Ayu Kitaura, Carolina Kaneda, Eiko Koike

Two aging women are unwittingly drawn into a mysterious drama of supernatural proportions when they return home to find a young girl knitting a red sweater in their house. The plot thickens when she f...( read more  read more... )inishes the garment -- and promptly unravels it. This award-winning fantasy from Japanese filmmaker Mai Tominaga blends elements of animation, live action and puppetry to tell a haunting and chilling tale about the nature of humanity.

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Directed by: Mai Tominaga

Release Date: January 1, 2006

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DVD Release Date: December 4, 2007

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  • June 14, 2009
    confusing as hell.liked it very much but very confusing
  • January 31, 2009
    very beautiful film. Also very strange film
  • December 14, 2008
    WIDESCREEN. Interesante, bastante satisfactoria en su rareza y, sobre todo, gana muchos puntos por su originalidad y su dirección de arte. / Interesting, quite satisfactory in its weirdness and, above all, earns many points for its originality and its art direction.
  • July 5, 2008
    What is it with Japanese films being ridiculous? You don't ever see films like this in Hollywood. That is probably because Hollywood would never let it hit the big screen.

    You better read the plot before watching this because a lot of this film will not make sense. In the ba

    ...( read more)ck of your mind you really feel as if there is some great concept and meaning to the story, but unless you dig down deep enough, or you know the director personally, you will not be able to figure it out. It is a shame really, since the animated introduction does a good job at getting you rolling with the film. As the movie moves forward you also get the feeling that multiple stories are being told at once.

    On another note, more then half of this film deals with only 3 characters and all 3 of them have little dialogue. In fact, this entire movie has little dialogue. So this a movie with little dialogue that is really confusing, yet I still consider it better than average.

    It is the directing that really saves this film. Director, Mai Tominaga, shows her genius with her first feature length picture. It really does look like EVERY SINGLE SHOT is thoroughly thought out. The films uses some CG effects and the transitions from real life to these animations are smooth. The film also employs a catchy jazzy soundtrack and some nice sounds. Ayu Kitaura's amplified voice sounds awesome. "Damn. I have to knit it all over again!"

    The acting is great, and I can guess we can thank the directing for that. As I mentioned before, the characters do have very little lines, but that barely hurts this film.

    There is just something about this flick that keeps you watching. If only the story made more sense.

  • June 9, 2008
    So apparently there are these two old ladies who live in a mansion that they have completely covered in other peoples thrown away things. Then, this crazy naked chick come along and becomes obsessed with knitting which reminds the two old women of why they live alone and why they...( read more) have never had a social life outside their house.

    For the most part this movie makes little sense, but the ending is fascinating as you try to place all the puzzles pieces together. Also, the vibrancy of the red yarn was beautiful to look at.

    So were the creative scenes where Knit-Again destroyed all of thier objects insides the house that had come to life.

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