User Reviews

This film features quality animation and the refreshing perspective of Japanese characters, but is also plotless and relatively uninteresting. Not too sure what the filmmakers were aiming for with this one.

A boring, ponderous piece of beauty that makes you wish you were watching something else. Murakami fans and animation buffs will enjoy the slight pleasures here: often gorgeous art and atmospheric situations colliding in a haze of bizarre visuals. But nothing links up – the viewer has to work far too hard to piece together the “narrative”, which has no real pay-off.