If you loved Historias de una Geisha dorada, try El regreso de la inspectora
Un puente entre una película que ya has visto y una que casi nadie ha cruzado. Esto es lo que comparten, y lo que la segunda hace que la primera no hace.
Lo que comparten
Both films are directed by Jūzō Itami, and they sit in Comedy / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Historias de una Geisha dorada, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What El regreso de la inspectora is
Shinjuku at dusk—coffee steams over tax ledgers open on a corner desk. Ryōko Itakura tracks laundered yen into a cult’s temple gardens; gold beneath the soil, hymns over ledgers. Like The Trial meets It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad World under neon suns.

