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.
2 November 1985, Clifton, Texas, USA
8 October 1990, Grand Saline, Texas, USA
29 March 1961, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
June 18, 1990 in Osaka, Japan
17 June 1978, Sanbu-gun, Chiba, Japan
1 February 1981, Houston, Texas, USA
19 April 1971, San Angelo, Texas, USA
20 June 1979, Dallas, Texas, USA
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 22, 2013
The detailed Ghibli-esque visuals are decent enough, but this is disappointingly bland.
October 25, 2013
Despite rigorously ripping up the conventions of werewolf lore, Mamoru Hosoda's anime fantasy unfolds with an elegance that seems effortless.
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
The film works as the simplest of fairy tales, so scrumptious you'll want to devour it whole.
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.
March 13, 2014
Awe-inspiring, tender anime tale has mature themes.
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.
September 26, 2013
Rather an odd story, told in a one-of-a-kind style that feels equal parts sentimental, somber and strange.

