If you loved Cat Girl Kiki, try Pretty Maid Café
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 Akiyoshi Sugiura, and they both carry the tender mood tag, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Cat Girl Kiki, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Pretty Maid Café is
Here's a film that knows its audience. When a friend brings the down-on-his-luck Hideki to a maid café, he promptly falls for Misaki, his waitress. He then asks her out to go fishing, in a move that could only happen in this particular milieu.
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