If you loved Lightning, try Every-Night Dreams
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Both films are directed by Mikio Naruse, and they both carry the bittersweet, foreign gem, outsider, tender mood tags, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Lightning, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Every-Night Dreams is
Falling Stars meets Tokyo in the 1930s. A night-shift bar hostess raises her boy alone until her estranged husband reappears, demanding a second chance. The family’s fragile house of cards holds until payday.
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