The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
2013 · Animation · Isao Takahata · 2h 17m
A bamboo cutter finds a tiny girl inside a stalk, and she grows fast into a young woman his new fortune turns into a lady of the capital. Drawn like a brush painting, and gentle for most of its length.
- Clearly fantastic
- Clearly slow
- Clearly character-driven
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The Shape of Water
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- Strongly fantastic
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Life of Pi
83% alike
2012 · Adventure
A boy from a zoo-owning family in India ends up adrift in a lifeboat in the Pacific with a Bengal tiger, telling the story years later to a writer. Long stretches of just the boat, the boy and the animal.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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The Life of Chuck
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Three chapters, told back to front, about an ordinary accountant named Chuck: the first opens with billboards thanking him for 39 great years while the world falls apart. Each part is a completely different mood.
- Clearly character-driven
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