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The Garden of Sinners: Overlooking View

The Garden of Sinners: Overlooking View

Animation · Crime · Action · 2007

The story starts following an incident: a young girl jumps from the top of a building. The image provokes a certain dread, as the girl appears to have been a corpse even before she jumped. The case is dismissed, yet more and more of these suicides occur, and all from the same building. Thus began the rumour, that a ghost inhabited the rooftop of the building.

Movie details

The Garden of Sinners: Overlooking View

“"People do not cease to exist immediately after dying, as long as there are people who remember them."”

2007 Animation · Crime · Action 50m

Critical arithmetic

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TMDB

6.7 / 10

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The story starts following an incident: a young girl jumps from the top of a building. The image provokes a certain dread, as the girl appears to have been a corpse even before she jumped. The case is dismissed, yet more and more of these suicides occur, and all from the same building. Thus began the rumour, that a ghost inhabited the rooftop of the building.

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Ei Aoki

Written by

Masaki Hiramatsu

Maaya Sakamoto

Maaya Sakamoto

Shiki Ryougi (voice)

Kenichi Suzumura

Kenichi Suzumura

Mikiya Kokutou (voice)

Rie Tanaka

Rie Tanaka

Kirie Fujou (voice)

Takako Honda

Takako Honda

Touko Aozaki (voice)

Ayumi Fujimura

Ayumi Fujimura

Azaka Kokutou (voice)

S

Shuzo Nakamura

Announcer (voice)

Eri Nakao

Eri Nakao

Reporter (voice)

Court is in session

Put The Garden of Sinners: Overlooking View on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Arthouse Gremlin

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.