HUMAN TEAR AWAY Wild Men And Wolf Children

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The story commenced with a nice love story with a little heartbreak. Then the most enjoyable parts begin with lots of laughs until the approach of the end where it brings lots of emotions before concluding with a powerful howl. It had very nice background score in all the crucial portion of the tale. In other word to say, the movie was just like what I expected and more than that.

I felt the movie was short and was not ready to accept the end. You know, it is better being short and sweet than with unnecessary drag in a tale. This is a movie that everyone will love, especially kids and families.

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Like I said if you are a die hard 'My Neighbour Totoro' movie fan then you must not miss it. So highly recommended by me. This movie was incredibly well done. In my opinion, aside from the supernatural aspects of the characters themselves, this is a very real and down to earth story about a mother trying to raise two children who are different and the struggles she has to go through alone. I find the characters in this movie to be incredibly realistic and relatable.

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The music is great and it does not overtake any scene, but rather it adds to the mood of the scene it is required to enhance. As someone who, along with my sister was brought up practically alone by my mother, I feel that this movie also reminded me of her day to day struggle as well in terms of raising two energetic children without any outside help whatsoever. The animation is very crisp and beautiful as well. If you haven't seen this movie yet, go see it, and if you have any reservations just as I did you should go see it anyway.

This movie was one of a kind. Many anime works, including the likes of Ghibli's pieces, suffered from a few things: In my opinion, I am glad to see that this film did not become a victim to such traps. The characters, even if they are not necessarily pure human beings, are the most down-to-earth anime characters I have seen in recent times. The movie made a good decision to focus rather on the story of how the mother cope on her own, taking care of her two growing-up children under such conditions where she cannot simply request for anyone's help.

Of course, I am aware that the movie chose to take on a very optimistic approach, which could otherwise complicate things substantially. The mother was a very open-minded person; she made a few life-changing decisions that I believe not many mothers will be willing to commit to the same. How she eventually settled down in a village environment where the village neighbours seem to choose to be oblivious to her background was deemed very lucky in my opinion.

How the daughter managed to get the trust of a close classmate was also very optimistic. Overall, this is a down-to-earth gem that would be highly recommended, especially to anyone who likes cute wolves. I saw this at Reel Anime , and I was blown away. The story was really touching and emotional, the animation was beautiful and the music was really pleasing to the ear.

The voice cast was excellent with a similar movement done for Pixar movies: Balancing big names and voice actors. That includes big names in Japanese cinema: I was really surprised at how much I loved Wolf Children when I left the theatre, and it instantly became the best Japanese animated film I have seen in I immediately became a fan of Mamoru Hosoda as well. It was also the first animated film made by Studio Chizu an animation studio established by Mamoru Hosoda and it succeeds.

Excellent job, Studio Chizu and Mr Hosoda and arigatou gozaimashita. I look forward to Studio Chizu's and Mamoru Hosoda's future films. I also think of Mamoru Hosoda as Japan's equivalent to Glen Keane, who also established his own animation studio, not to mention they are both great animators. I highly recommend this film to any Japanese animation, Mamoru Hosoda, world cinema and Japanese cinema fan and I guarantee you will have the time of your life.

It is an absolute delight from start to finish! This review is about the original Japanese version with subtitles. Kicino 28 August Hana Aoi Miyazaki loves her boyfriend even though he is different from other boys. Both loners, he tells Hana it would be nice to have a family — to be welcomed when coming home, to prepare meals together and just share daily lives.

Braving possible societal prejudice, the young lovers have two children — Yuki and Ame. Unfortunately Hana has to raise them all by herself. Being a single mother is tough enough, let alone raising two special kids who are so different from others. The same predicament might exist for parents from different cultures, or different religions: Hana did not impose her opinion on them, she just wants them to be happy and have lots of space to develop into their own self.

I love the huge old house they grew up in and the way they grow their own food. But it must be very difficult as Hana did not know anything before. Perhaps the film is paying tribute to the female gender: To stay away from societal pressure, Hana works hard alone and learns to raise two special kids all by herself.

She even drew her own picture books! A very tough, very strong and very loving woman. She never gives up and always wears a smile. It may be an animation on wolf children but its theme extends far beyond that: As wolf or as human being? Why are wolf terrible? Can I be a wolf that is not terrible? Neither route is mutually exclusive, though. Hana let them live their own life. Perhaps that's eventually what parents will and should do: The artwork is excellent. Sometimes I wonder if I was looking at a photo or a video because they look so real.

