If you loved Kichiku, try My Man
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Both films are directed by Kazuyoshi Kumakiri, and they both carry the dread mood tag, and they sit in Crime / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Kichiku, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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Here's a film that really earns its melodrama tag. Hana loses her family in a tsunami and is then raised by a man to whom she may or may not be related. Suffice to say, things get weird.
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