If you loved Saru Lock: The Movie, try A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth
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 Tetsu Maeda, and they both carry the playful mood tag, and they sit in Comedy / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Saru Lock: The Movie, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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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.
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