AroView: This beautiful, serious-minded take on werewolf folklore focuses on a young woman and her struggle to raise two children of mixed human-wolf heritage in modern day Japan.
Though an imaginative and adorable fantasy in its own right, dir. Hosoda’s sensitive treatment places the narrative in the rich tradition of Japanese humanism. It’s a mature and affecting dramatisation of easily trivialised material that is both a coming-of-age tale and a poignant meditation on the trials of parenting.
