If you loved Cruel Story of Youth, try The Catch
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. The Catch has roughly 5.2× fewer votes than Cruel Story of Youth — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. 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 Nagisa Ōshima, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Cruel Story of Youth, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What The Catch is
You live in a remote Japanese village late in the Second World War. You capture an African-American pilot, a downed enemy. But Tokyo's orders never arrive. Oshima's early film questions wartime xenophobia.
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