If you loved Irezumi, try Afternoon Breezes

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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Irezumi

1982 · dir. Yoichi Takabayashi

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Afternoon Breezes

1980 · dir. Hitoshi Yazaki

What they share

Theysit in Drama / Romance territory. If that's the register that drew you to Irezumi, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What Afternoon Breezes is

Here's a film that knows its way around a love triangle. Two young women share an apartment and one is secretly in love with the other, who has a boyfriend. She schemes to seduce him. It is a very small story, well told.

If you loved Irezumi, try Afternoon Breezes

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What they share

What Afternoon Breezes is

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