If you loved Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: Diet, try By Rule of Crow's Thumb
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 Tadafumi Ito. If that's the register that drew you to Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: Diet, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What By Rule of Crow's Thumb is
Concrete jungle dusk. A briefcase clicks shut. Two deadbeats fold a revenge scheme—same old scam, new stakes. Then the girl at the curb: scarf in February wind, chain hanging from a lamppost. Ito’s satire stays just this side of cruel.
