If you loved The Living Magoroku, try El adiós de un hijo
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 Keisuke Kinoshita, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Living Magoroku, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What El adiós de un hijo is
You stand conscripted by bloodline into a war that wars against your own body. Then the orders arrive. A military pedigree demands your bones even before your health allows it. The film observes how a nation’s oldest duty becomes a private agony laid bare on screen.

