If you loved Phone Call to the Bar, try Detective in the Bar

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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Phone Call to the Bar

2011 · dir. Hajime Hashimoto

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Both films are directed by Hajime Hashimoto, and they both carry the foreign gem, neon soaked, raw mood tags, and they sit in Action / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Phone Call to the Bar, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Detective in the Bar is

Three decades of jazz standards couldn’t mute the truth forever. After a friend’s unsolved murder throws a whiskey-sour light on city hall backroom deals, a shamus finds an old flame leading him to the same neon-soaked trail. Someone finally booked that reservation at the bottom of the river.

If you loved Phone Call to the Bar, try Detective in the Bar

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What Detective in the Bar is

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What they share

What Detective in the Bar is

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