Children Who Chase Lost Voices

Children Who Chase Lost Voices (Hoshi o Ou Kodomo, 2011) is a feature anime by Makoto Shinkai you can watch online on iFILM. A Japanese fantasy adventure about a girl chasing music from an underground world.

Asuna lives mostly alone and spends her evenings tuning a homemade crystal radio, the one keepsake left by her late father. Walking home one day, she is attacked by a creature and rescued by Shun, a boy from the legendary land of Agartha. Then he vanishes. With her teacher Morisaki, Asuna travels beneath the earth to find him, entering a place where the living still hope to bring back the dead.

Shinkai made this film between 5 Centimeters per Second and The Garden of Words, years before Your Name. It is his first reach toward a full mythology: farewell, loss, and what it costs to chase someone already gone. The voice cast includes Hisako Kanemoto, Miyu Irino and Kazuhiko Inoue. Stream Children Who Chase Lost Voices (2011) online on iFILM.