What do you do if you're a journeyman director and well known effects whiz who manages to put out a film that blends audience pleasing nostalgia and critic pleasing depth, so much so that your film becomes both a massive box office success and sweeps the local equivalent of the Oscars - taking home twelve of thirteen possible awards? If you're Takashi Yamazaki, who did precisely that with the crowd pleasing Always: Sunset On Third Street, you do it again. Yamazaki is currently in post on a sequel to his breakthough film, this one titled Always zoku san-chôme no yûhi and all it takes is a quick glance at the trailers to see that he's smart enough not to mess with what worked the first time around. The key players are back in place and he once again has managed a flawless recreation of post-war Tokyo. Very nice.
