The Wonderland (2019)

Original title

バースデー・ワンダーランド

Directed by

Keiichi Hara

Genre

fantasy film, family film, adventure film, coming-of-age film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 55m

Rated

6

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 104 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A shy girl receives a strange birthday gift that transports her to a fantastical land. There she must help a young alchemist save the world from a spreading desert.

whimsicaladventurousdreamlikegentlecolorfulhopefulimaginativelighthearted

What happens

The Wonderland, known in Japan and the UK as Birthday Wonderland (Japanese: バースデー・ワンダーランド, Hepburn: Bāsudē Wandārando), is a 2019 Japanese animated coming-of-age fantasy adventure film directed by Keiichi Hara. Based on the 1988 children's story Chikashitsu Kara no Fushigi na Tabi (Strange Journey from the Basement) by Sachiko Kashiwaba, it stars Mayu Matsuoka, Anne Watanabe and Kumiko Aso. The characters were designed by Ilya Kuvshinov. It premiered in Japan on April 26, 2019, and was screened in competition at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in June 2019. It was the final Japanese film to be released in the Heisei era, five days before the 2019 Japanese imperial transition. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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