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The Girl from the Other Side

2023 · 70 min

A quiet, haunting fable that envelops you in a gentle melancholy, like a long dusk that is somehow both tender and uneasy.

Directed by
Satomi Maiya, Yutaro Kubo
Genres
Animation, Drama, Mystery
Starring
Jun Fukuyama, Rie Takahashi, Hiroki Goto
Overview
Once upon a time, in a far, faraway place, there were two lands. The world was divided into an inner land and an outer land. People feared the outer land, inhabited by eerie beings, the carriers of curse. One day, on the border to the inner land inhabited by humans, one such being finds a girl on heaps of abandoned dead bodies. The girl says her name is Shiva and shows affection to the "being" who found her, calling him "Teacher." This is a story of two people—one human, one inhuman—who linger in the hazy twilight that separates night from day.

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Directed by
Satomi Maiya, Yutaro Kubo
Genres
Animation, Drama, Mystery
Starring
Jun Fukuyama, Rie Takahashi, Hiroki Goto
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • eeriestrength 3 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • found family
  • identity
  • death
  • grief
Places
  • countryside
  • wilderness
Era
timeless
Audience
teen
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror3
Humour1
Realism2
Romance1
Tension5
Darkness7
Complexity6
Emotional weight8

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Details

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Directed by
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Written by
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Starring
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