If you loved Tokyo Pop, try The Moon Has Risen

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.

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Tokyo Pop

1988 · dir. Fran Rubel Kuzui

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The Moon Has Risen

1955 · dir. Kinuyo Tanaka

What they share

Theysit in Comedy / Romance territory. If that's the register that drew you to Tokyo Pop, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What The Moon Has Risen is

Here's a film that juggles melancholy with a lightness of touch. Three sisters living with their widowed father find themselves entangled in the thorny complexities of love. The film perhaps aimed for profundity, but mostly just delivers gentle charm.

If you loved Tokyo Pop, try The Moon Has Risen

Tokyo Pop

The Moon Has Risen

What they share

What The Moon Has Risen is

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