If you loved Death Billiards, try Blue Giant

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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Death Billiards

2013 · dir. Yuzuru Tachikawa

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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 Death Billiards, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Blue Giant is

The slacker meets Coltrane when a high schooler grabs a sax and chases Tokyo’s neon jazz dens. Overnight he trades homework for late-night sets and brutal self-doubt. A fluid slice of twenty-teens nightlife carried by a single, unstoppable kid.

If you loved Death Billiards, try Blue Giant

Death Billiards

Blue Giant

What they share

What Blue Giant is

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If you loved Death Billiards, try Blue Giant

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