If you loved Street of Love and Hope, try The Ceremony
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 Nagisa Ōshima, and they both carry the bittersweet, outsider mood tags, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Street of Love and Hope, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What The Ceremony is
Post-war Japan’s fractured nobility in one family’s funeral cycle. The last Sakurada son watches honor codes curdle into state violence while funeral rites decay into hollow theater. A youthful corpse holds every era’s secrets.

