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The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl

Yoru wa Mijikashi Arukeyo Otome

2017

Masaaki Yuasa

Animation

6.7

1,122

Animation. Romance. Fantasy. Comedy The story takes place in Kyoto, and follows an upperclassman ("Sempai") who falls in love with his underclassman ("Girl with Black Hair") and tries to get her attention.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Screendaily	"Winning and confusing in equal measure, this Japanese animated feature is likely to attract devout admirers but also baffle a significant number of viewers."	NEU
United Kingdom	George Art Baker Time Out	"'The Night is Short' plays its best hand in the first act. As spectacle it’s arresting, but the lack of character development eventually becomes mind-numbing (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A weird, very bemusing and sometimes wonderful anime from Japan (...) It is romantic and hallucinogenic (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Kevin Maher The Times	"It features lots of walking and talking and drinking, and occasional screechy rock interludes. Like a Richard Linklater movie, in other words. Only less fun (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Carlos Aguilar Cartoon Brew	"A bizarre and magnetic potion of a movie (...) The fluid movement and exaggerated human characteristics seen consistently in Yuasa’s animation is exploited here to its full graphic potential for mind-bending sequences"	POS
United States	Christopher Campbell Film School Rejects	"A film with a full sense of its own space, and it marvelously absorbs and transports our imagination to the weird and wondrous world it’s selling."	POS
Ireland	Tara Brady Irish Times	"The randomness coalesces into something philosophical (...) Zippy, zany (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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