If you loved Like Grains of Sand, try A Touch of Fever
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 Ryosuke Hashiguchi, and they both carry the bittersweet, tender mood tags, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Like Grains of Sand, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What A Touch of Fever is
Here's a film that believes in the radical concept of "office romance." Two men working at a small company in Tokyo begin a physical relationship. The question of whether it can become something more lingers, like cigarette smoke in a poorly ventilated room.
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