If you loved La muerte del maestro de la casa de té, try El mar que nos mira
Un puente entre una película que ya has visto y una que casi nadie ha cruzado. Esto es lo que comparten, y lo que la segunda hace que la primera no hace.
Lo que comparten
Both films are directed by Kei Kumai, and they both carry the bittersweet, slow burn mood tags, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to La muerte del maestro de la casa de té, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What El mar que nos mira is
Here's a film that apparently wants to be both a romance and a drama, and it succeeds at being neither. A brothel worker called O-Shin falls for a fugitive samurai she helps hide. It's the sort of film where you just know somebody will be staring forlornly out to sea at the end.
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