If you loved .hack//G.U. Returner, 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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.hack//G.U. Returner

2007 · dir. Koichi Mashimo

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

2005 · dir. Shinji Aoyama

What they share

Theyboth carry the foreign gem mood tag, and they sit in Drama / Science Fiction territory. If that's the register that drew you to .hack//G.U. Returner, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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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 .hack//G.U. Returner, try My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?

.hack//G.U. Returner

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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