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A Letter to Momo (2012)

Directed by Hiroyuki Okiura

Animation | Fantasy | Family

Overview

A shy 11-year-old’s life takes a strange turn when she discovers three hungry goblins living in the attic of her new house. She misses her old life. She misses her father so very much. Until she makes some new ghoulish friends.

Rated PG | Length 120 minutes

Actors

Karen Miyama | Toshiyuki Nishida | Yuka | Takeo Ogawa | Yoshisada Sakaguchi | Kouichi Yamadera | Choo | Ikuko Tani | Daizaburo Arakawa | Kota Fuji | Katsuki Hashimoto

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Date ViewedDeviceFormatSourceRating
09/04/2014Movie ScreenDigitalTheater7 stars
 

Viewing Notes

Stayed at the Siskel Film Center after 39 Steps to catch this film since it was its last screening. Glad I did because it really is a beautiful cel animation film with a heartwarming yokai story. Wasn’t sure it was gonna come together but the final sequence is really sweet.

The yokai are hilarious. Once again I’m left wondering why the single parent premise is so prevalent in Japanese storytelling. I know there must be something to this especially the regret and guilt issues. I wish someone more scholarly than me would write an essay on this.

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