If you loved Morning, try Kids Return

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 Takeshi Kitano, and they both carry the bittersweet, tender mood tags. If that's the register that drew you to Morning, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Kids Return is

You loaf in Matsumoto, pulling schoolyard shakedowns. But expulsion arrives, and life forks: boxing gym or gangland. Shinji jabs; Masaru menaces. Soon enough, though, their choices land differently. Kitano's camera finds a quiet beauty in the banality of their downbeat destinies. It lingers.

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