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Now showing — Talking Timbuktu · 5 works

  • Given Anime · 2010s

    Tightly clutching his Gibson guitar, Mafuyu Satou steps out of his dark apartment to begin another day of his high school life. While taking a nap in a quiet spot on the gymnasium staircase, he has a chance encounter with fellow student Ritsuka Uenoyama, who berates him for letting his guitar's strings rust and brea...

    Urban isolationFolkloreIdentity
  • The Door Books · 1980s

    Electronics engineer Dan Davis has finally made the invention of a lifetime: a household robot with extraordinary abilities, destined to dramatically change the landscape of everyday routine. Then, with wild success just within reach, Dan's greedy partner and greedier fiancée trick him into taking the long sleep--su...

    NatureMemoryMigration
  • Kino's Journey Anime · 2000s

    After running away from the grim future that awaited her back in her home country, a young girl takes upon a new name and identity—inspired by the man who sacrificed his life to help her escape. Alongside her newfound companion, a talking motorcycle, the two find themselves a new home in the forest—where lives an el...

    MigrationIdentityNature
  • 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...

    FolkloreIdentitySurveillance
  • The Great Dictator Film · 1940s

    Chaplin's first talking picture. A Jewish barber and a dictator who look alike.

    After-hoursPowerLonging
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