Wolf Children
2012 animated film directed by Mamoru Hosoda / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Wolf Children (Japanese: おおかみこどもの雨と雪, Hepburn: Ōkami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki, lit. 'Wolf Children: Ame and Yuki') is a 2012 Japanese animated drama film directed and co-written by Mamoru Hosoda.[2][3] The second original feature film directed by Hosoda and the first work written by him, the film stars the voices of Aoi Miyazaki, Takao Osawa, and Haru Kuroki. The story's central theme is "parent and child",[4] depicting 13 years in the life of a young woman, Hana, who falls in love with a werewolf while in college, and following his death must raise the resulting half-wolf half-human siblings, Ame and Yuki, who grow and find their own paths in life.
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Kanji | おおかみこどもの雨と雪 | ||||
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Directed by | Mamoru Hosoda | ||||
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Story by | Mamoru Hosoda | ||||
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Edited by | Shigeru Nishiyama | ||||
Music by | Masakatsu Takagi | ||||
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Distributed by | Toho | ||||
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Running time | 117 minutes | ||||
Country | Japan | ||||
Language | Japanese | ||||
Box office | $55 million[1] |
Hosoda established Studio Chizu for production. Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, of Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (1990) and Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995), designed the characters. Wolf Children had its world premiere in Paris on June 25, 2012, and was released theatrically on July 21, 2012, in Japan.[5] Funimation licenses the film for North America[6] and Manga Entertainment handles UK rights.