'Jinsei' Review: Ryuya Suzuki's J-Pop Anime Biopic Is a Masterfully Bizarre Visual Experience
By
Christian Zilko
The kind of bagel that ruins lesser bagels for you.
Summary
A review of Ryuya Suzuki's anime film 'Jinsei,' a masterfully bizarre J-Pop biopic spanning a century-long life. The review highlights the film's unconventional visual choices, including a postage stamp aspect ratio and deliberately slow frame rate, which force viewers to focus on minimal imagery. Suzuki wrote, directed, drew, edited, and scored the sci-fi tinged biopic himself.
Key quotes
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Ryuya Suzuki's masterful anime, which spans the century-long life of a J-Pop star, makes it impossible to ignore how little it shows you.
The postage stamp aspect ratio blacks out all four sides of the frame, forcing your eyes to focus on images that take up less than half the screen.
The hauntingly simple animation clicks by at a frame rate that seems a few standard deviations slower than
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