If you loved Rhapsody in August, try The Lower Depths
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 Akira Kurosawa, and they both carry the slow burn mood tag, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Rhapsody in August, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
slow burn
What The Lower Depths is
Crime Story meets 19th-century melodrama. Residents of a rundown boardinghouse get drawn into a love triangle. It delivers a violent reckoning.

