2018 · animation · comedy · adventure
Checkered Ninja
Directed by Anders Matthesen, Thorbjørn Christoffersen1h 23m2018
A possessed Ninja doll teams up with a teenage boy to avenge the murder of a poor child factory worker.
Our read: Checkered Ninja (2018) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive animation · comedy · adventure entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured animation / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- kinetic
- inventive
- funny
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