If you loved Watari, the Ninja Boy, try Twelve Months

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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Watari, the Ninja Boy

1966 · dir. Sadao Funatoko

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Twelve Months

1980 · dir. Kimio Yabuki, Yugo Serikawa, Tetsuo Imazawa

What they share

Theysit in Adventure / Family / Fantasy territory. If that's the register that drew you to Watari, the Ninja Boy, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What Twelve Months is

A royal bouquet request becomes a stepdaughter’s impossible errand, turned surreal by calendar spirits. She trades frostbite for winter defiance when spring blooms on command. The reward promptly causes more trouble than it’s worth.

If you loved Watari, the Ninja Boy, try Twelve Months

Watari, the Ninja Boy

Twelve Months

What they share

What Twelve Months is

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