If you loved Alone Across the Pacific, try Conflagration

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.

You already loved

Both films are directed by Kon Ichikawa, and they both carry the bittersweet, outsider, slow burn mood tags. If that's the register that drew you to Alone Across the Pacific, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

bittersweetoutsiderslow burn

What Conflagration is

Rebel Without a Cause meets The Idiot. A young monk struggles with his family's downfall at a temple. It delivers a haunting portrait of 50s Japan.

If you loved Alone Across the Pacific, try Conflagration

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If you loved Alone Across the Pacific, try Conflagration

Alone Across the Pacific

Conflagration

What they share

What Conflagration is

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