Magical Girl

Magical Girl

Be careful what you wish for.

2014127 min7.3 / 10

A dark, melancholic thriller about a father's desperate love for his dying daughter, which pulls him into moral compromise and urban violence.

The father of a terminally ill girl is determined to grant his daughter's last wish, a ridiculously expensive collectors' costume from a Japanese TV series. The request will drive him into a journey within his city's dark underbelly.

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