If you loved xxxHOLiC, try Helter Skelter

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 Mika Ninagawa, and they both carry the neon soaked, surreal mood tags, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to xxxHOLiC, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Helter Skelter is

Neon signs flicker above a Tokyo clinic’s stainless-steel door—winter, 2012. Lilico’s new face gleams under harsh makeup lights while her reflection stutters, cracks. Mika Ninagawa’s fever-dream aesthetic flattens identity into porcelain and panic.

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