2021 · musical · historical · fantasy
Inu-Oh
Directed by Masaaki Yuasa1h 38m2021
A cursed dancer and a blind musician — both ostracized by society — become business partners and inseparable friends as their larger-than-life concerts propel them to stardom in 14th century Japan.
Our read: Inu-Oh (2021) reads as a neutral, breathless, surreal musical · historical · fantasy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, breathless, measured musical / historical, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- brisk
- intense
- surreal
- signature
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