# Professor Dan Petory's Blues (2002)

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**Original title**: *ダン・ペトリ一教授の憂鬱*
**Runtime**: 10 min
**Genres**: Animation
**Directed by**: Hidekazu Ohara

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Blue Man and his puppet explain the cosmos through jazz and vodka. Professor Dan’s drunken hand controls Junior the puppet who breaks down astrophysics in song. The film rides a lo-fi lounge beat into the uncanny valley.

**Mood tags**: playful, surreal, unhinged

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