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Mind Game
Why this pick
Its elastic, anything-can-happen animation and headlong comic violence match Dead Leaves’ manic momentum, while pushing the surrealism into a more emotionally liberated direction.
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MOVIE2004 0h 52m JPN
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
A maximalist burst of hand-drawn speed, grotesque design, and gleefully excessive action—ideal if Dead Leaves’ visual overload and breakneck rhythm were the draw.
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Why this pick
Imaishi brings the same confrontational energy: wild metamorphoses, visual jokes fired at impossible speed, and action that treats escalation as its entire aesthetic.
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FLCL
Why this pick
Its short episodes pack adolescent chaos, abrupt stylistic shifts, absurd sci-fi, and punk energy into a similarly unruly animated experience.
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Night Is Short, Walk on Girl
Why this pick
Less abrasive but comparably uninhibited, this all-night animated odyssey uses elastic characters, feverish transitions, and comic surrealism with infectious forward motion.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
When Laura (Elizabeth Gondek) dies, her unbalanced boyfriend Joey (Haim Abramsky) suffers a nervous breakdown. He steals the body and escapes on a self-destructive journey through a lonely autumn landscape of motels, freeways and rainy towns. At night he tries to preserve her fading beauty in strange rituals while remembering the happy and dark moments of their relationship. As she starts to decay physically, he descends mentally and emotionally. When he reaches the ocean shore he shoots himself to be united with her.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Kappei Yamaguchi
Retro (voice)
Takako Honda
Pandy (voice)
Kiyoyuki Yanada
777 (voice)
Mitsuo Iwata
666 (voice)