Pale Cocoon
2005 23m movie Film Japan

Pale Cocoon

ペイル・コクーン

Synopsis

ペイル・コクーン

In the far future when the continuity of the history has been lost, humans live in an ever more deteriorating completely artificial and enclosed world. The sea and the sky have disappeared, and the only window to "living" scenery exists in the records from the past, excavated in the relic.The Bureau of Record Excavation is an organization responsible for this task. Ura works for the 92nd office of the bureau. He is absorbed by the restoration of various records and fascinated by world of the past. Riko keeps a little distance to watch him, but averts her eyes from the records, believing that sometimes people just want things to stay the same.Everyone in this world knows that to know the past means to know the misery of this world, the present reality. But one day, Ura restores a strange video…

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The 2000s Japan Landscape

Catalog density by release year in the 2000s. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Pale Cocoon premiered. 1020 total titles in this decade from Japan.

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Reception Benchmarks

6.5
TMDB Rating
57
Audience Reviews
Well Received
Critical Tier

Ranked #3,102 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (32nd percentile by TMDB audience score).

Rating is -0.4 points below the Japan average of 6.9/10.

Among Japan Animation productions specifically: #1,975 of 2,532 (top 78%).

Production Details

Primary Country Japan
Original Language Japanese
Production Companies STUDIO RIKKA, Directions
Runtime 23m
Release Date October 29, 2005
IMDb tt1506448

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