If you loved Coo of the Far Seas, try Twelve Months

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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Coo of the Far Seas

1993 · dir. Tetsuo Imazawa

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Twelve Months

1980 · dir. Kimio Yabuki, Yugo Serikawa, Tetsuo Imazawa

What they share

Both films are directed by Tetsuo Imazawa, and they both carry the cozy, tender mood tags, and they sit in Adventure / Animation territory. If that's the register that drew you to Coo of the Far Seas, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Twelve Months is

A royal bouquet request becomes a stepdaughter’s impossible errand, turned surreal by calendar spirits. She trades frostbite for winter defiance when spring blooms on command. The reward promptly causes more trouble than it’s worth.

If you loved Coo of the Far Seas, try Twelve Months

Coo of the Far Seas

Twelve Months

What they share

What Twelve Months is

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