The Fall (2006) (2006) poster
2006 · fantasy · drama · adventure

The Fall (2006)

Directed by Genta Satou, Takao Kinoshita, Yoshiko Hoshida, Yasushi Ueda2h 18m2006
  • intense
  • surreal
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Movie DNA

Neutral, steady, measured fantasy / drama, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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***Kyouko-san (Miss Kyouko) A young therapist at a hospital investigates when a spirit appears and kills people who say "Kyouko-san, Kyouko-san, please make me pretty" to the bathroom mirror. ***Buchou OL (Manager-OL) [office lady] An OL and her boss switch bodies. ***Kinou Kouen (Yesterday at the park) Domoto Koichi plays a man who loses his friend due to a freak accident. He then finds that through a time slip, he can return to the previous day and save his friend. ***Neko ga Ongaeshi (Cat Repays a Favor) Kashiwagi Emi (Uchiyama Rina) is unable to get over her grandmother's death. Her cat Kuro decides he will cure her loneliness. ***Kazoku Kaigi (Family Meeting) A family of three meet with a car accident, but strangely wake up in their home the next morning. They are then told that they have to sacrifice one of them so two may live.

Our read · The Fall (2006) (2006) reads as a neutral, steady, surreal fantasy · drama · adventure entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent 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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What watching it is actually like.

You crave breathtaking global visuals around a tale of storytelling and healing.

ends bittersweetyou’ll feel glowing aftera slow buildgrips by minute 18attention 4/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upnuditysuicide themegraphic violencechild peril

Skip it tonightYou cannot abide a child being drawn into an adult's suicide plan even in fantasy.

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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