If you loved The Japanese Belly Button, try Bumpkin Soup
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
Theysit in Comedy / Music territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Japanese Belly Button, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What Bumpkin Soup is
Here's an oddity, even for Kurosawa: a musical comedy. Akiko treks to a Tokyo college to find her boyfriend, but encounters a host of eccentrics instead. What follows is either a send-up or an unintentional example of early-80s campus zaniness.
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