If you loved Natsume's Book of Friends: The Waking Rock and the Strange Visitor, try Natsume's Book of Friends the Movie: Ephemeral Bond
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.
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What they share
Both films are directed by Hideki Ito, and they both carry the tender mood tag, and they sit in Animation / Drama / Fantasy territory. If that's the register that drew you to Natsume's Book of Friends: The Waking Rock and the Strange Visitor, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Natsume's Book of Friends the Movie: Ephemeral Bond is
Spirited Away meets My Neighbor Totoro. Natsume reunites with an old classmate and meets a woman connected to a Yokai. It delivers gentle fantasy.
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