If you loved Fastening Days, try Fumiko's Confession

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 Hiroyasu Ishida, and they both carry the playful mood tag, and they sit in Animation territory. If that's the register that drew you to Fastening Days, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Fumiko's Confession is

Here's a film about the perils of young love, played for laughs. A heartbroken schoolgirl runs away from a romantic rejection, picking up speed as she barrels down a steep hill. It does, at least, make a virtue of cartoon physics.

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