Short film
Half-Broken Music Box
2010 · 30 min
A quiet, tender story about loss and small daily routines, with a gentle sadness that lingers.
- Directed by
- Keiichiro Kawaguchi
- Genres
- Animation, Drama
- Starring
- Tetsuya Kakihara, Masumi Asano, Yuka Iguchi
- Overview
- In 2039, helper androids are widespread as general purpose electronics. Keiichirou lost his family in a traffic accident and retired from his band. One day, he finds an old model android in a garbage dump. He takes her home and names her "Flower".
- How it feels
- Melancholic, warm, earnest and dark. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
- About
- Grief, memory, isolation, found family
- Content
- Mild language. No violence, gore or sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Keiichiro Kawaguchi
- Genres
- Animation, Drama
- Starring
- Tetsuya Kakihara, Masumi Asano, Yuka Iguchi
