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.

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.

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