Ookami kodomo no Ame to Yuki
Tags: romantic, fantasy

Plot synopsis:
Hana is enrolled in a university, while working part-time as a dry cleaner, and living a single life alone in her apartment. She saw a boy in her class writing down notes, but with no textbook, and whom she had never seen before in any classes. Wolf man was his name, and he never intended on meeting anyone, nor a girl at this time. He wasn't enrolled in school, just there to learn and read. Hana noticed one day that he never signed his sheets, so she chased him to get him to sign them, but he refused and tells her why. After that hana becomes more interested in wolf man and wants to know who he is. Wolf man works for a moving company, mostly for apartments, and is set out to buy an apartment of his own, where he can keep his books and call it his own. After some time hana asks him to move in with her. Soon hana finds out that wolf man isn't normal, wolf man is a wolf. She isn't truly frighten, but yet scared a bit. Soon they have a child, but they give birth at home with no one around because they don't know if it will be a puppy, or a baby. It's a beautiful girl named yuki. Through this story, yuki will narrate the liveschool and hana is going to go get her, but ams decides to leave for the forest. Hana leaves for him and forgets about yuki, and goes after ame. And this brings them all together in a way that a family loves each other. That's the story of wolf children.

Review: It is a movie about love of all kinds, and while it is admittedly an idealized version of love, a story of the sort of unselfish, uncomplicated love that only exists consistently in movies, it is truly lovely.It is also often quite funny, well paced, and thoroughly entertaining.Having seen Mamoru Hosada's previous films Summer Wars and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, I see him as the successor to Hadeo Miyazaki, who (alas) cannot live forever.
Rather, the greatest moments are the depictions of family life and the picturesque sketches of Tokyo and the Japanese countryside.The story begins with the start of the eponymous wolf children's parents' love, and progresses through births, deaths, moves, the first day of school, and their growth into adults.
I can only hope I see the other two From Poppy on a Hill and Children Who Chase Lost Voices when they come out on DVD.Here's my review of Wolf Children: Mamoru Hosada could be one anime Director who could rival the international reputation of his former employers; Studio Ghibli."Wolf Children" is his third feature after the successes of "The Girl Who Leaped Through Time" and "Summer Wars".The Stoy follows Hana; a young University Student who falls in love with a strange young man.
Things start to take a more drastic turn when He dies leaving Hana alone to raise her two Children they bore.The rest of the film follows the children as they grow up and how Hana manages to raise them and deal with their gift, habits, situations and morals.The central action takes place in their new country home surrounded by wilderness and their interactions with the town folks and wild life.Like Hosada's previous works, this film has fantastic and unique character designs; that aim more to realism and art-house scene than traditional anime designs.The story is very heartwarming and cute as time goes on, there are some dark parts that become very heart wrenching.
But overall its a superb anime film even if your familiar with Hosada's other films or not Wolf Children is great and must be seen, I highly recommended it for a heartwarming journey of endurance, love, coming of age and prosperity..
And don't forget that story remains king.Director Mamoru Hosoda continues on his roll with a brand of animated films that are extremely well received, because not only are they drawn to perfection in anime style, but also his films touches the emotional core on humanity, and this will inevitably move you with his style and delivery of such strong stories, whether written by someone else, as a film adaptation of novels such as The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, or like in Summer Wars and Wolf Children, stem from his own imagination.
For the most parts throughout this film, I thought it also resembled Yoji Yamada's Kabei: Our Mother, in the sense that this film takes on story proportions centered around a mother's unconditional love for her children, and the continuous strive to make ends meet and bring up her children to the best of her ability, inculcating a value system into her young ones.
Undeterred, they begin a family, and soon Hana gives birth to the titular daughter Yuki and son Ame, before tragedy strikes and the family becomes a dysfunctional one without a father figure.Fearing that her children may be discovered to be wolf-human hybrids, with a number of scenes showing the challenges she faces such as their tantrums and uncontrollable changes, or the dilemma faced when they fall sick, she decides to uproot and move into the countryside, where life is simpler, neighbours are far away from one another, and there is room to, well, let her young ones roam in the vast grasslands and mountain sides.
A new life beckons, and the film begins its homage to all moms having to struggle to bring up their children in unfamiliar surroundings, with little assistance, and plenty of inexperience.As a storyteller, Mamoru Hosoda excelled in character development, as we journey together with Hana in her upbringing, with the children endearing themselves to you in double quick time.
And both Yuki and Ame, besides their gender, have very contrasting qualities, from young to their teens, a tale told to just about the time where teenage rebellion and the need to forge their own independence take centerstage.There are plenty of episodes in Wolf Children that covers a spectrum of emotions, from comedy to those that will set heaviness in your heart.
And the animation is clearly Hosoda's vision in having details balanced with the occasional need for scarcity, which nailed it especially when the narrative calls for some distance either physically, or emotionally, and it's a stylistic choice that's already seen in a number of his films.Mamoru Hosoda set up his Studio Chizu with this production, and I'm really looking forward to more stories in the coming years.
