If you loved You Are My Sunshine, try Closer to Heaven

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Closer to Heaven has roughly 3.6× fewer votes than You Are My Sunshine — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. 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 Park Jin-pyo, and they both carry the bittersweet, tender mood tags, and they sit in Drama / Romance territory. If that's the register that drew you to You Are My Sunshine, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Closer to Heaven is

Love blossoms in unexpected places, it seems. A funeral director meets a man with Lou Gehrig's disease. It achieves a quiet intimacy, somehow.

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