If you loved I Wish, try Like Father, Like Son

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I Wish

2011 · dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda

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Both films are directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda, and they both carry the bittersweet, foreign gem, tender mood tags, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to I Wish, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Like Father, Like Son is

Kramer vs. Kramer if the switch happened at the hospital. A well-off Tokyo couple must decide whether to exchange the six-year-old son they've raised for their biological child. Kore-eda quietly observes the stresses on both families.

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