If you loved Birthday Boy, try Kill!
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
Theyboth carry the cozy, foreign gem mood tags. If that's the register that drew you to Birthday Boy, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Kill! is
Okamoto appears to be having a little fun with chanbara tropes here. Two swordsmen, each with something to prove, find themselves on opposite sides of a clan dispute. Naturally, honor wins out, and they join forces with rebels holed up in a mountain cabin. It is what it is.
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