2011 · fantasy · adventure · drama
Children Who Chase Lost Voices
Directed by Makoto Shinkai1h 56m2011
The film centers on Asuna, a young girl who spends her solitary days listening to the mysterious music emanating from the crystal radio she received from her late father as a memento. One day while walking home she is attacked by a fearsome monster and saved by a mysterious boy named Shun. However, Shun disappears and Asuna embarks on a journey of adventure to the land of Agartha with her teacher Mr. Morisaki to meet a Shun again. Through her journey she comes to know the cruelty and beauty of the world, as well as loss.
Our read: Children Who Chase Lost Voices (2011) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive fantasy · adventure · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured fantasy / adventure, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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