If you loved Karaoke Terror, try Heaven's Bookstore

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 Tetsuo Shinohara, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Karaoke Terror, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What Heaven's Bookstore is

Here's a film that posits the afterlife might be a branch library. Kenta, a newly unemployed pianist, accepts a mysterious job offer from a man in a Hawaiian shirt and finds himself in a very quiet bookstore. That this actually sounds like a good job is perhaps the point.

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