The voices over are super cute. The naughty scenes make you laugh; the sad scenes of Yuki and Hana make you cry and make your heart ache. This is a movie suitable for all ages as we all have been children at one time and maybe parent at other times. It just urges us to treasure our family more. During the course of taking a flight from Japan to the States, I wanted to watch a movie to pass some of the time. Luckily enough, I chose this awesome film JAL had in their catalog. There is so many great things to say about this film that it is hard for me to even start.

The story is wonderful as it is about a young mother trying to take care of her two children on her own.

Did I mention her children have the ability to turn into wolfs on a whim? A lot of the plot centers on their family. Adapting to new environments, places, people and the whole process of growing up. Despite being in the realm of fantasy, it touches on a lot of human emotion and interaction and has top-notch voice acting. The art, animation and score are great and really just compliment an already solid film. I hope to find this on DVD sometime in the future to watch again but cannot recommend this more highly.

It would be an especially good film for children.

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Even though there may be some darker scenes, none are too over-the-top and done in a very mature and thought-provoking fashion. DustyKramKram 28 November It follows the character Hana from the time she is a year-old university student over the course of a decade or so. While in university, Hana meets a young man with whom she begins a relationship. One night while taking a walk, the young man reveals to her that he can become a wolf at will. His fingers and face quietly elongate, and his hair ever-so-gently grows until his metamorphosis comes to rest as a bipedal, anthropomorphic wolf, somewhere between man and beast.

The sex scene that follows is implied, but as the two naked silhouettes come together for a kiss and slowly descend onto the bed, you can't help but wonder why the werewolf hasn't transformed back into a human. The movie insinuates that this is the first time these two have engaged in intercourse with one another, and what it says about Hana's character i. Whether or not this is the goal, as someone who doesn't find animals sexy, it's an uncomfortable moment to watch and feels wholly out of place in this story.

The products of their repeated love-making become the titular wolf children, a girl named Yuki and her baby brother Ame.

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After a tragic hunting accident claims the life of the children's father, Hana is stuck trying to raise these kids, or perhaps tame these wild animals, alone. The father's driver's license is Hana's lone reminder of the life she once had. The genre fiction elements serve only to enhance the drama of such highs and lows. When the rambunctious Yuki throws a temper tantrum, her wolf side takes over, allowing the destructive potential of her feral characteristics to match the emotional instability of the toddler she is.

When she gets into a pack of silica gel and becomes very ill, Hana struggles with whether to take her to the hospital or the veterinary clinic. Although this particular scene plays out with a bit of a dramatic contrivance the two medical facilities are conveniently right across the street from each other , it does a good job of illustrating the difficult decisions that single parents must make for their children when they don't have a partner to consult with.

Hats off to Hosoda and his co-writer Satoko Okudera for not falling into the trap of having Hana need someone to help her raise the kids. At a turning point in the film, she decides that moving out to the countryside will be safer for everyone as the threat of Yuki and Ame's strange abilities being discovered is much more severe in the city where they were living. At this point, Hana blossoms into the strong independent character she is meant to become — cleaning up an old house, learning to farm and grow food for her and her children, and doing it all without the need for a father figure.

When a local patriarch teaches her how to make the most of her food garden, it only strengthens her resolve to raise these kids on her own. She may not know how to sow or reap, but she knows how to be a mother. We are treated to a lovely montage of passing years and growing children. The once rambunctious Yuki has become somewhat of a serious student, preferring human interaction to catching snakes and myriad wildlife. The far more reserved infant Ame has become an adult — an adult wolf, that is. He's 10 years old now and ready to go out on his own and explore his savage alter ego in the wooded mountains near his home.

Hana has issues with this, as any parent would, but the film uses this to paint a very apt analogy between Hana and real-world parents who have trouble coping with the decisions of their adult children. Hana must learn to let him go, and when she does, she becomes stronger, which is maintained as a constant theme for her character. The animation is absolutely stunning. Some of the backgrounds, especially in the city, are so impressively detailed that you wonder if they weren't painted over photographs. The simplicity of the character designs and animations almost makes them feel out of place in such a meticulously crafted world — almost.

Ultimately, everything fits together so beautifully that you hardly care when some third-act CGI threatens to visually derail the whole thing. Don't worry; it doesn't. What feels like mostly two to three piece arrangements fill Takagi Masakatsu's score with a simple, beautiful canvas for the narrative to be painted upon. The few moments of action or tension allow for brief but refreshing swells in the musical backdrop. It's a lovely soundtrack, and compliments the visuals well.

To read the rest of this review, please visit: Mamoru Hosoda has three times dazzled me with his films and has caught me in ways that other brilliant directors like him have beautiful but simple and heartfelt stories with a simple animation style that could easily rival the best CGI film out there and Wolf Children proves to be all of these and more. The simple little tale of an unusual family of a human mother with two half-wolf-children finding their way in the world and coming to terms with their nature in their own ways.

