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The Dam Keeper (S)

The Dam Keeper

2014

Daisuke 'Dice' Tsutsumi, Robert Kondo

Animation

7.1

384

Animation. Drama Pig does everything he can to protect his town but nobody shows any gratitude. He trots tirelessly up and down the stairs, moving heavy levers and making sure the windmill keeps turning. This is the only way he can hold back the billowing black clouds of smoke which threaten to engulf everything. In between all of this, Pig rushes to school before hurrying back to the dam each day. The townspeople continue to ridicule and scoff at him, ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"[It] offers perhaps the most harrowing emotional workout, aided in no small part by its near-total absence of dialogue and a piano score that sets a hauntingly forlorn mood from the start."	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"A wondrous allegory of ecological and emotional woe wrapped in a tale of bullying and betrayal."	POS

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