If you loved Love & Pop, try Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death and Rebirth

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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Love & Pop

1998 · dir. Hideaki Anno

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Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death and Rebirth

1997 · dir. Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki, Masayuki, Tensai Okamura, Seiji Mizushima, Masahiko Otsuka, Hiroyuki Ishido, Shoichi Masuo, Naoyasu Habu, Tetsuya Watanabe, Minoru Ohara, Tsuyoshi Kaga, Ken Ando, Akira Takamura, Keiichi Sugiyama

What they share

Both films are directed by Hideaki Anno, and they both carry the foreign gem, outsider mood tags, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Love & Pop, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

foreign gemoutsider

What Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death and Rebirth is

Brooklyn meets Evangelion. A teenage pilot confronts an apocalyptic force but the real battle is the weight of his own mind. Neon noir and robot ballet collide in a fragile human story.

If you loved Love & Pop, try Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death and Rebirth

Love & Pop

Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death and Rebirth

What they share

What Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death and Rebirth is

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