Premiere
17
Sep2011
Studio
About
Synopsis
Hotarubi no Mori e (2011) is a Japanese animated romance from studio Brain's Base — watch it online on iFILM. Director Takahiro Omori adapted Yuki Midorikawa's manga into a 45-minute film that feels far longer in the best possible way. Fantasy, longing, and a summer that keeps coming back.
Young Hotaru wanders into an enchanted mountain forest and meets Gin — a masked spirit boy who cannot be touched by human hands without vanishing forever. She comes back every summer. She grows up. He stays the same. Ayane Sakura and Koki Uchiyama voice the leads, carrying the whole weight of a wordless kind of grief.
No battles, no magic systems — just two people on opposite sides of an impossible rule. Stream Hotarubi no Mori e (2011) online on iFILM.
Cast
Starring
Izumi Sawada
Hotaru's Mother (voice)
Hayato Taya
Ryouta (voice)
Ayane Sakura
Hotaru Takegawa (voice)
Koki Uchiyama
Gin (voice)
Shinpachi Tsuji
Hotaru's Grandfather (voice)
Kanehira Yamamoto
Shadow (voice)
Masanori Machida
Tree Hand (voice)
Mami Uchida
Masked Child (voice)
Hiroki Goto
Lion (voice)
Kumiko Tashiro
Festival Child (voice)
Asami Imai
Masked Child (voice)
Takahiro Omori
crew
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