If you loved While the Women Are Sleeping, try Seventh Code

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.

You already loved

Seventh Code

2014 · dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa

What they share

Theysit in Drama / Mystery territory. If that's the register that drew you to While the Women Are Sleeping, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What Seventh Code is

Vladivostok November. Neon banners flap above alleys slick with rain. A taxi idles, door ajar. Akiko tracks Matsunaga through identical hotel corridors, then through a maze of dockside neon where he bolts again, warning foreign voices. She runs, stumbles into a backstreet brawl, wakes hours later in an abandoned warehouse. A Kurosawa winter noir disguised as a chase.

If you loved While the Women Are Sleeping, try Seventh Code

While the Women Are Sleeping

Seventh Code

What they share

What Seventh Code is

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