If you loved This Transient Life, try Poem
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 Akio Jissoji, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to This Transient Life, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What Poem is
Barry Lyndon without costumes. A young man devoted to tradition observes a noble family's decline. Jissoji's formalism and the superb lead performance combine into a potent study of repressed longing.

