Children Who Chase Lost Voices (2011)
A journey to say goodbye.
The film centers on Asuna, a young girl who spends her solitary days listening to the mysterious music emanating from the crystal radio she received from her late father as a memento. One day while walking home she is attacked by a fearsome monster and saved by a mysterious boy named Shun. However, Shun disappears and Asuna embarks on a journey of adventure to the land of Agartha with her teacher Mr. Morisaki to meet a Shun again. Through her journey she comes to know the cruelty and beauty of the world, as well as loss.
Children Who Chase Lost Voices keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing grief, death, afterlife, memory, journey.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Also bends a rule of reality
Other films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.
Talk to Me (2023)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Frankenweenie (2012)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Flight 7500 (2014)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)alters at E6 · same rung · rigorous
Wendell & Wild (2022)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Shaun of the Dead (2004)alters at E6 · same rung · looseSame people
Shared director or cast.
