Jinsei (無名の人生, Ryuya Suzuki, 2025)

Jinsei (無名の人生, Ryuya Suzuki, 2025)

A man goes by many names before he dies. The hero of Ryuya Suzuki’s almost entirely self-produced anime Jinsei (無名の人生, Mumei no Jinsei) never tells us his name. He doesn’t say anything much at all, but passively allows himself to be called whatever others call him while struggling to come to terms with the death of his mother and continually looking for new forms of family along with a place he can really call their own. Indeed, in the wordless …