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Drifting Home
雨を告げる漂流団地
2022 121 min Japan PG 12+
★6.6
Animation, Fantasy, Adventure
Director: Hiroyasu Ishida
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Description
One fateful summer, a group of elementary school kids set adrift on an abandoned apartment building must look within themselves to find a way back home.
Starring
Mutsumi Tamura
Actor
Asami Seto
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Ayumu Murase
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Awards
1 nomination total
Key opinion
Drifting Home is a visually evocative anime that explores the poignant themes of nostalgia, grief, and the struggle to move on from childhood memories. While the central emotional narrative resonates deeply with some viewers, others find the storytelling repetitive and inconsistent in its tonal shift between adventure and drama.
| Production | The film features attractive, high-quality animation and a compelling visual style that effectively enhances the atmospheric world-building. | |
| Theme | The narrative effectively portrays the complex emotions of grief and the psychological difficulty of letting go of childhood homes and loved ones. | |
| Acting | The characters Natsume and Kosuke are well-defined in their conflict, though the secondary ensemble cast feels largely underdeveloped and vague. | |
| Pacing | The pacing suffers from repetitive sequences and an incoherent structure that leaves the film feeling overly long. | |
| Screenplay | The tone is sharply divided between lighthearted adventure and somber, depressive drama, which some viewers find jarring and others find emotionally immersive. |