If you loved Jack and the Beanstalk, try The Life of Budori Gusuko

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 Gisaburō Sugii, and they sit in Animation / Fantasy territory. If that's the register that drew you to Jack and the Beanstalk, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What The Life of Budori Gusuko is

Gusukō meets a grumpy professor. The orphaned meteorologist flees Japan’s dust-bowl 1920s only to join a tiny team trying to restart the rain by detonating a volcano. A measured fable about aimless youth and stubborn science.

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