Hash Import 2026 05 18 12 34

Look Back (2024)

★★★★★ — Look Back (2024)

Look Back is a 58-minute animated feature adapted from Tatsuki Fujimoto's 2021 one-shot manga of the same name, published in Weekly Shonen Jump to considerable acclaim (Fujimoto is best known internationally as the creator of Chainsaw Man). The film marks the feature debut of Kiyotaka Oshiyama, a longtime animator and key animator at Studio Ponoc and Khara, making this a notably modest production from Studio Durian, a relatively new outfit. Despite its short runtime and limited theatrical release model, the film earned over twelve million dollars worldwide, a strong result for a single-chapter adaptation without a franchise behind it. It arrived during a period of renewed international appetite for standalone animated features outside the Ghibli tradition.

The nod to Butterly Effect is so perfect. Best animated movie I've ever seen. I'm giving it 5*. Up there for best films I've EVER watched. It's just over an hour long. Amazon prime. The soundtrack is absolutely fucking unreal. The artwork is nothing short of stunning. There's also a poster in the background for "Butterfly Effect" which I think is a criminally underrated movie and that's a definite deliberate nod based on how the story plays out. I'm telling you... it's the best anime I've ever seen.

Rating: ★★★★★ | Year: 2024 | Watched: 2025-04-26

View on Letterboxd →

Where to watch (UK)

Stream: Amazon Prime Video · Amazon Prime Video with Ads
Physical: Amazon UK

Affiliate disclosure: Movies With Macca may earn a small commission on purchases or subscriptions started via these links. It costs you nothing extra.

Related on Movies With Macca

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

Don Siegel’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) arrived at a strange crossroads in American cinema: too modest to be a prestige picture, too unsettling to be a forgettable B-movie. Adapted from Jack Finney’s serialised novel The Body Snatchers and shot at Allied Artists on a budget barely

Fantastic Planet (1973)

René Laloux’s Fantastic Planet (1973) is one of those films that doesn’t really fit anywhere: too cerebral for kids, too odd for animation festivals, too steeped in European political theory for the Saturday-morning slot, and too visually fearless to ignore. A 72-minute French–Czech co-production designed by the

Viy (1967)

Viy (1967) is a strange and almost solitary object in Soviet cinema: a horror film, an actual horror film with monsters and demons and supernatural set-pieces, in a national cinema that mostly didn’t make horror at all. Officially endorsed by Mosfilm and based on a Nikolai Gogol folktale, it

Alice in Wonderland (1951)

Disney’s Alice in Wonderland (1951) is the studio’s middle-period work par excellence: technically polished, commercially tested, narratively cautious, and just slightly off. Made between two of Disney’s commercial successes (Cinderella in 1950, which had rescued the studio from one of its periodic financial near-misses, and Peter Pan

Read more

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

Fantastic Planet (1973)

Viy (1967)

Alice in Wonderland (1951)