Summer Days with Coo
2007 · Movie · G · 138 min · ★ 7.8
A lonely creature from Japanese folklore wakes up in present-day Japan and is taken in by a kind family. As it adjusts to modern life, it forms a close friendship with a young boy and sets out in search of a place where it might truly belong.
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Details
- Original title
- 河童のクゥと夏休み
- Years
- 2007
- Release date
- 2007-07-28
- Language
- Japanese
- Rated
- G
- Runtime
- 138 min
- TMDB rating
- 7.8/10 (143 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you like gentle, emotional family fantasy with friendship and loneliness at its core, especially if A Letter to Momo or Stand by Me Doraemon 2 worked for you; Not for you if you want fast-paced adventure.
Pros: heartfelt friendship; thoughtful themes; charming animation | Cons: familiar setup; some stereotypes; uneven originality
Themes
- river
- swimming
- adult animation
- sumo
- back in time
- corrupt official
- anime
- kappa
Cast & crew
Kazato Tomizawa
as Coo (voice)
Takahiro Yokokawa
as Kouichi Uehara (voice)
Naoki Tanaka
as Yasuo Uehara (voice)
Tamaki Matsumoto
as Hitomi Uehara (voice)
Ken'ichi Nagira
as Coo's Father (voice)
- NH
Nanako Hirata
as Koichi's Classmate (voice)
Kyousuke Ikeda
as Koichi's Classmate (voice)
- KM
Kazuki Matsuoka
as Koichi's Classmate (voice)
- SM
Souta Murakami
as Koichi's Classmate (voice)
- SY
Saki Yoshihara
as Koichi's Classmate (voice)
Directed by Keiichi Hara