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The Case of Hana & Alice (2015)

The Case of Hana & Alice poster
Original title
花とアリス殺人事件
Directed by
Shunji Iwai
Genre
drama film, teen film
Country
Japan
Runtime
1h 38m
Rated
PG
Rating
7.3 of 10 from 173 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A teenage girl moves to a new town and gets drawn into a strange rumor about a murder. She meets a classmate and they form a friendship while investigating the mystery.

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What happens

The Case of Hana & Alice (Japanese: 花とアリス殺人事件, Hepburn: Hana to Arisu Satsujin Jiken; lit. "Hana and Alice's Murder Case") is a Japanese rotoscoped youth drama film written, directed, edited, co-scored and co-produced by Shunji Iwai. It is the prequel to Iwai's 2004 live-action film Hana and Alice. The film was released on February 20, 2015. A manga adaptation by Dowman Sayman was serialized on Shogakukan's Yawaraka Spirits web magazine from February 16 to July 27, 2015. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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