If you loved Touch, try Josee, the Tiger and the Fish
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 Isshin Inudo, and they both carry the bittersweet, outsider, tender mood tags, and they sit in Drama / Romance territory. If that's the register that drew you to Touch, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What Josee, the Tiger and the Fish is
Here's a film that knows its way around an unlikely meet-cute. Tsuneo, a marine biology student, finds himself begrudgingly caring for Josee, a disabled young woman with a sharp tongue. The two forge a bond, navigating independence, intimacy, and their own limitations. It's a romance that is, at least, fairly direct about its intentions.

