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Wolf Children

Ookami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki

2012

Mamoru Hosoda

Animation

7.6

8,037

Animation. Drama. Fantasy Hana is a 19-year-old student who falls in a "fairy-tale like" love with a "wolf man". Over the course of the 13-year story Hana gives birth to two children - older sister Yuki, and younger brother Ame, or "Snow and Rain". At first the family quietly lives in the city trying to hide their wolf heritage, but when the "wolf man" suddenly dies Hana makes the decision to move to a rural town, far from their previous city life.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Jennifer Tate View London	"With its strikingly beautiful visuals and intensely emotional core, Wolf Children is an engaging and visually arresting Japanese anime that carefully tackles an original storyline with confident sophistication."	POS
United Kingdom	Chris Michael The Guardian	"Lycanthropy becomes a metaphor for puberty in this photorealistically drawn, touching animation that beats Twilight at its own game (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Trevor Johnston Time Out	"The detailed Ghibli-esque visuals are decent enough, but this is disappointingly bland."	NEU
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"The movie is hauntingly romantic at heart, in the best spirit of a Gothic fairytale, but without the harsh shadows or hard edges (...) Score: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"Rather an odd story, told in a one-of-a-kind style that feels equal parts sentimental, somber and strange."	POS
United Kingdom	Charlotte O'Sullivan London Evening Standard	"The film works as the simplest of fairy tales, so scrumptious you'll want to devour it whole."	POS
United Kingdom	Chris Michael The Guardian	"Telling the story through the eyes of the harried, bereaved but indomitable mother gives this calm, funny, only occasionally schmaltzy family film a maturity Twilight never reached."	POS
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"Wolf Children is rather an odd story, told in a one-of-a-kind style that feels equal parts sentimental, somber and strange."	POS

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