Summer Days with Coo 2007

7.8 / 10   120 vote(s)
G
Animation Comedy Romance

A small, lone Kappa miraculously survives over 200 years into modern day Japan, when he is found by young Koichi. Coo, who is secretly adopted by Koichi's family, searches with his new human friend for unpopulated places in hopes of finding any remaining of his kind.

Release Date 2007-07-28
Runtime 2h 18m
Director Keiichi Hara
Producers Yoshihiro Iwasaki, Yutaka Sugiyama
Writers Masao Kogure, Yuichi Watanabe, Keiichi Hara

Nice animation movie about the friendship of a kid and a mithological being from Japanese culture. Deep, with some insight about the meaning of life and loneliness. Still, it keeps just being a remasterization of another movies like E.T. or "Mac and Me" with quite a lot of stereotypes.

Andres Gomez