If you loved Yawara! Atlanta Special, try Ningen Shikkaku: Director's Cut-ban

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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Yawara! Atlanta Special

1996 · dir. Morio Asaka

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Ningen Shikkaku: Director's Cut-ban

2009 · dir. Morio Asaka

What they share

Both films are directed by Morio Asaka, and they sit in Animation / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Yawara! Atlanta Special, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What Ningen Shikkaku: Director's Cut-ban is

A Tokyo slum rat climbs a despair ladder. His act’s a cracked mirror. A narrator frames his unraveling with new cutaway beats.

If you loved Yawara! Atlanta Special, try Ningen Shikkaku: Director's Cut-ban

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