If you loved Buddha: The Great Departure, try Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window
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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Buddha: The Great Departure
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Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window
What they share
Theyboth carry the bittersweet, foreign gem, tender mood tags, and they sit in Animation / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Buddha: The Great Departure, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
bittersweetforeign gemtender
What Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window is
A film that clearly thinks kids are people. Expelled from public school, young Totto-chan finds a home at an alternative academy run by a benevolent, if eccentric, headmaster. Its gentle lessons perhaps work best on the very young.
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