If you loved Twilight of the Cockroaches, try The Five Star Stories

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

Theyboth carry the surreal mood tag, and they sit in Animation / Drama / Science Fiction territory. If that's the register that drew you to Twilight of the Cockroaches, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What The Five Star Stories is

You're a Headliner riding into battle beneath twin red suns and your fatima hums a lullaby as she powers your Mortar Head’s plasma blade. Then the empire's newest decree demands all knights surrender their fatimas to the Crown. A director’s camera lingers on a fatima’s silent wristwatch while Yamazaki turns the lens back on the viewer.

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