jump champion — and discovers that hiding w…

Both navigate the same emotional territory: self discovery. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.

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A Japanese-American girl disguises herself as a boy to enroll in an all-male athletic high school in Japan — the school of her idol high-jump champion — and discovers that hiding w…

Both navigate the same emotional territory: self discovery. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.

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A girl bullied for her looks becomes a makeup goddess, hiding her bare face while navigating high school romance.

The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.

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Sawako Kuronuma is kind, earnest, and completely terrifying to her classmates — her resemblance to the ghost from Sadako and her habit of talking to herself in quiet corners has gi…

Both navigate the same emotional territory: growing up and belonging. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.

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She's been everyone's favorite for so long she's stopped noticing — until a man shows up who seems genuinely immune to her charm and deeply inconvenienced by her presence. A sharp,…

Both navigate the same emotional territory: self discovery and growing up. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.

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A woman caring for her ailing mother-in-law reconnects with a childhood best friend who is dying in hospital — and the film moves between the present and 1986, reconstructing the s…

Both navigate the same emotional territory: female friendship and growing up. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.

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A high school transfer student known for his emotional unavailability meets the only girl who doesn't seem interested in impressing him. Their relationship starts as irritation, sl…

Both navigate the same emotional territory: self discovery. Same warm energy throughout.

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Three women with completely different careers and personalities have one thing in common: they need a drink at the end of the day. Ahn So-hee is a fitness influencer keeping secret…

Both navigate the same emotional territory: female friendship and self discovery. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.

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Six friends navigate high school in Busan in 1997 — the height of the first K-pop idol wave — while a flash-forward wedding reveals that one of the men in the group married one of …

Both navigate the same emotional territory: growing up. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.

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University students from across Korea share a boarding house in Seoul during 1994, while a future-flashback teases which of the men the central female character eventually marries.…

Both navigate the same emotional territory: growing up. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.