If you loved A Wanderer's Notebook, try Flowing
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Both films are directed by Mikio Naruse, and they both carry the bittersweet, tender mood tags, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to A Wanderer's Notebook, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Flowing is
All About Eve without champagne. A widowed geisha proprietor struggles to keep her business afloat in postwar Tokyo. Naruse's camera observes the quotidian realities of women in a changing world.
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