2018 · action · adventure · sci-fi
Inuyashiki
Directed by Shinsuke Sato2h 7m2018
A middle-aged office worker encounters aliens and is gifted with alien technology and limitless powers.
Our read: Inuyashiki (2018) reads as a sombre, breathless, surreal action · adventure · sci-fi entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / adventure, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- surreal
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