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Now showing — A Tale of Cinema · 5 works

  • A robot child is programmed to love his human mother — who abandons him. Spielberg completes Kubrick's fairy tale about what it means to be real.

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  • 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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  • Princess Tutu Anime · 2000s

    In a fairy tale come to life, the clumsy, sweet, and gentle Ahiru seems like an unlikely protagonist. In reality, Ahiru is just as magical as the talking cats and crocodiles that inhabit her town—for Ahiru really is a duck! Transformed by the mysterious Drosselmeyer into a human girl, Ahiru soon learns the reason fo...

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  • Ranking of Kings Anime · 2020s

    A deaf, powerless prince proves his worth. Fairy tale aesthetics with devastating emotional depth.

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  • A bamboo cutter finds a tiny girl. Watercolor animation retelling Japan's oldest fairy tale.

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