The Monkey and the Crab (1972)

Genre

Fantasy

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This is an adaptation of an old Japanese folk tale about a crab and a monkey. The monkey tricks the crab out of a rice ball but later the crab's hard work with an apricot seed leads to a confrontation. The story shows what happens when one character is selfish and the other seeks fairness.

fairy-taleretromoralisticslow-pacedwhimsicalfolkloricclassicinnocentdidactic

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• More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.