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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
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Why this pick
Yamada’s equally intimate samurai drama finds dignity in modest domestic life, financial strain and restrained devotion, with period detail serving the emotional weight rather than spectacle.
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Why this pick
Its quiet Edo-era world, social constraints and unshowy moral courage closely echo the tender, human-scale texture of Love and Honor.
03
Why this pick
A reflective samurai story centred on sacrifice for family, rendered with melancholy and compassion rather than heroic bombast.
04
Why this pick
For the disciplined swordsmanship and fatalistic feudal atmosphere, this is a far darker, visually rigorous meditation on what violence does to a man.
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Why this pick
This poised chamber drama shares Love and Honor’s controlled Edo-period setting, where duty, status and suppressed feeling shape every personal choice.
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01 / THE STORY
Shinnojo, a low level samurai, lives with his pretty and loyal wife Kayo. Bored with his position as a food-taster for a feudal lord, he talks about opening a kendo school open to boys of all castes. Before he can act, he becomes ill after tasting some whelk sashimi. An investigation reveals that the poisoning was not a human conspiracy, but a poor choice of food out of season. After three days, he awakes but finds that the toxin has blinded him.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Sakunosuke Higuchi
Shinnojo Mimura
Ine Hatano
Tokuhei
