If you loved Love Hotel, try Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
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Both films are directed by Shinji Sōmai, and they both carry the neon soaked mood tag, and they sit in Drama / Romance territory. If that's the register that drew you to Love Hotel, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Sailor Suit and Machine Gun is
Teen schoolgirls rarely inherit crime syndicates, but here one does. A yakuza clan replaces a fallen patriarch with an unlikely heir. The film remembered to give her a sailor suit and a machine gun.
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