If you loved In the Wake, try My Friend "A"

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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Both films are directed by Takahisa Zeze, and they both carry the bittersweet, slow burn mood tags, and they sit in Drama / Thriller territory. If that's the register that drew you to In the Wake, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What My Friend "A" is

Spring. A cramped newsroom’s hum, fluorescent and tired. Masuda tapes a mini-recorder beneath his desk. Suzuki’s smile too polished, his jokes too sharp—something notched wrong. A horror-trope in neon—nineteen-nineties pink and teal.

If you loved In the Wake, try My Friend "A"

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What My Friend "A" is

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If you loved In the Wake, try My Friend "A"

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