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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
Its gently comic portrait of an elaborate fantasist shares The Taste of Tea's affection for oddball behavior, patient observation, and the melancholy that can sit beneath stylized whimsy.
02
Why this pick
A tender, visually delicate suburban fable that finds wonder and loneliness in ordinary routines, echoing the earlier film's childlike imagination and unhurried attention to small emotional shifts.
03
Why this pick
Its playful, interconnected structure turns seemingly minor characters and events into a buoyant cosmic chain reaction, matching the pleasure of The Taste of Tea's digressive, affectionate world-building.
04
Why this pick
A warm, absurdist comedy about lovable misfits pursuing impractical dreams, with the same relaxed pacing and generosity toward characters whose eccentricity is never treated cruelly.
05
Why this pick
This rambling urban odd-couple journey has a similarly episodic, offbeat flow: deadpan encounters gradually make room for sincere connection without sacrificing its whimsical comic texture.
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01 / THE STORY
The film is concerned with the lives of the Haruno family, who live in rural Tochigi Prefecture, the countryside north of Tokyo. Nobuo is a hypnotherapist. He teaches his son, Hajime, Go (board game). Hajime becomes an excellent Go player, but he has a rough time with girls and puberty. Yoshiko refuses to be an average housewife and works on animated film projects at home. She uses assistance from grandfather Akira, an eccentric old man who is a former animator and occasional model.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Akira Terako
Teacher Gashi
Maki Hoshino
Narrator
Teacher
Ayano Haruno - uncle
Kasugabe
(as Yuriko Kikuchi)
