Case Closed: The Fist of Blue Sapphire (2019) poster
2019 · animation · mystery · crime · action

Case Closed: The Fist of Blue Sapphire

Directed by Chika Nagaoka1h 49m2019
ElsewhereIMDb6.32k
  • sombre
  • kinetic
  • extreme
  • twisty
  • epic-stakes
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Sombre, breathless, extreme animation / mystery, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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The world's greatest blue sapphire, the "blue lapis fist", said to have sunk in a pirate ship in the late 19th century, on the coasts of Singapore. A local millionaire plots to retrieve it, and when it's exhibited in an exhibition at the Singaporean Marina Sands hotel, a murder takes place.

Our read · Case Closed: The Fist of Blue Sapphire (2019) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive animation · mystery · crime entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. 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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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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