If you loved A Flame at the Pier, try Pale Flower
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by Masahiro Shinoda, and they both carry the outsider, slow burn mood tags. If that's the register that drew you to A Flame at the Pier, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Pale Flower is
Shinoda's film seems to ask: what if film noir, but make it *Japanese*? Muraki, a yakuza newly released from prison, becomes entangled with a mysterious young woman, Saeko, who draws him into a dangerous world of gambling and violence. It's a stylish but affectless study in postwar anomie.
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