If you loved A Touch of Fever, try Like Grains of Sand

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 Ryosuke Hashiguchi, and they both carry the bittersweet, tender mood tags, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to A Touch of Fever, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Like Grains of Sand is

Rebel Without a Cause meets My Summer of Love. Shuji falls for his friend Hiroyuki. A tender portrayal of adolescent longing.

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