2023 · animation · drama · music
Blue Giant
Directed by Yuzuru Tachikawa2h 0m2023
High school student Dai Miyamoto has his life is turned upside down the day he discovers jazz. Picking up a saxophone and leaving his sleepy hometown for the bustling nightclubs of Tokyo, Dai will find that the life of a professional musician isn’t for the faint of heart, as he must confront what it truly means to be great.
Our read: Blue Giant (2023) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded animation · drama · music entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle animation / drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- tender
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“You want to follow a young sax player chasing jazz greatness in Tokyo.”
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