Recommend art film anime or japanese film.

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Heimdall_Xtreme

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Recommend art film anime, about life or philosophical.

What philosophical or artistic anime or live action movies do you recommend? I am on vacation. XD
 
Serial Experiments Lain


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The Tale of Princess Kaguya

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Its not philosophical but it's a beautiful story from Japanese folklore with amazing animation
 
Will have a think but not many are very much about philosophy. I would highly recommend Kore-eda's films

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They are much more of family drama of the highest quality.
 
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Ima, Soko ni Iru Boku

Shuuzou "Shuu" Matsutani lives his ordinary life in peace. He has friends, a crush, and a passion for kendo. Dejected after losing to his kendo rival, Shuu climbs a smokestack to watch the sunset where he finds Lala-Ru, a quiet, blue-haired girl wearing a strange pendant. Shuu attempts to...
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Noein: Mou Hitori no Kimi e

During their last summer of elementary school, four friends decide to undertake a test of courage at their local graveyard. Before the test begins, Haruka Kaminogi makes a last effort to pull Yuu Gotou away from his controlling mother. While doing so, Haruka suddenly has a strange vision of blue...
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If, and this is a big if, you can find it, try "Resurrection of the little match girl". A 2002 Korean oddity that was promoted at the time as being techno-taoist.

And it really is; a wild mish-mash of videogamey tropes (it has multiple endings and game overs!) and Taoist philosophy.

Its very strange and I loved it.
 
Anything by Satoshi Kon but Perfect Blue in particular.

If you want to be a bit bored whilst looking at pretty art then Beladonna of Sadness. Best described as the kind of thing I might watch for 10 minutes if it was running in an art gallery but I found it tedious to sit and watch from start to finish.
 
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The Chef of South Polar / 南極料理人 - Shuichi Okita (2009)

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It is a Japanese movie I quite enjoyed. It's based on a true story about a scientific outpost in Antarctica. Particularly the life of the Chef who works there and cooks the meals for the 8 or so men who are stationed there for a year. A lot of the teams mental state depends on small comforts like thier meal times. That is why the chef is the central character.

Deals mostly with peoples metal state when having to live for a long time in the middle nowhere. Cabin fever and such. But it is mostly humorous between the mental breakdowns here and there.

Just imagine the movie The Thing but without the Horror part.

I saw it on Netflix
 
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Since you didn't limit this to animation...let's dust off some cult classics shall we?

Gozu, mind bending horror:


Hausu, surreal comedy horror:


Burning, it's technically a short Japanese story adapted to movie by a Korean director, it has as much in common as Oldboy with it's comic, but it's also just as good.
Haruki Murakami has a really distinctive writing style that makes daily life feel kinda magical, the movie really captures that despite how different it is from the source material.


Suicide Club, Not really much of a obscure movie, but it's a cult classic and has some deep shit under all the gore.


The Neighbor No. 13, really amazing Japanese horror movie that i feel gets overshadowed by Ichi the killer sometimes since they share similar concepts.


Ichi the Killer, while i prefer Gozu from Takeshi Mike, this is definetly the movie that made him famous overseas.


Man, i wonder what the fuck happened to Japanese movies, there used to be so much cool shit, now it's mostly Live Action movies that look like cosplay fan films.
I feel like the modern Korean movies are like what Japanese ones used to be.
 
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Surprised no ones mentioned this already but...



Macross do you remember love? A movie within a series... in the time line of Macross its an in universe film produced to remind the people of the Macross fleets there history and what's at stake. As a stand alone film its a retelling of the original Macross series with breathtaking artwork for its time (1984), for many its the starting point for them getting into the franchise with its unique blend of action, drama and how music is a gateway into understanding one another.
 
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