If you loved Fire Festival, try God Speed You! Black Emperor

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 Mitsuo Yanagimachi, and they both carry the outsider mood tag. If that's the register that drew you to Fire Festival, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What God Speed You! Black Emperor is

Speed meets Kinji Fukasaku if biker docs ran on filial piety. A troubled Bōsōzoku teen faces his parents after a police clash. A snapshot of 1970s Japan seen through leather and laundry.

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