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CHILDREN OF THE SEA

KAIJU NO KODOMO

By Ayumu WATANABE

STUDIO4C CO., LTD - as PROD / FIN

Fantasy - Completed 2019

Fest. Animation Annecy - MIFA 2019

Contrechamp

Rotterdam IFF 2020

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- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Fantasy, Family, Animation
- Countries
- JAPAN
- Languages
- JAPANESE
- Duration
- 111 mn
- Director(s)
- Ayumu WATANABE
- Cast
- Mana ASHIDA, Hiiro ISHIBASHI, Goro INAGAKI, Yu AOI, Sumiko FUJI, Seishu URAGAMI
- Producer(s)
- Eiko TANAKA (STUDIO4℃)
- Synopsis
- Children of the Sea is the latest feature from Japan’s STUDIO4°C (known for Tekkonkinkreet, MFKZ, Mind Game, Animatrix, Batman: Gotham Knight, and others), and is directed by Ayumu Watanabe, with a score by award-winning composer and longtime Studio Ghibli collaborator Joe Hisaishi (Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle, My Neighbor Totoro). CHILDREN OF THE SEA is adapted from the manga of the same name by author Daisuke Igarashi, which won the Excellence Prize at the Japan Media Arts Festival.
  
  When Ruka was younger, she saw a ghost in the water at the aquarium where her dad works. Now she feels drawn toward the aquarium and the two mysterious boys she meets there, Umi and Sora. They were raised by dugongs and hear the same strange calls from the sea as she does. Ruka’s dad and the other adults who work at the aquarium are only distantly aware of what the children are experiencing as they get caught up in the mystery of the worldwide disappearance of the oceans’ fish.