2007 · animation · fantasy · comedy
Summer Days with Coo
Directed by Keiichi Hara2h 18m2007
A small, lone Kappa miraculously survives over 200 years into modern day Japan, when he is found by young Koichi. Coo, who is secretly adopted by Koichi's family, searches with his new human friend for unpopulated places in hopes of finding any remaining of his kind.
Our read: Summer Days with Coo (2007) reads as a warm, measured, surreal animation · fantasy · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, measured, gentle animation / fantasy, surreal in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- warm
- measured
- gentle
- inventive
- tender
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