The first part of the film tells us the heartwarming tale of the woman who fell for a man she loved only to tragically lose him an accident and now having to figure out how to make due by her self and not let the world know their secret. With the first act told very simply as a love story it captivates the adult audience and sets the stage for the rest of the story to come. As the years go buy the children grow older and start to discover more about their own selves and start to change from their early childhood selves. The once aggressive and spunky Yuki takes on a more mature and graceful persona to better fit into human society but her brother Ame who started out as a timid and resentful child grows to be more in tune with nature.

The two parallel stories that take an opposite turn which makes for an unexpected change in tone but a brilliant piece of storytelling. I watched the film English dubbed from FUNimation which brings out an amazing cast including Colleen Clinkenbeard as Hana who nails her role and gives off an Oscar worthy performance. Playing the at times frustrated, panicked and love struck character of Hana she shows her incredible range of acting abilities.

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They also followed the Japanese casting choices by getting separate actors for the older and younger versions of Ame and Yuki. The entire cast could also be spoken for as they all give wonderful performances and I'm sure the same could be said for the Japanese cast.

As to be expected Hosoda gives a brilliant visual spectacle with the animation combining the old traditional hand techniques with new CGI and even motion capture techniques. The simple use of transformations for the young children over a morphing animation I thought was effective and simple be it for artistic or economic and practicality reasons. Yoshiyuki Sadamoto once again gives Hosoda his simple but effective character designs.

I found my self glued to the two hour film and constantly reminiscing on it and wanting to watch it again and again. It's a sweet and endearing film with a lot of heart the same charm of Steven Spielberg's early films and it's sure to tug on your heart strings quite a bit. It's a shame FUNimation didn't submit this for Oscar consideration because I'm sure it would have been a contender. A beautiful family film though may be a bit on the slow side for some children.

Simple flaws maybe but easily overlooked when you get into the experience. Fantastic film about growing up and living between two worlds Vartiainen 21 July Wolf Children tells the tale of two children, who have been born to a normal university female student and to a werewolf man.

From their father they inherit the ability to turn into wolves, which manifests almost immediately after their birth. Unfortunately their father dies and it quickly becomes apparent that werewolf children just cannot be brought up in the city. At least not alone. Thus their mother does the sensible, but also risky, thing and moves to the countryside to farm the land and to raise her children in peace.

From that intriguing beginning we get a beautiful film about the problems of growing up while straddling two heritages. Yuki, the older of the two children, is much more outgoing and brave, and she's at first much more comfortable with her wolf blood than her brother Ame, who's more cautious about the wolf within, but also understands it on a level that Yuki can never reach. It's a very fitting allegory and the film takes full advantage of the possibilities offered. Especially near the end the film has some absolutely beautiful and thoughtful moments when the children, now young teenagers, finally have to start making decision about which of the worlds they want to belong to.

I also have to praise the character of the mother, Hana. She's so often clearly way in over her head, but her stubbornness and constant cheerful outlook on life carry her through even the hardest periods. She's very human in how she struggles, but in the best possible way, because it's exactly her humanity that gives her strength.

Studio Madhouse's animation style is still very smooth and fluid, though I do find that their character models are a bit simplistic when you put them against lush nature backgrounds. Not really a problem, but personally I would have preferred a bit more naturalistic approach to the designs.

Wold Children is a fantastic film for all fans of anime and for those that are interested in the dichotomy between the world of beast and the world of man. TheLittleSongbird 30 November That does sound like a bold statement to make, but, while some of the first part of the film is rather rushed and the ending is inconclusive and literally begging for a few minutes longer, Wolf Children is as good a film as that. The best assets were the animation and the way the story is handled.

The animation is absolutely fantastic, always have liked the anime style and Wolf Children is one of the best recent examples. The colours are both atmospheric and beautifully gentle, never bold or in your face but intimate-looking without being too twee-looking, while the backgrounds are exquisitely detailed and the characters move expressively.

The story may sound simple and twee reading the plot-line but is actually none of those things. It fills the running time almost perfectly and uses some very mature and relatable themes dealing with them in a way that's sensitive and beyond its years while also making it accessible for a wider audience a quite difficult thing to do and Wolf Children does this better than most animated films. Not only this, but it is very emotionally powerful as well, plenty of scenes are cute but a lot of it is either charming or heart-wrenching without making it too dark.

The script is pretty much the same, it doesn't ever sound childish nor does it sound over-complicated or preachy considering the themes tackled these were and are very easy traps , none of it is enough to completely go over children's heads neither is any of it dumbed-down-sounding to adults.

