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Films like maboroshi.

maboroshi (2023) reads as Sombre, measured, measured animation / drama, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Meanwhile on Earth (2024) poster
1. Meanwhile on Earth2024

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The Frame (2014) poster
2. The Frame2014

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

LOLA (2023) poster
3. LOLA2023

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Another End (2024) poster
4. Another End2024

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace; trades toward a intimate, personal stakes.

Vanishing Waves (2012) poster
5. Vanishing Waves2012

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

The Discovery (2017) poster
6. The Discovery2017

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Youth Without Youth (2007) poster
7. Youth Without Youth2007

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a chilly detachment.

Pale Cocoon (2005) poster
8. Pale Cocoon2005

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Starfish (2019) poster
9. Starfish2019

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a world-sized stakes.

Resurrection (2025) poster
10. Resurrection2025

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

The Garden of Sinners: Oblivion Recording (2008) poster
11. The Garden of Sinners: Oblivion Recording2008

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a chilly detachment.

A Tree of Palme (2002) poster
12. A Tree of Palme2002

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

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