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The God of Clay (2011)

The God of Clay poster
Original title
ねんどの神さま
Directed by
Koichi Kawakita
Genre
science fiction
Country
Japan
Runtime
11 min
Rating
0.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A child finds a lump of clay that comes to life. The clay creature grows larger and causes small scale mischief in a rural Japanese town.

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What happens

The God of Clay (Japanese: ねんどの神さま, Hepburn: Nendo no Kamisama) is a 2011 independently made Japanese short kaiju film initially directed by Nobuaki Sugimoto, and was completed by Koichi Kawakita and co-produced by Dream Planet Japan and Marbling Fine Arts. The film is based on the 1993 children's book of the same name by Masamoto Nasu. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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