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“Sanrio's surreal 70s jazz film: dog loves rose, battles crow, mixes cartoon action with tragic grimness.”
Bara no Hana to Joe
バラの花とジョー
5.7
12,186 rank · 1,463 viewers · 5 favorites
Drama
Kids
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Synopsis
Sanrio's surreal 70s jazz film: dog loves rose, battles crow, mixes cartoon action with tragic grimness.
It's a Sanrio picture that feels partly like an anime art film and partly like a Warner Bros. cartoon. The film features some very creative imagery, a groovy 70's jazz score, and very little spoken dialogue. It's a story about a dog named Joe that falls in love with a rose and protects it from a mean-spirited crow. There's some energetic Friz Freleng style action, and also some unexpectedly grim tragedy. (Source: animenation.net)
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Derived from 2 sampled reviews
5.5
/10
What 2 viewers settled on.
50%
recommend
Score distribution
median 5.5
mode 4
σ 1.50
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.50 · some divergence
The polarity gap
3.0 pts
Recommenders 7.0 · others 4.0
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Score over time
↓ 1.50
Running avg · Mar 2018 → Dec 2018
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· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “Hence there's no review for this short, obscure movie I've decided to write one myself, perhaps this might help other users decide whether or not to watch it themselves. This is a fairly old film...”
- 4 “Wow, for a story based on a children's book, this is one downer of a story! The short (20 minute) anime is definitely laid out like a young children's book, with a simple story and just three...”
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Short · 50%
Medium · 50%
Long · 0%
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- Format 1 × 20′ eps × min
- Total runtime 0h 20m all episodes
- Aired Mar 1977 – ongoing
- Source Movie media type
- Rated PG Children
- Ref. BS-5670 catalog
Produced by
- Sanrio Producer