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Kayoko's Diary

1991 · 90 min

A quiet, devastating plunge into a child's ordinary life as war slowly strips everything away.

Directed by: Seiji Arihara
Genres: Animation, Drama, War
Starring: Masako Ikeda, Katsue Miwa, Masako Nozawa

Overview: Kayoko is a young girl in 1940, just starting first grade. Nothing can prepare her for 1945, and the bleak times that are soon to come.

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Directed by: Seiji Arihara
Genres: Animation, Drama, War
Starring: Masako Ikeda, Katsue Miwa, Masako Nozawa

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Tone: bleakstrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 3 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: war
grief
survival
family
coming-of-age
Places: small town
home
Era: period
Audience: teen
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language none
Violence strong
Sex none

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Action	2
Horror	4
Humour	2
Realism	8
Romance	1
Tension	6
Darkness	8
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	9

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Genres: animation, drama, war
Directed by: Seiji Arihara
Written by: Seiji Arihara, Toshiaki Imaizumi
Starring: Masako Ikeda, Katsue Miwa, Masako Nozawa, Nozomu Sasaki, Norio Wakamoto, Michiyo Yanagisawa
Cinematography: Hiroshi Isakawa
Runtime: 90 min
Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese, Arabic

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