If you loved A Tree of Palme, try The Garden of Sinners: Remaining Sense of Pain

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A Tree of Palme

2002 · dir. Takashi Nakamura

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The Garden of Sinners: Remaining Sense of Pain

2008 · dir. Mitsuru Obunai

What they share

Theyboth carry the neon soaked, surreal mood tags, and they sit in Animation / Drama / Fantasy territory. If that's the register that drew you to A Tree of Palme, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What The Garden of Sinners: Remaining Sense of Pain is

A cicada’s rasp at dusk in a concrete courtyard where sneakers hang from power lines. Two twisted corpses mark the start, limbs folded like broken origami. Touko takes the case, Shiki sees herself in the scarred suspect. A feverish, precision-cut gothic noir in animated form.

If you loved A Tree of Palme, try The Garden of Sinners: Remaining Sense of Pain

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