I always look out for good music in a film, as a very keen musician and as someone studying classical singing. Wolf Children does have a good music score, no, a great music score, gentle and ethereal mostly but also with some rhythmically driven parts too, matching what's going on nuance for nuance.

The characters are adorable but not in a sickly way while also engaging and distinct in personality, they are flawed but also easy to identify with. The voice work is beautifully delivered too and fit the characters and their personalities very well. Overall, a beautiful film that is almost as good as the best of Studio Ghibli. Call of the Wild tieman64 27 May Mamoru Hosoda directs "Wolf Children". His most conventional feature, the film begins as a hormonal fantasy in which 19 year old Hana meets, falls in love with and is impregnated by a young man who also happens to be a wolf.

After some casual bestiality, and the death of her furry lover, the film develops into a interesting family drama. Here Hana, now a single mom, struggles to raise her two half-breed children. For all its fantastical elements, "Wolf Children" is a fairly dour and depressing drama. Themes of acceptance, letting go and peer pressure come and go, but mostly Hosoda seems interested in sketching the troubles of a young widower; he accomplishes this well.

At times beautifully animated, the film's opening act is rushed, and overloads on narration and montages. I'm a librarian, so as the only animefan librarian in the library I work at, I'm basically in charge of watching the movies and categorizing the movies after. I was surprised that I actually extremely enjoyed this movie. I laughed, I cried, and it gave me a warm-fuzzy feeling that good movies should!

Before this movie, I was only into Studio Ghibli anime movies, but this movie has encouraged me to "spread my wings" and diversify my chose in movies. Before this movie, I didn't. It's also nice to be inspired by a movie! My only problem with this movie was the rating. It was classified as "PG" when it should have been "PG". There were a few "damn"s and an S-bomb. Plus, there's breastfeeding I don't have a problem with it, but I can understand the sensitivity of it to others.

Some scenes were extremely intense, which could easily distress a young child. I also enjoyed that only 1 of the 4 main characters did not vomit somewhere throughout this movie. In conclusion, if you want to watch a "feel good" movie about finding your calling and being true to yourself that will make your emotions shake and leave you inspired, I HIGHLY suggest you watch this movie.

I just never had much incentive to seek out Japanese animation, which is odd for one who adores the medium. Despite this, I wanted to check out "Wolf Children. I could barely keep my eyes off the screen, for what I saw was a wonderfully simple film of what is something so complex and bizarre. Its design is so quaint, yet so artistic. Much like Brad Bird did with "Ratatouille," Momaru Hosoda manages to take a very odd concept, and transform it into an involving, moving and ironically real experience.

The unnamed man, who I will refer to as Wolf Man, has the ability to transform into a full wolf at will. He has found an accepting person in Hana, who loves him and his lupine ways, and the two move into a small flat, and have two children; Yuki, born on a snowy day, and Ame, born on a rainy day.

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Add your rating See all 14 parent reviews. Add your rating See all 16 kid reviews. Only part human, the man she loves is the last remaining honcho wolf thought to be extinct for more than a hundred years. Hana accepts the Wolf Man's occasional "transformation," and their wondrous romance produces two adorable children, Yuki and Ame. Soon, however, while Ame is still an infant, tragedy intervenes and Hana faces life and parenting on her own. Once Hana realizes that Yuki and Ame are truly their father's children and hover between their human forms and their wild animal selves, she faces the truth and tries to keep them as safe, happy, and loved as possible.

Moving far from the city, with the spirit of the Wolf Man to guide her, Hana uses every resource at hand to provide a full life for her children as they grow and try to make their way. But, for a family in which the kids are not fully human, growing up inevitably becomes a challenge that must be met with resolve, empathy, grace, and, ultimately, great sacrifice.

From the moment the lyrical music begins and the buoyant Hana is introduced, this movie has you in its thrall. Alternately romantic, funny, poignant, suspenseful, and sad, the film and its characters Hana, Yuki, and Ame can't help but touch the heart. The visuals a perfect combination of hand drawing and computer animation are awe-inspiring: Scenes in the wild are vivid and exciting; the half-human, half-wolf children are charming; and the Japanese settings are gently beautiful. Families can discuss the filmmakers' attitude toward nature, represented here by wolves.

How did the movie enrich your understanding of wild creatures and the worlds in which they live? Look up "fable," "fairy tale," "myth," and "legend. How did you feel about Ame's ultimate decision? How did the filmmakers prepare you, as well as Hana and Yuki, for Ame's choice? Common Sense Media's unbiased ratings are created by expert reviewers and aren't influenced by the product's creators or by any of our funders, affiliates, or partners. See how we rate.

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