© 2012 “WOLF CHILDREN” FILM PARTNERS

PRESENTS
NIPPON EIGA SERIES PART 30

ANA is proud to support NYICFF 2013

US CONTINENTAL PREMIERE OF

WOLF CHILDREN

with special guest appearance by director Mamoru Hosoda

Japan | 2012 | 117 min. | 35mm | Japanese with English Subtitles

 

*Children 9 years and up are invited and welcome to attend (with parental accompaniment)*

Date/Time: Sunday, March 10 Doors 10:30AM, Film 11:00AM
Venue: IFC Center : 323 Avenue of the Americas, NYC

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The brilliant third feature from Mamoru Hosoda, whose “Summer Wars” and “The Girl Who Leapt Through Time” have established him as one of the world’s top creative forces in animation.

Voice casts: Aoi Miyazaki for Hana (“Tenchi: The Samurai Astronomer”), Takao Osawa for Wolf man (“Crying Out Love, In The Center Of The World”), Megumi Hayashibara (“Evangelion””Pokemon”)

STORY

One day Hana spies a mysterious outcast sitting in on her college lecture and decides to follow him. A romance ensues, and when it turns out her new beau is part wolf, she is accepting (and maybe even a little attracted to the idea). Before long Hana gives birth to two children, Ame (Rain) and Yuki (Snow), rambunctious bundles of joy who transform into wolves when excited and whose little ears are as adorable as their fangs are sharp.

When they are suddenly left without a father, Hana does her best to raise her changeling children on her own, but it’s no easy task. While normal children struggle with teething and tantrums, Ame and Yuki grow fur, howl, and destroy furniture – and it isn’t long before the neighbors begin to notice their wolf-like tendencies. In order to maintain the family secret, Hana escapes to the country, turning a dilapidated farmhouse into a loving home – nested within the lush landscape of a verdant Japanese hillside – where each child is free to pursue its wolfish and human sides. Brimming with Hosoda’s trademark visual splendor, Wolf Children is his most emotionally resonant film to date, a stunningly animated and heart-felt fable about growing up, growing apart, and the choices faced along the way.

 

MESSAGE FROM DIRECTOR

To the children, a movie like a delightful, fun fairy tale…
To the youth, to make raising children, which they have yet to experience, seem full of surprises and wonder…
And to the parents, to let them reminisce about their children’s growth…
I am striving to make an invigorating movie that satisfies the principles of entertainment.

– Mamoru Hosoda / Director, screenwriter, author of original story

 

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