If you loved And Your Bird Can Sing, try All the Long Nights
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 Sho Miyake, and they both carry the bittersweet, tender mood tags, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to And Your Bird Can Sing, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What All the Long Nights is
Ozu if the protagonists sold junk. Two coworkers quietly contend with panic disorder and PMDD while trying to market planetarium toys. The gentleness of classic Japanese domestic cinema lives on.

