If you loved I Will Buy You, try The Thick-Walled Room
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Both films are directed by Masaki Kobayashi, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to I Will Buy You, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What The Thick-Walled Room is
You wake to a concrete cell in a Japanese military prison post-WWII. Rank-and-file privates share the space, each a scapegoat for the war’s unspoken guilt. The walls mute their voices but not their fear. Post-war Japan refuses to look at them.
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