The Liar and His Lover
Why this pick
Its youthful romance has a similarly soft, unshowy emotional register, with music and small social interactions shaping a tender story about the awkwardness of expressing affection.
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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
Why this pick
Its youthful romance has a similarly soft, unshowy emotional register, with music and small social interactions shaping a tender story about the awkwardness of expressing affection.
Why this pick
For the film’s interest in relationships revealed through natural conversation, this offers an exceptionally attentive, intimate portrait of friendship and romantic dissatisfaction, patient with silences and emotional contradictions.
Why this pick
Its relaxed comic spirit and affectionate eye for offbeat people echo the gentle, lived-in charm of Love and Goodbye and Hawaii, turning everyday setbacks into a quietly uplifting coming-of-age journey.
Why this pick
A deeply relatable modern romance built from shared tastes, routines, and tiny shifts in connection; it carries the same interest in how love is made and altered in everyday life.
Why this pick
Daigo Matsui similarly captures Tokyo relationships through casual banter and fleeting moments, using a playful, fragmented structure to make nostalgia and missed connection feel immediate.
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01 / THE STORY
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

Rinko
Tomomi
Kasumi

Isamu