If you loved Pleasures of the Flesh, try A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth

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Pleasures of the Flesh

1965 · dir. Nagisa Ōshima

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A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth

2006 · dir. Tetsu Maeda

What they share

Theysit in Comedy / Crime / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Pleasures of the Flesh, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth is

Here's a film that's trying to be the Ocean's 11 of Japan, but with more quirk. A quartet of oddballs stumbles into bank robbery, then decides to keep at it as a lark. What starts as a lark gets complicated by old grudges.

If you loved Pleasures of the Flesh, try A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth

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