If you loved Twittering Birds Never Fly: The Clouds Gather, try Twittering Birds Never Fly: Don't Stay Gold
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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What they share
Both films are directed by Kaori Makita, and they both carry the raw, tender mood tags, and they sit in Animation / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Twittering Birds Never Fly: The Clouds Gather, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Twittering Birds Never Fly: Don't Stay Gold is
Bad Romance meets The Wrestler. A former yakuza enforcer cares for a young sex worker. Carries a raw portrayal of toxic relationships.