If you loved Afro Tanaka, try Japanese Girls Never Die

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 Daigo Matsui, and they both carry the outsider mood tag, and they sit in Comedy / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Afro Tanaka, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Japanese Girls Never Die is

A gang of high school girls spends their nights handing out beatings to random men while a missing girl’s photo becomes a mural template. Their random violence leaves a town literally stamped with absence. The film could’ve used more than one idea.

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