Wolf Children Ame and Yuki (2012)

Original title

おおかみこどもの雨と雪

Directed by

Mamoru Hosoda

Genre

drama film, fantasy film, children's film, coming-of-age film, supernatural anime

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 57m

Rated

PG

Rating

8.2 of 10 from 2,499 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman named Hana falls in love with a werewolf and they have two children. After his death, she raises their shape-shifting children Ame and Yuki alone in the countryside as they grow up and discover who they want to become.

tenderbittersweetgentleintrospectiveheartfeltearthyquietwhimsical

What happens

Wolf Children (Japanese: おおかみこどもの雨と雪, Hepburn: Ōkami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki; lit. 'Wolf Children: Ame and Yuki') is a 2012 Japanese animated drama film directed and co-written by Mamoru Hosoda. The second original feature film directed by Hosoda and the first work written by him, the film stars the voices of Aoi Miyazaki, Takao Osawa, and Haru Kuroki. The story's central theme is "parent and child", depicting 13 years in the life of a young woman, Hana, who falls in love with a werewolf while in college, and following his death must raise the resulting half-werewolf half-human children, Ame and Yuki, who grow and find their own paths in life. Hosoda established Studio Chizu for production. Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, of Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (1990) and Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995), designed the characters. Wolf Children had its world premiere in Paris on June 25, 2012, and was released theatrically on July 21, 2012, in Japan. Funimation, then later GKIDS licenses the film for North America and Manga Entertainment handles UK rights. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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