2018 · science fiction · mystery · coming-of-age
Penguin Highway
Directed by Hiroyasu Ishida1h 58m2018
A fourth-grader investigates the mysterious reason behind the sudden appearance of penguins in his village, which is somehow related to a power from a young woman working at a dental clinic.
Our read: Penguin Highway (2018) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive science fiction · mystery · coming-of-age entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured science fiction / mystery, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- inventive
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