If you loved Restaurant from the Sky, try Love Like the Falling Petals

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

Both films are directed by Yoshihiro Fukagawa, and they both carry the bittersweet, tender mood tags, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Restaurant from the Sky, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Love Like the Falling Petals is

Here's a film that asks: what if one half of a cute couple aged at ten times the normal rate? A photographer, re-inspired by his hairdresser girlfriend, watches her rapidly age due to a rare disease. This one goes hard on the melodrama.

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