If you loved Love Letter, try Village of Dreams

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 Yōichi Higashi, and they both carry the slow burn, tender mood tags, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Love Letter, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Village of Dreams is

In 1940s rural Japan, two nine-year-old twins navigate childhood between postwar dust and village whispers. Their bond is tested by a stern schoolteacher mother, a bureaucrat father, a nosy landlord, a bully classmate, and three spectral octogenarians. The spirits seem less supernatural than the adults.

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