The Case of Hana & Alice (2015)

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

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)

Trailer

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