Night Is Short, Walk On Girl (2017) poster
2017 · animation · comedy · romance

Night Is Short, Walk On Girl

Directed by Masaaki Yuasa1h 33m2017
ElsewhereIMDb7.57kRT90%Metacritic65TMDB7.5253
  • cosy
  • kinetic
  • intense
  • surreal
  • redemptive
  • funny
Movie DNA

Cosy, breathless, measured animation / comedy, surreal in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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As a group of university students go out for a night on the town, a sophomore known only as "The Girl with Black Hair" experiences a series of surreal encounters with the local nightlife – all the while unaware of the romantic longings of "Senpai", a senior student who has been creating increasingly fantastic and contrived reasons to run into her in an effort to win her heart.

Our read · Night Is Short, Walk On Girl (2017) reads as a cosy, breathless, surreal animation · comedy · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook, with a strong directorial signature. 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 one surreal Kyoto night of bars, books, and missed-connection romance.

ends upliftingyou’ll feel glowing aftera rollercoastergrips by minute 5attention 4/5breezes bysubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-updrug use

Skip it tonightSkip if anime surrealism, heavy subtitles, or binge-drinking chaos lose you fast.

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DNA · twelve axes

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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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