If you loved When Morning Comes, I Feel Empty, try Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two

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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When Morning Comes, I Feel Empty

2023 · dir. Yuho Ishibashi

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Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two

1945 · dir. Akira Kurosawa

What they share

Theyboth carry the outsider, tender mood tags, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to When Morning Comes, I Feel Empty, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two is

You study the way shadows move at twilight when Sanshiro trains with an American boxer in a rain slick dojo and the punch lands lighter than expected. Then two brothers arrive from Okinawa and the air shifts. Kurosawa watches how a man’s grip loosens from rage to understanding.

If you loved When Morning Comes, I Feel Empty, try Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two

When Morning Comes, I Feel Empty

Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two

What they share

What Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two is

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