After the wolf dies a sudden, unexplained death, the mother, Hana, struggles to care for the children while shielding them from neighbors who might not welcome children with the habit of turning into wolves at inopportune moments. WOLF CHILDREN may be his most emotionally mature work yet as it focuses on a young widowed mother and her two young children, the offspring of a liaison with a mysterious stranger who revealed himself to be a wolf with the capacity to turn human.
Hosoda’s films recall the animated masterpieces of Hayao Miyazaki (MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO, PRINCESS MONONOKE, SPIRITED AWAY, et al) in the way they mix sharply etched young protagonists with supernatural elements and ample doses of humor to tell powerful humanistic stories of families coping with the traditional Japanese conflict between tradition and modernity.
Before these two films, Hosoda had directed THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME (2006) and the first two movies spun off from the Digimon animated series, DIGIMON ADVENTURE: BORN OF KOROMON (1999) and DIGIMON ADVENTURE: OUR WAR GAME (2000). Hosoda had appeared and done a Q&A there also. Hosoda’s previous animated film, SUMMER WARS (2009), when it had premiered at the NYICFF on the night of a blizzard in February 2010 and Mr. On March 9, 2013, I went to the New York International Children’s Film Festival (NYICFF) to see a new animated film, WOLF CHILDREN (2012), by Japanese director Mamoru Hosoda, who appeared after the screening for a Q&A with the audience.
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