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Only for a Short While
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Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Only Yesterday
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Night Is Short, Walk on Girl
Carries a strong pull into books through after-hours and folklore.
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Only Lovers Left Alive
Carries a strong pull into books through after-hours and memory.
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A Tale for the Time Being
2010s
In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before she ends it all, she plans to document the life of her great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. A diary is Nao's only solace. Across the Pacific a novelist...
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Only Yesterday
1990s
Aoba Riku has just transferred to a new high school because of his father's job, and things aren't quite what he expected. The headmaster's secretary controls the school while espousing the virtues of academic freedom, the teachers are even stranger than normal teachers, and half the student body is walking around w...
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Only Lovers Left Alive
2010s
Only Lovers Left Alive is a 2013 film from United Kingdom, Germany, and France, associated with Jim Jarmusch. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.
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Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
2010s
It's 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with politics and partying. He studies queer theory, has a dyke best friend, makes zines, and is a flâneur with a rich dating life. But Paul's also got a secret: he's a shapeshifter. Oscillating wildly from Riot Grrrl to leath...
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One & Only Rashid
Anime 2010s
When Marnie Was There
During a Literature Club meeting, the four club members—along with their faculty adviser's niece—suddenly find themselves with supernatural powers. Now capable of fabricating black flames, resident chuunibyou Jurai Andou is the most ecstatic about their new abilities; unfortunately, his own is only for show and unab...
Film 1980s
For Your Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Only is a 1981 film from United Kingdom, associated with John Glen. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.
Books 1970s
The Lathe of Heaven
“The Lathe of Heaven” ; 1971 ( Ursula Le Guin received the 1973 Locus Award for this story) George Orr has a gift – he is an effective dreamer: his dreams become reality when he wakes up. He is aware of his past and present, two or more sets of memories, although the people around him are only aware of the current r...
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Music 1980s
Only Yesterday
Anime 2010s
Night Is Short, Walk on Girl
After their parents' deaths, brother and sister Akito and Akiko Himenokouji were forced to live with separate families for six years. But now they have finally reunited and begin to live together. It quickly becomes apparent that Akiko harbors romantic feelings for her brother; however, Akito only sees her as a sibl...