2012 · comedy · fantasy · animation
A Letter to Momo
Directed by Hiroyuki Okiura2h 0m2012
A shy 11-year-old's life takes a strange turn when she discovers three hungry goblins living in the attic of her new house. She misses her old life. She misses her father so very much. Until she makes some new ghoulish friends.
Our read: A Letter to Momo (2012) reads as a warm, steady, inventive comedy · fantasy · animation entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle comedy / fantasy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- warm
- gentle
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
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“You want gentle grief anime, island folklore, and goblins easing loss.”
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