If you loved Always: Sunset on Third Street 2, try Always: Sunset on Third Street '64
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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What they share
Both films are directed by Takashi Yamazaki, and they sit in Comedy / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Always: Sunset on Third Street 2, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What Always: Sunset on Third Street '64 is
A nostalgic exercise in Showa-era Japan, all but daring the audience not to feel something. Ryonosuke worries about providing for his growing family as a rival threatens his writing gig. Sentimental and calculated in equal measure.