If you loved The Temptation of Kimono, try Tokyo Train Girls: Private Lessons

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 Tadashi Kyouya, and they both carry the tender mood tag, and they sit in Drama / Romance territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Temptation of Kimono, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Tokyo Train Girls: Private Lessons is

Here's a film that understands the gig economy before it was cool. A teacher moonlighting as a cam girl panics when a student recognizes her online. It does what it sets out to do, which is be a movie.

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