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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
Like Fukasaku’s film, it confronts wartime Japan through one person’s moral ordeal, combining institutional cruelty, fractured ideals, and an unsparing humanist perspective.
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Why this pick
A brutal, hallucinatory descent through Japan’s collapsing war effort, matching the anti-militarist force and refusal to romanticize soldiers’ suffering.
03
Why this pick
Its postwar reckoning with Japanese soldiers shares the original’s sorrowful moral gravity, though its contemplative style offers a more elegiac path toward accountability.
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Why this pick
Imamura similarly examines war’s aftermath through damaged ordinary lives, using restrained observation and social detail to make historical trauma feel enduringly intimate.
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Why this pick
For the investigative, accusatory side of the film: this volatile documentary follows a veteran forcing buried testimonies about Japanese wartime atrocities into the open.
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01 / THE STORY
A woman searches for the truth about her husband's death during World War II after the government labels him a deserter. She tracks down four men who knew her husband and asks them to reveal the truth about his last days to her.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
2nd Lieutenant Tadahiko Ohashi
Pvt. Tsuguo Terajima
Sergeant Katsuo Togashi
