Films like Tatami Time Machine Blues.

Tatami Time Machine Blues (2022) reads as Warm, breathless, measured animation / comedy, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, 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.

Night Is Short, Walk On Girl (2017) poster
1. Night Is Short, Walk On Girl2017

Keeps the strange, dreamlike logic and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Night Is Short (2) (2017) poster
2. The Night Is Short (2)2017

Keeps the strange, dreamlike logic and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Rango (2011) (2011) poster
3. Rango2011

Keeps the strange, dreamlike logic and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Poor Creatures (2023) poster
4. Poor Creatures2023

Keeps the strange, dreamlike logic and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

KPop Demon Hunters (2025) poster
5. KPop Demon Hunters2025

Keeps the strange, dreamlike logic and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Nimona (2023) poster
6. Nimona2023

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Grand Theft Hamlet (2024) poster
7. Grand Theft Hamlet2024

Keeps the strange, dreamlike logic and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Eega (2012) poster
8. Eega2012

Keeps the strange, dreamlike logic and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Dave Made a Maze (2017) poster
9. Dave Made a Maze2017

Keeps the strange, dreamlike logic and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Diamantino (2018) poster
10. Diamantino2018

Keeps the strange, dreamlike logic and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Lu Over the Wall (2017) poster
11. Lu Over the Wall2017

Keeps the strange, dreamlike logic and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (2006) poster
12. I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK2006

Keeps the strange, dreamlike logic and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

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