If you loved Survival Family, try Wood Job!
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 Shinobu Yaguchi, and they both carry the cozy, devastating, foreign gem mood tags, and they sit in Comedy / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Survival Family, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Wood Job! is
Apparently forestry is a viable backup plan. Yuki Hirano becomes a forestry trainee after failing university entrance exams. It's a tree-mendous career shift, somehow it works.
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