EPISODE
Wolf Children
The movie covers 13 years and begins with a 19-year-old college student named Hana who encounters and falls in 'fairy tale-like' love with a 'wolf man.' After her husband dies in an accident, Hana moves to the rural countryside where her husband grew up to raise her two werewolf children.
28 April 1974, Grand Prairie, Texas, USA
24 December 1929, Aichi, Japan
17 March 1978, Riverside, California, USA
21 August 1990, Hawaii, USA
29 March 1961, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
13 April 1980, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
2 November 1944, Chiba, Japan
5 October 1975, Houston, Texas, USA
31 October 1973, Los Angeles, California, USA
4 April 1984, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
2 January 1928, Tokyo, Japan
1 February 1981, Houston, Texas, USA
October 25, 2013
The film works as the simplest of fairy tales, so scrumptious you'll want to devour it whole.October 24, 2013
Love between two species has rarely seemed more intense, more natural, or more ineffably sad.October 24, 2013
It's a fairytale in a real-life setting, photorealistically drawn in shifting light that rivals Monet or GTA5.December 11, 2013
An imaginative Japanese animation film about a resilient single mother trying to prepare her two strange children for the world.October 25, 2013
A delightful family drama... For anyone who loves charming, original storytelling, it's a must.March 13, 2014
Awe-inspiring, tender anime tale has mature themes.October 25, 2013
Despite rigorously ripping up the conventions of werewolf lore, Mamoru Hosoda's anime fantasy unfolds with an elegance that seems effortless.October 22, 2013
The detailed Ghibli-esque visuals are decent enough, but this is disappointingly bland.February 20, 2014
A stunningly beautiful, unabashedly sentimental, and surprisingly complex story that works as both a coming-of-age film and a study of the trials of being a single mother.December 15, 2013
The film towers over all the Hollywood animated films about ogres, monsters, and archfiends like Mount Everest over an ants' nest. Japanese animation at its pinnacle.November 17, 2014
Silence abounds; the wordless sequences are stunning. There are a few schmaltzy, sloppy-sappy moments, but the attention to Romantic-poetry detail is sublime. Rarely has maternity, or maturity, been shown with such poetic force on-screen.September 26, 2013
Rather an odd story, told in a one-of-a-kind style that feels equal parts sentimental, somber and strange.