If you loved Cafe Funiculi Funicula, try My Happy Marriage
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 Ayuko Tsukahara, and they both carry the bittersweet, tender mood tags, and they sit in Drama / Fantasy territory. If that's the register that drew you to Cafe Funiculi Funicula, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What My Happy Marriage is
Here's a film that asks: can arranged marriage be a meet-cute? Miyo is forced to marry Kiyoka, a heartless military man with a reputation for scaring off fiancéEs. Maybe love can bloom on the battlefield, or at least in a very nice house.

