If you loved The Affair, try La sorgente termale di Akitsu
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 Yoshishige Yoshida, 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 The Affair, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What La sorgente termale di 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.
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