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Summer Days with Coo
Directed byKeiichi Hara
Written byKeiichi Hara
Music byKei Wakakusa
Production
company
Release date
  • July 28, 2007 (2007-07-28)
Running time
138 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Budget$3,333,389[1]

Summer Days with Coo (河童のクゥと夏休み, Kappa no Kū to Natsuyasumi, lit. "Summer Vacation with Coo the Kappa") is a 2007 Japanese animated film about a kappa and its impact on an ordinary suburban family, directed by Keiichi Hara.

Reception

The film won the Best Animation Film award at the 2008 Mainichi Film Awards[2] and was nominated for Best Animation Film at the 2008 Japanese Academy Awards,[3] and for Best Animated Feature Film at the 2007 Asia Pacific Screen Awards. It also won the Grand Prize for Animation at the 11th Japan Media Arts Festival and the Feature Film category at the 2008 Tokyo Anime Award.

Plot

A small, lone Kappa miraculously survives over 200 years into modern day Tokyo, Japan when he is found by young Koichi. "Coo" who is secretly adopted by the whole family, faces a tragic past and the present's challenge of living in a dramatically changed environment, searches with his new human friend for places not invaded by people hoping to find any remaining of his kind. When this intelligent "water sprite" draws the popular attention of the whole city upon being discovered and then confronted with his past, it forces him to take action and make an ultimate decision, in order to preserve his kind, inner peace and well being in today's harsh world.

Characters

  • Coo - Coo is the Kappa the whole story revolves around. He is found by Koichi Uehara, after he had survived over 200 years as a fossil. He then lives with Uehara family.
  • Kouichi Uehara - A fourth grade student,one day he finds a fossil of a baby Coo who survived for 200 years.
  • Ossan - The Uehara family dog.

Other mythical creatures

There are other Japanese mythical creatures appearing in the movie:

Cast

References

  1. ^ http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/intl/?page=&wk=2007W30&id=_fKAPPACOO01
  2. ^ "Mainichi Film Concours: 2008". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2008-09-01.
  3. ^ "Tekkonkinkreet Wins Japan's Academy Award for Animation". Anime News Network. 2008-02-15. Retrieved 2008-09-01.