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Aka Medaka

2015 · 145 min TV Movie Drama Comedy
7.8 / 10 · TMDB

A woman, whose existence has settled into a dull, predictable rhythm, wakes to find her world literally bleeding into shades of red. It's not a metaphor; her reality's color palette has shifted, transforming her gray routine into a chaotic carnival of crimson. She must navigate this chromatic chaos to understand if it's a curse, a gift, or a symptom of something fractured within her own psyche. Her neighbors, her job, her morning coffee—all become pieces of a surreal puzzle where comedy springs from the absurdity of the situation, and drama from the struggle to maintain sanity in a world that refuses to stay the color it's supposed to be.

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Original Title 赤めだか
Year 2015
Country Japan
Genre TV Movie, Drama, Comedy
Director Hideta Takahata
Runtime 145 min.
Rating TMDB: 7.8/10 (13 votes)

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This TV movie is a clever, low-key exploration of perception, using its high-concept premise to ground a story about emotional reawakening. The comedy is dry and situational, stemming from the protagonist's deadpan reactions to an increasingly bizarre world.

What lingers after the screen fades is a quiet curiosity about the filters through which we view our own lives. The charm lies in its modest execution of a grand idea. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Hideta Takahata

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A surreal normality painted with a jarring, persistent crimson filter.

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