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Kaze no Yō ni (2016)

Kaze no Yō ni poster
Original title
風のように
Directed by
Toshiyuki Honda
Genre
animation, drama
Country
Japan
Runtime
43 min
Rating
1.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A crowdfunded anime film adaptation of a 1960s manga. It follows a story about a young girl's emotional journey.

poeticmelancholicslow-burncontemplativegentlenostalgiclonelyatmospheric

What happens

Kaze no Yō ni (風のように) or Like the Wind is a Japanese one-shot manga by Tetsuya Chiba, published in Shojo Friend in 1969. In early 2016, Chiba began a crowdfunding campaign to raise money for an anime film adaptation. It met its goal of 2 million yen that March. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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