Animation

Family

Drama

Fantasy

おおかみこどもの雨と雪

Studio Chizu

Madhouse

Nippon Television Network Corporation

KADOKAWA Shoten

D.N. Dream Partners

Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation

TOHO

Japan

日本語

Wolf Children

Haru Kuroki

Yukito Nishii

Aoi Miyazaki

Takao Osawa

Momoka Ohno

Amon Kabe

Takuma Hiraoka

Megumi Hayashibara

Tadashi Nakamura

Tamio Ohki

Tomie Kataoka

Hajime Inoue

Shota Sometani

Taichi Masu

Kumiko Aso

Bunta Sugawara

Takashi Kobayashi

Mitsuki Tanimura

Yasuko Egawa

Yui Fujimaki

Natsumi Watanabe

Mamoru Hosoda

Shigeru Nishiyama

Hiroshi Ohno

Takuya Ito

Yuichiro Saito

Satoko Okudera

Anri Jojo

Kotaro Tamura

Yoko Suzuki

Naomi Kasugai

Daisuke Iga

Ryo Horibe

Hiromi Takahashi

Takashi Watanabe

Aya Suzuki

Seiji Okuda

Hideki Hamasu

Takaaki Yamashita

Justin Cook

Yasuyuki Konno

Yuji Ikeda

Junko Ina

Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Fumie Kawamata

Naruyo Kiriyama

Fumihiro Hirai

Izumi Murakami

Yuka Saito

Tetsuro Karai

Hiroyuki Okada

Ayako Aihara

Katsushi Aoki

Shigeru Fujita

Kenji Hachizaki

Hwang Hye-sook

Ryoko Ina

Toshiyuki Inoue

Eri Koshika

Yoriko Matsumori

Mikiko Matsumoto

Haruka Saijou

Asami Saito

Hiroyasu Asami

Gen Fukunaga

Chiharu Hashimoto

Eriko Ikekami

Yoshio Obara

Yukiko Kakita

Kim Jin-Kyung

Kim Min-jung

Atsuko Ito

Yoshio Takada

Katsufumi Haryu

Mika Kinoshita

Jun Ono

Osamu Mikasa

Emi Hayasaka

Sayaka Hirahara

Mina Nakayama

Hidenori Ueki

Yusuke Ishihara

Yoshiyuki Sadamoto

Hisako Saitou

Han Myeong-Sun

Kazuyuki Hashimoto

Natsuko Inohara

Tadashi Sakazaki

Nozomu Takahashi

Yoko Chiba

Yuina Iitsuka

Kim Soo-jeong

Hiroshi Moriwaki

Minami Ichikawa

Suzuko Fujimoto

Yumi Ishii

Aya Ito

Ken Hironaka

Genki Kawamura

Satoshi Mashida

Kaori Hino

Hiromi Ishigami

Hiroko Minowa

Emiko Okui

Shinichirou Inoue

Yoshio Harisaki

Nobutake Ito

Kim Mi-Jeong

Satoko Nakamura

Minori Nishita

Park Se-na

Satsuki Kamoi

Masako Ogasawara

Kazutaka Ozaki

Masako Nakazato

Tomoko Yamazaki

Young-Hyae Yoo

Ritsuki Miyamoto

The movie is beautifully animated and an emotional Rollercoaster ride.
Topped only by the excellent Soundtrack by Takagi Masakatsu.

Andres Gomez

A modern approach to the myth of the wolverine in the wolf extincted Japan.

The animation is really fantastic, specially the background staging.

The story is interesting and is quite touching the struggle of the mother to raise her children but at some point it becomes a bit boring for lack of rythm.

CinemaSerf

“Hana” is one of those kindly people who wants to help out, so when she encounters a quiet young man who seems to be gatecrashing their lectures, she offers to share her books with him and pretty soon they are an item, living together and have two children “Yuki” and “Ame”. She (and we) know that he has quite an unique secret that comes in handy when they needed a nice pheasant for dinner, but when he is found dead in a storm drain, not only must she bring up the two children on her meagre savings, but move to somewhere where her children - who have inherited their father’s quirk - can be more relaxed than they can be in a city full of scrutinising eyes. She finds them a remote and ramshackle house which they have fun renovating and as the kids grow up, “Yuki” finds it easier to relate to her school friends whilst “Abe” suddenly turns a maturity corner and begins to yearn for a wilder life in the mountains. Money is still very tight and so “Hana” must rely on her own toil in their fields as well as help from the kindly neighbours - bit all whilst still keeping her children’s dual identity as under wraps as possible. An altercation at school sees “Yuki” lose the plot with  new pupil “Sôhei” and that changes the family’s dynamic and with “Abe” becoming less and less interested in his human persona, “Hana” faces some visceral maternal choices that challenge the very essence of nature and nurture, true love and dedication. The animation is entertainingly and finely drawn with plenty of playful mischief throughout and the story is powerfully imbued with three characters who exude something really quite enigmatic. There is a darkness to the latter stages of the plot, but even that is a natural evolution that epitomises the powers of instinct - even when they seemingly are pitched against each other, or when it causes conflict amongst people who care deeply for each other. The fear of the unknown, of the rumour-mongers, the superstitious and the value of trust are all explored a little here, too, and the conclusion is heart-rending but somehow a symbol of progress for them all. 

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Aoi Miyazaki

Takao Osawa

Momoka Ohno

Amon Kabe

Takuma Hiraoka

Megumi Hayashibara

Tadashi Nakamura

Tamio Ohki

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