If you loved Love Hotel, try Sailor Suit and Machine Gun

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 Shinji Sōmai, and they both carry the neon soaked mood tag, and they sit in Drama / Romance territory. If that's the register that drew you to Love Hotel, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Sailor Suit and Machine Gun is

Teen schoolgirls rarely inherit crime syndicates, but here one does. A yakuza clan replaces a fallen patriarch with an unlikely heir. The film remembered to give her a sailor suit and a machine gun.

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