Glasses / めがね (2007).
A slow-paced movie that you're hesitant to watch at first, but then it somehow pulls you in. It tells you almost nothing about the characters, you have all the same first impressions the main heroine has of the people and place. And at the beginning it seems irritataing, like what do you mean we're not told anything and not a single question is answered? But by the end it doesn't matter. It shows the way to "twilight", calmly accept whatever life is to offer and just drift, drift, drift... into the contemplative state. Very curious about the word 黄昏れる ("tasogareru") that was the basic idea here. Translators might've had a bit of a hard time here, English ones chose "to twilight", which is the only meaning I knew, but NOT in its verb form... hmm.
By the end it started feeling borderline magical in a totally non-magical setting

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Jin goes through the harrowing prison experience, gets out, and Saki asks him what he wants to eat.

Partner: tofu!

Me: that's Korean, not Japanese.

Jin: Fried tofu!

Partner: See?

Me: wot?

(Frantic internet searching seems to indicate this is a coincidence. )

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