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Mind Game
Why this pick
Its wildly elastic animation and urban energy echo Tekkonkinkreet’s visual daring, while its restless momentum turns a rough, chaotic city into an intensely emotional inner journey.
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MOVIE2006 1h 43m JPN
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Princess Mononoke
Why this pick
Like Tekkonkinkreet, it makes conflict physical and morally bruising, balancing spectacular hand-drawn movement with empathy for characters caught between development, violence and a threatened home.
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Night Is Short, Walk on Girl
Why this pick
Its saturated nighttime city, playful visual transformations and breathless movement offer a lighter but comparably imaginative immersion in an urban world that seems to reshape itself around its characters.
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Tokyo Godfathers
Why this pick
A compassionate street-level Tokyo odyssey centered on people surviving at the margins; its grounded city detail and emotional warmth complement Tekkonkreet’s concern for vulnerable urban outsiders.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Two penniless orphans, Black and White, struggle to survive on the mean streets of Treasure Town. When a megacorporation threatens to tear down the town to build an amusement park, Black and White engage in the fight of their life.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Kazunari Ninomiya
Kuro / Itachi (voice)
Yu Aoi
Shiro (voice)
Mugihito
Kumichô (voice)
Yoshinori Okada
Banira (voice)
Mayumi Yamaguchi
Yoru (voice)
Tooru Nara
Chinpira (voice)
Shunsuke Mizutani
Apatchi 3 (voice)
Yusuke Iseya
Kimura (voice)