If you loved The Sea Is Watching, try The Long Darkness
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 Kei Kumai, and they both carry the bittersweet, tender mood tags, and they sit in Drama / Romance territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Sea Is Watching, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What The Long Darkness is
Here's a film that wants to put its characters through it. Burdened by their respective family woes, Tetsuro and Shino decide to marry. Love, they hope, will overcome emotional and social hardships. It may be bleak, but at least it's decisive.
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