If you loved The Most Beautiful, try Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two

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 Akira Kurosawa, and they both carry the tender mood tag, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Most Beautiful, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two is

You study the way shadows move at twilight when Sanshiro trains with an American boxer in a rain slick dojo and the punch lands lighter than expected. Then two brothers arrive from Okinawa and the air shifts. Kurosawa watches how a man’s grip loosens from rage to understanding.

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