If you loved Affair in the Snow, try Akitsu Hot Springs
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 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 Affair in the Snow, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Akitsu Hot Springs 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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