If you loved The Long Darkness, 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 sit in Drama / Romance territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Long Darkness, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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.

