If you loved Cat Girl Kiki, try My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Cat Girl Kiki

2006 · dir. Akiyoshi Sugiura

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My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?

2005 · dir. Shinji Aoyama

What they share

Theysit in Drama / Science Fiction territory. If that's the register that drew you to Cat Girl Kiki, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me? is

Contagion without tears. In 2015, a picture-borne virus sweeps Japan, causing mass suicides. Aoyama's quiet, mournful take offers a low-key apocalypse and asks how art can still matter.

If you loved Cat Girl Kiki, try My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?

Cat Girl Kiki

My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?

What they share

What My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me? is

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