If you loved Coup d'État, try La source thermale d'Akitsu
Un pont entre un film que tu as déjà vu et un que peu de gens ont croisé. Voici ce qu'ils partagent, et ce que le second fait que le premier ne fait pas.
Ce qu'ils partagent
Both films are directed by Yoshishige Yoshida, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Coup d'État, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What La source thermale d'Akitsu is
Yoshida here asks: what if we made a melodrama about doomed lovers, but really, really Japanese? A woman running a hot springs inn begins an affair with a sickly man, with tragic results. It got exactly as maudlin as you feared it might.

