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The Garden of Sinners: Overlooking View

2007 · 50 min

A hushed, haunted mood piece that drifts through grief and spectral dread, rewarding patience with eerie imagery and quiet philosophical ache.

Directed by
Ei Aoki
Genres
Animation, Crime, Action
Starring
Maaya Sakamoto, Kenichi Suzumura, Rie Tanaka
Tagline
"People do not cease to exist immediately after dying, as long as there are people who remember them."
Overview
The story starts following an incident: a young girl jumps from the top of a building. The image provokes a certain dread, as the girl appears to have been a corpse even before she jumped. The case is dismissed, yet more and more of these suicides occur, and all from the same building. Thus began the rumour, that a ghost inhabited the rooftop of the building.

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Directed by
Ei Aoki
Genres
Animation, Crime, Action
Starring
Maaya Sakamoto, Kenichi Suzumura, Rie Tanaka
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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • eeriestrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • death
  • isolation
  • loneliness
  • identity
  • obsession
Places
  • big city
  • hospital
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action5
Horror6
Humour2
Realism4
Romance2
Tension7
Darkness8
Complexity8
Emotional weight7

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Starring
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