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Sennen Joyuu
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Kaze Tachinu
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Both use what is on the surface is a seemingly relatively straightforward fictional biopic as a vehicle for far more complex and multilayered story, both extensively reference other works, deal with legacy of an individual's work as a theme, as well as overlapping in the time periods covered.
Many other similarities in plot, potentially as a result of Japanese and Western postwar dramas being an influence, and historical events given the time period covered.
A striking number of visual similarities as well, notwithstanding that many of the same people worked on both: an artist painting on a hillside, the melodramatic train station scenes, kanto earthquake, train
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