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Requiem For Romance

Jonathan Ng · Canada · Drama / Romance / Action / Animation · 7 min · ♥︎ 4.9K

A couple's tense phone call about distance, tradition and art unfolds as a kung fu duel, painted in the style of 1950s Shanghai water-ink animation.

A breakup phone call reimagined as a gorgeous water-ink kung fu duel, where every word lands like a blow.

In this "crouching love, hidden breakup" story, inspired by 50's Shanghai water ink animation & kung fu films, themes of distance, tradition, art and longing dominate a telephonic conversation.

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