Naoko Yamada, perhaps the most well-known female anime director, and her regular collaborators find humanity amid abstract images and sounds.

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“The Colors Within” is Yamada’s first feature film for Science SARU, the anime studio known for the films of Masaaki Yuasa (“Inu-Oh,” “The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl”) and its ...

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