2022 · animation · comedy · sci-fi
Tatami Time Machine Blues
Directed by Shingo Natsume1h 33m2022
It is August 12th. After the remote control to his boarding house's only air conditioning unit is inadvertently destroyed by spilled cola, "I" devises a plan to return to yesterday in a time machine to recover the remote before it breaks. However, his prankster friend Ozu cannot resist playing with past events, even if it means bringing the universe to the brink of destruction. Now "I" finds himself racing through time to avoid disaster.
Our read: Tatami Time Machine Blues (2022) reads as a warm, breathless, surreal animation · comedy · sci-fi entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, breathless, measured animation / comedy, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- intense
- surreal
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