If you loved Ningen Shikkaku: Director's Cut-ban, try Yawara! Atlanta Special

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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Ningen Shikkaku: Director's Cut-ban

2009 · dir. Morio Asaka

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Yawara! Atlanta Special

1996 · dir. Morio Asaka

What they share

Both films are directed by Morio Asaka, and they sit in Animation / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Ningen Shikkaku: Director's Cut-ban, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What Yawara! Atlanta Special is

Here goes another Olympic romp. Yawara Inokuma represents Japan in the Atlanta Games. It's a familiar tournament faceoff.

If you loved Ningen Shikkaku: Director's Cut-ban, try Yawara! Atlanta Special

Ningen Shikkaku: Director's Cut-ban

Yawara! Atlanta Special

What they share

What Yawara! Atlanta Special is

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