If you loved Pretty Maid Café, try Cruel Story of Youth
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
Theysit in Drama / Romance territory. If that's the register that drew you to Pretty Maid Café, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What Cruel Story of Youth is
Oshima's early film seeks to shock, and mostly succeeds. A young couple drifts into petty crime and nihilism in 1950s Japan. It got people talking, at least.
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