If you loved Winter Days, try Briar-Rose or the Sleeping Beauty

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 Kihachiro Kawamoto, and they both carry the cozy mood tag, and they sit in Animation territory. If that's the register that drew you to Winter Days, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Briar-Rose or the Sleeping Beauty is

Shadows in glass meets Arabian Nights. A princess finds her mother’s forgotten diary on her birthday then slips into a fairy-tale forest to meet a vanished young prince only her mother once loved. The encounter flashes like a match struck in the dark.

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