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Garden of Remembrance

2022 · 18 min Animation Drama
6.8 / 10 · TMDB

An untidy room. Empty beer tins, empty wine bottles, a half-empty glass of whisky... A girl is getting up absent-mindedly and starts preparing herself. YOUR morning starts. Lazy and hard-to-wake-up YOU. The emoticon is ME watching over YOU. I play tricks on YOU, while YOU are playing the guitar and drinking. One day, in town, YOU walk past THE CHILDHOOD FRIEND who is buying an Anemone I liked, and remembering that I liked them, YOU rush out to buy them. THE CHILDHOOD FRIEND displays the Anemone with care. One day, years after I died, YOU hear noise from the closet. Opened, YOU see MY garden right in front of YOU. Overflowing emotions of ME and YOU. When exiting from the room with memories, a picture of the Anemone that YOU painted is displayed in YOUR new room.

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📋 Film Details

Year 2022
Country Japan
Genre Animation, Drama
Director Naoko Yamada
Runtime 18 min.
Rating TMDB: 6.8/10 (5 votes)

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🎬 MovieFinder's Take

The director constructs a narrative on the subtle contrast between physical clutter and digital memory, using animation to visualize the intangible. It explores the dialogue between the living and the departed, relying on metaphors like emojis and flowers to examine how grief resides in everyday objects.

What lingers after viewing is a quiet, piercing meditation on connection, loss, and how memory becomes a garden within us. The film leaves a sense of luminous sorrow and the understanding that loved ones live on in our simple gestures. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Naoko Yamada

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Watch in a quiet, contemplative evening setting to fully absorb its melancholic pace.

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