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Semi Shigure
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Purple Rain
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Semishigure
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Laozi
Carries a strong pull into books through folklore and identity.
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The Souvenir
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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Special
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and South Asia.
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Special
2010s
Special is an American comedy-drama television series created by Ryan O'Connell for Netflix. Starring Ryan O'Connell, the series is a semi-autobiographical account of his life as a gay man in Los Angeles with cerebral palsy pursuing new friendships, relationships, and self-sufficiency.
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The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists
1910s
The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists is a 1914 semi-autobiographical novel by Irish house painter and sign writer Robert Noonan, who wrote the book in his spare time under the pen name Robert Tressell. Published after Tressell's death from tuberculosis in the Liverpool Royal Infirmary in 1911, the novel follows a ho...
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Purple Rain
1980s
The soundtrack to Prince's semi-autobiographical film. When Doves Cry and everything after.
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The Souvenir
2010s
The Souvenir is a 2019 romantic drama film written, directed, and co-produced by Joanna Hogg. The film is a semi-autobiographical account of Hogg's experiences at film school. It stars Honor Swinton Byrne, Tom Burke, and Tilda Swinton. It follows a young, quietly ambitious film student who embarks on her first serio...
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Laozi
6th-century BC semi-legendary Chinese philosopher, founder of Taoism
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Semishigure