If you loved La Rivière Shinobu, try La mer regarde
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 Kei Kumai, and they both carry the bittersweet, tender mood tags, and they sit in Drama / Romance territory. If that's the register that drew you to La Rivière Shinobu, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What La mer regarde 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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