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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Iwai’s more bruised, lyrical companion piece shares the adolescent subjectivity, floating music-video imagery, and intimate attention to friendship, while moving into a far darker emotional register.
02
Why this pick
A patient, warmly observed school story about girls forming a band, with the same unforced humour, tender friendship dynamics, and affection for the small dramas of adolescence.
03
Why this pick
Its gentle rhythms, sunlit everyday details, and beautifully understated relationships offer a similarly humane Japanese coming-of-age warmth, trading Hana and Alice’s eccentric mystery for family connection.
04
Why this pick
This bittersweet romance has a comparably intimate early-2000s Japanese texture: funny, impulsive young characters gradually finding emotional depth beneath their initially playful encounters.
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Why this pick
A finely calibrated portrait of childhood friendship, full of small betrayals, shifting alliances, and sincere feeling. Its natural performances preserve the emotional closeness that makes Hana and Alice resonate.
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01 / THE STORY
Two teenage best pals attracted to the same boy end up scrambling his life after he walks into a door and is knocked unconscious.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
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アリス
雅志
アリスの母親
アリスの母親の恋人
アリスの父親
カメラマン
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