If you loved Foreboding, try Barren Illusion

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 Kiyoshi Kurosawa, and they sit in Science Fiction territory. If that's the register that drew you to Foreboding, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What Barren Illusion is

Somehow a nostalgic virus still feels futuristic. Haru, a music producer with time on his hands, meets Michi, a postal worker with a sideline in sticky-fingered ambition their relationship mirrors their stalled lives. A speculative pill promised as salvation just thins the plot further.

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