If you loved Coup d'Etat, try Akitsu Hot Springs

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 sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Coup d'Etat, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What Akitsu Hot Springs is

Yoshida here asks: what if we made a melodrama about doomed lovers, but really, really Japanese? A woman running a hot springs inn begins an affair with a sickly man, with tragic results. It got exactly as maudlin as you feared it might.

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