If you loved Karaoke Terror, try Heaven's Bookstore
Eine Brücke zwischen einem Film, den du schon gesehen hast, und einem, den kaum jemand kennt. Das teilen sie, und was der zweite macht, was der erste nicht macht.
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Both films are directed by Tetsuo Shinohara, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Karaoke Terror, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What Heaven's Bookstore is
Here's a film that posits the afterlife might be a branch library. Kenta, a newly unemployed pianist, accepts a mysterious job offer from a man in a Hawaiian shirt and finds himself in a very quiet bookstore. That this actually sounds like a good job is perhaps the point.
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