If you loved The Most Terrible Time in My Life, try The Trap

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 Kaizo Hayashi, and they both carry the neon soaked mood tag, and they sit in Crime / Drama / Thriller territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Most Terrible Time in My Life, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What The Trap is

Yokohama. Late autumn. A ringing telephone. Mike Hama, private investigator, receives a strange request from a hooded man. Soon, a string of bizarre murders perplexes the police and terrorizes the city. The hooded man seems to be connected. A stylish neo-noir, owing debts to Seijun Suzuki.

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