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Alienation Breeders
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OK Computer
Carries a strong pull into film through urban isolation and after-hours.
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The Suburbs
Carries a strong pull into film through memory and urban isolation.
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Adrift in Tokyo
Carries a strong pull into music through urban isolation and after-hours.
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Sonatine
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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Books · Strong bridge
The Catcher in the Rye
1950s
Holden Caulfield narrates three days in New York. Alienation and adolescence.
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Music · Strong bridge
OK Computer
1990s
Alienation in the information age. The album that predicted 21st century anxiety.
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Serial Experiments Lain
1990s
A landmark anime of networked identity, urban unease, and technological alienation.
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Sonatine
1990s
Sonatine is a 1993 Japanese yakuza film directed, written and edited by Takeshi Kitano, who also stars in the film. It won numerous awards and became one of Kitano's most successful and praised films, garnering him a sizable international fan base.
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Books 1910s
The Metamorphosis
A man wakes up as an insect. Alienation, family, and the absurd in 60 devastating pages.
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Music 2010s
The Suburbs
Growing up in sprawl. Nostalgia, alienation, and the roads that lead nowhere and everywhere.
Film 2000s
Adrift in Tokyo
An odd Tokyo companionship unfolds through walking, delay, and low-stakes urban drift.
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Books 1940s
No Longer Human
A man's confession of his inability to connect. Japan's most famous novel of alienation.
Film 2000s
Pulse
Pulse is a 2001 Japanese techno-horror film written and directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. The plot follows two separate storylines in Japan that faces mass disappearances amidst a ghostly invasion of the real world via the Internet. One f...
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Books 2010s
Convenience Store Woman
A woman finds meaning working at a convenience store. Conformity, alienation, and quiet rebellion.