If you loved It Stopped Raining, try Mio on the Shore
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 Ryutaro Nakagawa, 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 It Stopped Raining, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Mio on the Shore is
Oslo, August 31st without ennui. A young woman leaves her family inn after her grandmother falls ill. She moves to Tokyo and takes a job at a bathhouse run by her father's friend. A quiet film about transitions, set against the march of modernization.
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