If you loved Blue Giant, try Death Billiards
Eine Brücke zwischen einem Film, den du schon gesehen hast, und einem, den kaum jemand kennt. Das teilen sie, und was der zweite macht, was der erste nicht macht.
Was sie teilen
Both films are directed by Yuzuru Tachikawa, and they both carry the foreign gem mood tag, and they sit in Animation / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Blue Giant, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What Death Billiards is
The neon flicker of an empty bar at midnight. Two strangers, one silvered beard, one ink-stained hands, lean over the emerald table. Queues click like metronomes before the first shot. A game of billiards begins—every ball struck carries a debt. Lives are the currency. A single, quiet instant from Masaaki Yuasa’s early palette, where shadows play stake for souls.

