If you loved Dolls, try A Scene at the Sea

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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Dolls

2002 · dir. Takeshi Kitano

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Both films are directed by Takeshi Kitano, and they sit in Drama / Romance territory. If that's the register that drew you to Dolls, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What A Scene at the Sea is

Takeshi Kitano directs, but also this is a romance? A young deaf man finds a surfboard and decides he will surf. His equally deaf girlfriend supports him. It's a very quiet film, one might say.

If you loved Dolls, try A Scene at the Sea

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