Inuyashiki (2018) poster
2018 · action · adventure · sci-fi · fantasy

Inuyashiki

Directed by Shinsuke Sato2h 7m2018
ElsewhereIMDb6.63kRT100%
  • sombre
  • kinetic
  • extreme
  • surreal
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Sombre, breathless, extreme action / adventure, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A middle-aged office worker encounters aliens and is gifted with alien technology and limitless powers.

Our read · Inuyashiki (2018) reads as a sombre, breathless, surreal action · adventure · sci-fi entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want Japanese sci-fi about an ordinary man gaining alien powers and using them.

ends bittersweetit leaves you shakena slow buildgrips by minute 25attention 3/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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