If you loved Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, try Cat Soup
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Cat Soup has roughly 7.4× fewer votes than Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Theysit in Animation / Fantasy / Science Fiction territory. If that's the register that drew you to Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What Cat Soup is
Alice in Wonderland without the tea party. A kitten named Nyatta journeys to the land of the dead to retrieve his sister's soul. This short delivers a fever-dream of surreal imagery.
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