# Pendulum (2012)

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**Original title**: *振り子*
**Runtime**: 4 min
**Genres**: Music, Animation, Drama
**Directed by**: Takefumi Kurashina
**Written by**: Takefumi Kurashina

> *The back and forth swings of a life.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Pendulum meets The Animatrix. A woman’s fixed smile masks a stormy marriage to a man who can’t stop losing control. The weight of unspoken anger tilts their world until only the silence keeps spinning.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, bittersweet, raw

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