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Plain Tales from the Hills
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Scum's Wish
Carries a strong pull into books through memory and folklore.
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Pain and Glory
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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No More Pain
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Plain Tales from Poona
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Regarding the Pain of Others
Carries a strong pull into anime through modernity and identity.
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No More Pain
2010s
No More Pain is a 2010 album associated with KAT-TUN and Storm Labels. It keeps the music field anchored in recognizable listening lines rather than anonymous album slots.
Anime · Strong bridge
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
2000s
On the precipice of a cataclysmic drought, the Star Readers of the Shin Yogo Empire must devise a plan to avoid widespread famine. It is written in ancient myths that the first emperor, along with eight warriors, slew a water demon to avoid a great drought and save the land that was to become Shin Yogo. If a water d...
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25 Watts
2000s
Three young men drift through a single hot day in Montevideo with nothing to do and no plan to find something. Uruguayan slacker cinema at its purest.
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Regarding the Pain of Others
2000s
War photography and the ethics of looking at suffering. Sontag's final major essay.
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Real Life
"A novel of rare emotional power that excavates the social intricacies of a late-summer weekend -- and a lifetime of buried pain. Almost everything about Wallace, an introverted African-American transplant from Alabama, is at odds with the lakeside Midwestern university town where he is working toward a biochem degr...
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More Plain Tales From the Raj
Anime 2010s
Scum's Wish
To the outside world, Hanabi Yasuraoka and Mugi Awaya are the perfect couple. But in reality, they just share the same secret pain: they are both in love with other people they cannot be with. Hanabi has loved her childhood friend and neighbor Narumi Kanai for as long as she can remember, so she is elated to discove...
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Pain and Glory
Pain and Glory is a 2019 film from Spain and France, associated with Pedro Almodóvar. 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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Music 2010s
Plain Tales from Poona
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Film 2020s
The Power of the Dog
A rancher's cruelty conceals vulnerability on the 1920s Montana plains.