If you loved Bitter End of a Sweet Night, try A Story Written with Water
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 Yoshishige Yoshida, and they both carry the bittersweet mood tag, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Bitter End of a Sweet Night, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What A Story Written with Water is
*Jules et Jim* meets *Tokyo Story* if the affair is with a drowned mother. A man loses his balance between betrothal and filial grief, the water in his eyes never drying. The wife waits, the mother sleeps, and the camera holds nothing back.
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