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Urashima Tunnel – Once you enter that tunnel, you can get whatever you want, but at a price. Kaoru Tohno, who seems to have an elusive personality and traumatic past, and Anzu Hanashiro, who is struggling to reconcile her ideal image and true-to-heart attitude, team up to investigate the Urashima Tunnel and get what they want. This is an unforgettable summer story of nostalgia and sprinting in a remote countryside.
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| Homepage | https://tunneltosummerfilm.co.uk |
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| Release Date | 2022-09-09 |
| Runtime | 1h 23m |
| Directors | Tomohisa Taguchi, Tomomi Yabuki, Seiji Tachikawa, Tomomi Yabuki, Michio Hasegawa, Yasuhisa Kato, Kanji Miyake, Kou Hoshina, Satoki Iida, Tsukasa Saito, Tomohisa Taguchi, Kenji Terao, Masaaki Fujita, Masashi Uoyama |
| Producers | Ryoichiro Matsuo, Masaaki Fujita, Reiko Sasaki, Taisuke Shikama, Masayo Kudo, Nao Matsumura, Naoki Koyama, Hirofumi Ito, Kazunari Okuma, Hideyuki Nanba, Etsushi Ogawa, Ryosuke Naya, Nobumasa Sawabe |
| Writers | Mei Hachimoku, Tomohisa Taguchi |
This reminded me quite a lot of "Suzume" from earlier this year, only here we have a tunnel rather than a door! It's the same boy meets girl type scenario - with both Kaoro and Anzu coming from families with tragedy in their recent history. Legend has it that the Urashima tunnel can grant you anything you wish - but it works out that for 108 seconds in there it takes 3 days off your life in the real world. Kaoro is determined to get his younger (and frankly rather annoyingly enthusiastic) sister back; Anzu to discover the secrets of her grandfather's manga writing so she can excel. The two meet at a railway station, attend the same school and gradually bond - discovering and exploring this mysterious tunnel and ultimately questioning just what they really want from life. The narrative does mingle a careful what you wish for aspect with a grass is always greener one - and the story is quite effective when it dwells on that scenario. Sadly, though, there is just a little bit too much baggage around the characterisations, a touch too much teenage angst and though the animation is quite watchable, the story is over-stretched. It's a nice to watch film, with a pleasing score, but it's not especially original or memorable, I'm afraid.
— CinemaSerf