If you loved Penance, try Tokyo Sonata
Un ponte tra un film che hai già visto e uno che quasi nessuno ha incrociato. Questo è ciò che condividono, e ciò che il secondo fa che il primo non fa.
Cosa condividono
Both films are directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, and they both carry the bittersweet, dread, foreign gem mood tags, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Penance, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Tokyo Sonata is
The বুঝি of Ozu without the gaiety. A father secretly loses his job but maintains the charade with his family. The strain exposes everyone's hidden desires and simmering resentments. A quietly devastating portrait of contemporary Japanese life.
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