But still a fantastic film.Ratings:Animation: 9.5/10Storyline: 9.8/10Background scenery: 10/10 (Amazing background scenery, greatly drawn)Character personality: 10/10Overall: 10/10Thanks for reading.Nik. If you didn't believe in Mamoru Hosuda after Summer Wars .
In my opinion, aside from the supernatural aspects of the characters themselves, this is a very real and down to earth story about a mother trying to raise two children who are different and the struggles she has to go through alone.
Growing her own vegetables in the backyard, facing the different seasons and going through all the ups and down in life she almost achieves her ambition.It did not look like an anime movie, it looked almost a real one with many cool and colourful frames.
I was really surprised at how much I loved Wolf Children when I left the theatre, and it instantly became the best Japanese animated film I have seen in 2012.
Thus their mother does the sensible, but also risky, thing and moves to the countryside to farm the land and to raise her children in peace.From that intriguing beginning we get a beautiful film about the problems of growing up while straddling two heritages.
Especially near the end the film has some absolutely beautiful and thoughtful moments when the children, now young teenagers, finally have to start making decision about which of the worlds they want to belong to.I also have to praise the character of the mother, Hana.
While all of his films since The Girl Who Leapt Through Time have explored themes of family and growing up, Wolf Children is surely his masterpiece..
It fills the running time almost perfectly and uses some very mature and relatable themes dealing with them in a way that's sensitive and beyond its years while also making it accessible for a wider audience(a quite difficult thing to do and Wolf Children does this better than most animated films).
When I watched Wolf Children for the first time, I wasn't expecting the amount of feelings that happened, even in the beginning.
A story of a single mother raising two children that also happen to be part wolf is shown super well in this film!
I consider this as a heartbreaking yet lovely adaptation of a single parent daily life with her children.I won't say that she's in a special condition because her children are actually wolf's descendant because every child is unique and troubling in his/her own way, right?When I'm watching it, I feel so warm inside because I'd feel the love in this movie.
And the voices used to make those characters make most of them all the more real, combined with the animation and soundtrack and this feels like a documentary about a mom raising Children who can turn into wolfs rather than an animated feature.
The movie spends a lot of time in showing us all the things that Hana has to do, from the hardest things because of her unique situation, to normal activities like farming and for that reason, some people might see this as a very slow movie, but those "slow" scenes contribute in showing us one of the themes of this film which is to witness just how much is a mother willing to go to raise and protect her children.
'Wolf Children' is such an offbeat take, in fact, that it hardly qualifies as horror movie with the human/wolf metamorphosis more of a metaphor for kids growing and changing and ultimately having to make decisions of what they want in life.
It's another heartwarming animation directed by Mamoru Hosoda, who is famous for "Summer Wars" and "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time."I tend to choose a film based on its trailer and rating on IMDb or other film sites, so this film is also no exception: I thought it would be a heartwarming human drama depicting wolf children.
The mother never scolds Yuki and Ame. I was touched by her attitude that she accepts anything from her children, and she tries so hard in order to bring up them.This film was awarded an Academy Award for the best animation.
First let me say that if this movie was developed in the US it would be good enough for quite a lot of praise here in the States, and wouldn't be looked at as an oddity like Japanese animation almost always is around here.
main focus is obviously on mother, who tries to raise her wolfy kids far away from humans societies, and how she suffers,(a perfect anime parent) i cried like 3 times watching this and i watched kimi no na wa with almost no tears at all, so you can tell what am i bringing here ..
This is a very well-made Anime but not quite suitable for children, except the really mature ones.To their defense though, when you have a shot that consists on a woman and a wolf-headed man with bare shoulders, kissing and followed by a discretion shot implying they're in a bed, stoicism isn't exactly boys' strongest suit and some were already starting to heckle the show (that it wasn't dubbed added to their ordeal).I must admit that the whole first act consisting of a narrator telling her mother's romance was awkward.
Beautiful and unexpected: once we get the supernatural element, everything is handled in a realistic way, complaints from tenants about the noises and constant howling the "kids" make, the pressure from Childhood Protection and a very meaningful moment where little Yuke swallows gel and Hana is wondering whether to go to a doctor or a vet.Hana is the Mama Bear figure movies love today, she resorted to natural birth out of fear to deliver wolves in a hospital and realizing an urban life wouldn't fit them, decides to move on to the mountain and live on gardening.
Once there, in a sequence that reminds of "Totoro", the two children react to wilderness according to their personalities, Yuke is excited and express her wolf-life nature to the fullest while little Ame is the momma's boy who want to go home.I'm not sure about the idea of not including fantastic elements but it was strange to have that film with such a fascinating premise stick up obstinately to realism.
( examples as a single mothers hardships of raising two young children all on her own, working hard for only the best for them!)This movie is now one of my all time favorites!.
Not only is it one of my favorite animated films, it's one of my favorite films period.The plot revolves around Hana, who falls in love with a Wolf Man and has children with him.
