If you loved Kabei: Our Mother, try Where Spring Comes Late

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Both films are directed by Yoji Yamada, 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 Kabei: Our Mother, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Where Spring Comes Late is

A 1970s Japanese miner loses his job and uproots his family to Hokkaido starting over as farmers. Yoji Yamada crafts a quiet domestic reinvention tale. The family’s slow bloom becomes the heart of the season.

If you loved Kabei: Our Mother, try Where Spring Comes Late

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Where Spring Comes Late

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What Where Spring Comes Late is

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If you loved Kabei: Our Mother, try Where Spring Comes Late

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What they share

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