If you loved Possessions, try Kakurenbo: Hide & Seek

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.

What they share

Both films are directed by Shuhei Morita, and they both carry the surreal mood tag, and they sit in Animation territory. If that's the register that drew you to Possessions, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Kakurenbo: Hide & Seek is

The last light of dusk slants through broken windows. Silhouettes flicker across the bombed-out plaza, chanting under breath. One child steps forward, the sixth seat in the circle left empty. A director who animates dread frame by frame spins this daylight nightmare into a lost-night hunt.

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