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.
27 July 1986, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
24 December 1929, Aichi, Japan
27 February 1989, Harris County, Texas, USA
11 February 1978, Arlington, Texas, USA
May 22, 1986 in Tarrant County, Texas, USA
5 October 1975, Houston, Texas, USA
11 March 1968, Tokyo, Japan
12 April 1932, Houston, Texas, USA
5 January 1972, Cheverly, Maryland, USA
June 18, 1990 in Osaka, Japan
31 August 1956, Indiana, USA
2 January 1928, Tokyo, Japan
24 December 1979, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
27 January 1998, Kagoshima, Japan
9 March 1977, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
October 25, 2013
The film works as the simplest of fairy tales, so scrumptious you'll want to devour it whole.
September 26, 2013
Rather an odd story, told in a one-of-a-kind style that feels equal parts sentimental, somber and strange.
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.
October 25, 2013
A delightful family drama... For anyone who loves charming, original storytelling, it's a must.
December 11, 2013
An imaginative Japanese animation film about a resilient single mother trying to prepare her two strange children for the world.
October 22, 2013
The detailed Ghibli-esque visuals are decent enough, but this is disappointingly bland.
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.
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 24, 2013
Love between two species has rarely seemed more intense, more natural, or more ineffably sad.
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.
October 24, 2013
It's a fairytale in a real-life setting, photorealistically drawn in shifting light that rivals Monet or GTA5.
March 13, 2014
Awe-inspiring, tender anime tale has mature themes.