Suddenly when the Wolf Man passes away, Hana vows to take care of his children by moving to the countryside where we witness the two children grow up and take different paths in a 12 year time span.I could go on forever about this movie, but I'll try to shorten it.
While I know Japanese animation more from Hayao Miyazaki and the Toei Company robot fighting machines, it was indeed so good for me to watch and enjoy "Wolf Children" by Mamoru Hosoda.Hana meets a quiet loner in the university and they fall in love.
They have two children together -- the spirited girl Yuki and the serious boy Ame. But as tragedy struck, Hana had overcome great odds to move to the remote countryside and raise their two kids by herself, just as they were both already showing their human-wolf duality.
A simultaneously neo-Gothic and slice-of-life fairy tale about a single mother struggling to raise her two lycanthropic kids, Wolf Children is, in no unclear way, an unapologetically sentimental and heedlessly optimistic film.
But that's another story.-It's gross- Just look at what they eat in this movie!-Forced romance/heartwarming/heartbreaking moments- These make me cringe.-Not for kids- This "family film," has moments totally not suitable for children.
This is one of my favorite anime films of all time.I appreciate that it has no such sides which contains mystery, thrill, action, adventure (The things mankind prefer much nowadays) but the significance of Mother's Love can't be shown much greater than this film.Especially I have no intention to spoil the story, but i can't help mentioning the best line from the trailer- "You can think this is a fairy tale but, to a mom it hadn't!" My Review - "You may feel that you are a complete misery to the world but don't think so....
Version I saw: UK DVD release (subtitled)Actors: 7/10Plot/script: 7/10Photography/visual style: 7/10Music/score: 7/10Overall: 7/10Wolf Children is the third film from director Mamoru Hosoda, after The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Summer Wars.
Many anime works, including the likes of Ghibli's pieces, suffered from a few things: i) imbalance flow of plot, where certain stages/ arc of the storyline were memorable but the rest of the story fail to make an impact that they were expected to ; ii) actions taken by the characters that appear irrational or falling into the cliché category.In my opinion, I am glad to see that this film did not become a victim to such traps.
The movie made a good decision to focus rather on the story of how the mother cope on her own, taking care of her two growing-up children under such conditions where she cannot simply request for anyone's help.In my opinion, Ame to Yuki carved its brand in creating such an incredible plot, when there are already tons of other movies or series that famously exhibited vampires/ wolverines, and yet probably a very few pieces out there took the opportunity to explore the possible life situations that could materialize if a human were to commingle with a non-human character, at least not to such a degree Ame and Yuki did.Of course, I am aware that the movie chose to take on a very optimistic approach, which could otherwise complicate things substantially.
It may be an animation on wolf children but its theme extends far beyond that: in the end, what kind of life do we want to lead?
Whether or not this is the goal, as someone who doesn't find animals sexy, it's an uncomfortable moment to watch and feels wholly out of place in this story.The products of their repeated love-making become the titular wolf children, a girl named Yuki and her baby brother Ame. After a tragic hunting accident claims the life of the children's father, Hana is stuck trying to raise these kids, or perhaps tame these wild animals, alone.
It's a lonely kind of desperation, and WOLF CHILDREN knows how to hit those chords in a thoughtful and effective way.Hats off to Hosoda and his co-writer Satoko Okudera for not falling into the trap of having Hana need someone to help her raise the kids.
Mamoru Hosoda has three times dazzled me with his films and has caught me in ways that other brilliant directors like him have beautiful but simple and heartfelt stories with a simple animation style that could easily rival the best CGI film out there and Wolf Children proves to be all of these and more.
While I loved Hosoda's Summer Wars and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time they didn't quite captivate me like Wolf Children did.
Much like Brad Bird did with "Ratatouille," Momaru Hosoda manages to take a very odd concept, and transform it into an involving, moving and ironically real experience."Wolf Children" tells the story of Hana, a nineteen year old college student, who falls quickly in love with a man, who harbours a personal secret.
The story evokes so many life questions like, "What kind of life do we want to live?" and "Am I being a good parent?" I didn't expect to love this film as much as I did going into it, but it was so worth the 2 hours.Not only is the story wonderful, the animation is brilliant as is the voice acting.
Let me start off by saying this review will have some spoilers in it, so you have been warned.Wolf Children is the story of Hana, a college student who meets a werewolf and falls in love, has a whirlwind romance, gets pregnant, and ends up having to raise two werewolf children on her own.
Actually, it did seem like the movie was trying too hard to be a Ghibli film at times, especially once they moved to the country.
Wolf Children is a touching story about Hana, a single mother, raising two young children, Yuki and Ame. The story starts by showing Hana at Tokyo National University, where she meets the love of her life, which has a secret.
I think that Hosoda wants you to feel what the mother is feeling, but all I could think about was why can't the children just be mostly human and spend some time as a wolf just like their father?
That is not easy to imagine or to do it, but till the end Hana successfully raised her children well.The movie show you how hard to become single parent mom, you don't have time for yourself.