If you loved Without Memory, try Like Father, Like Son

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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Without Memory

1996 · dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda

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Like Father, Like Son

2013 · dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda

What they share

Both films are directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda. If that's the register that drew you to Without Memory, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What Like Father, Like Son is

Kramer vs. Kramer if the switch happened at the hospital. A well-off Tokyo couple must decide whether to exchange the six-year-old son they've raised for their biological child. Kore-eda quietly observes the stresses on both families.

If you loved Without Memory, try Like Father, Like Son

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What they share

What Like Father, Like Son is

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