If you loved With Beauty and Sorrow, try MacArthur's Children
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Both films are directed by Masahiro Shinoda, and they both carry the bittersweet, outsider, tender mood tags, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to With Beauty and Sorrow, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What MacArthur's Children is
The Japanese do the "wait, now what?" shuffle as WWII ends. Everyone in a coastal village suddenly hosts American occupiers. Fun times are not had.
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