Hana and Alice (2004) poster
2004 · drama · youth · romance · comedy

Hana and Alice

Directed by Shunji Iwai2h 15m2004
ElsewhereIMDb7.25kTMDB7.0138
  • warm
  • gentle
  • tender
  • intimate
Movie DNA

Warm, steady, gentle drama / youth, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Two teenage best pals attracted to the same boy end up scrambling his life after he walks into a door and is knocked unconscious.

Our read · Hana and Alice (2004) reads as a warm, steady, grounded drama · youth · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want charming Japanese high school friendship and first love complications.

ends warmyou’ll be fine aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 8attention 2/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightSkip if you need fast plots or dislike teen romance with subtitles.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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