If you loved Survival Family, try Wood Job!
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Both films are directed by Shinobu Yaguchi, and they both carry the bittersweet, foreign gem, tender mood tags, and they sit in Comedy / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Survival Family, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Wood Job! is
Apparently forestry is a viable backup plan. Yuki Hirano becomes a forestry trainee after failing university entrance exams. It's a tree-mendous career shift, somehow it works.
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