Perhaps the only film ever to include a pub crawl, a 10 minute musical number, a natural disaster sequence, an army of cowboys fighting a crowd of politicians, a slav squad, and still somehow be pretty coherent and unironically amazing.
Directed by Masaaki Yuasa
夜は短し歩けよ乙女
A critically acclaimed, atmospheric comedy.
As a group of university students go out for a night on the town, a sophomore known only as "The Girl with Black Hair" experiences a series of surreal encounters with the local nightlife – all the while unaware of the romantic longings of "Senpai", a senior student who has been creating increasingly fantastic and contrived reasons to run into her in an effort to win her heart.
Night Is Short, Walk On Girl is showing in 1 cinema in London - next screening Wednesday 28 October at 18:20 at Barbican Centre.
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Perhaps the only film ever to include a pub crawl, a 10 minute musical number, a natural disaster sequence, an army of cowboys fighting a crowd of politicians, a slav squad, and still somehow be pretty coherent and unironically amazing.
Y'ALLi had the shittiest of days and watching this movie cleared my mind and probably added 10 years to my life expectancy
I want to live in Masaaki Yuasa's wacky incomprehensible gorgeous life-affirming world
It follows a young university woman experiencing an eccentric, alcohol-fueled night of adventures across town, unaware that a smitten senior is engineering elaborate coincidences to cross paths with her.
It was directed by Masaaki Yuasa in 2017, renowned for his distinctively fluid and imaginative animation style.
It won the Animation of the Year award at the 41st Japan Academy Film Prize.
