If you loved A Scene at the Sea, try Dolls

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.

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A Scene at the Sea

1991 · dir. Takeshi Kitano

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Both films are directed by Takeshi Kitano, and they both carry the foreign gem, slow burn mood tags, and they sit in Drama / Romance territory. If that's the register that drew you to A Scene at the Sea, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Dolls is

Takeshi Kitano turns his hand to doomed romance. Matsumoto jilts Sawako to appease his parents, a decision that precipitates tragedy for them both. The film offers a series of vignettes on love, each as brightly colored and artificial as a porcelain doll.

If you loved A Scene at the Sea, try Dolls

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Dolls

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What Dolls is

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If you loved A Scene at the Sea, try Dolls

A Scene at the Sea

Dolls

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What Dolls is

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