Children of the Sea (2019)

★ 7.1 1h 51m 336 votes IMDb
Fantasy Animated Adventure Mystery

Ruka is a young girl whose parents are separated and whose father works in an aquarium. When two boys, Umi and Sora, who were raised in the sea by dugongs, are brought to the aquarium, Ruka feels drawn to them and begins to realize that she has the same sort of supernatural connection to the ocean that they do. Umi and Sora's special power seems to be connected to strange events that have been occurring more and more frequently, such as the appearance of sea creatures far from their home territory and the disappearance of aquarium animals around the world. However, the exact nature of the boys' power and of the abnormal events is unknown, and Ruka gets drawn into investigating the mystery that surrounds her new friends.

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Cast

Mana Ashida
Mana Ashida as Ruka Azumi (voice) Age 21 · Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan
Hiiro Ishibashi
Hiiro Ishibashi as Umi (voice) Age 21 · Chiba, Japan
Seishu Uragami
Seishu Uragami as Sora (voice) Age 26 · Tokyo, Japan Seishu Uragami (浦上 晟周, Uragami Seishū, November 23, 1999) is a Japanese actor from Tokyo, Japan. He is affiliated with agency Honest..
Win Morisaki
Win Morisaki as Anglade (voice) Age 35 · Yangon, Myanmar
Goro Inagaki
Goro Inagaki as Masaaki Azumi (voice) Age 52 · Tokyo, Japan Gorō Inagaki (born December 8, 1973) is a Japanese musician and actor from Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan. Inagaki is a member of the Japanese pop group SMAP. His career began while he was in junior high scho...
Yu Aoi
Yu Aoi as Kanako Azumi (voice) Age 40 · Kasuga, Fukuoka, Japan Yu Aoi (蒼井優) is a Japanese actress and model born on August 17, 1985. She made her film debut as Shiori Tsuda in Shunji Iwai's 2001 film All About Lily Chou-Chou. She subsequently portrayed Tetsuko Ar...
Director Ayumu Watanabe
Cast Mana Ashida, Hiiro Ishibashi, Seishu Uragami, Win Morisaki, Goro Inagaki, Yu Aoi, Tohru Watanabe, Min Tanaka, Sumiko Fuji

Audience Reviews

SWITCH. 3/10 Jun 21, 2019
This film epitomises the risk that filmmakers (both live-action and animated) take with adapting a long-running or ongoing manga - a vast amount of material has to be peeled back to the core essentials to make a film with a feature-length running time.

Sometimes you can shorten the plot of the manga considerably, add in scenes and motifs and end up with a timeless piece of art like Katsuhiro Otomo’s ‘Akira’. Chop out too much or pick the wrong elements to keep, and you can sink even a film as visually rich as ‘Children of the Sea’ beneath waves of turgid storytelling.
- Jake Watt

Read Jake's full article...
https://www.maketheswitch.com.au/article/review-children-of-the-sea-sunk-by-a-soggy-script

Head to https://www.maketheswitch.com.au/sff for more Sydney Film Festival reviews.

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