A strange old woman allows a teenage runaway and a young orphan to stay in an abandoned house that overlooks the sea. However, when a menacing entity threatens their new home, they must band together and face their fears to save it.
Direction
Kawatsura balances slice-of-life warmth with genuine supernatural dread.
Production
The Cape house itself—crumbling, alive, impossibly cozy.
Writing
Yokai folklore woven into modern disaster recovery.
Director
Shinya Kawatsura
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film explicitly addresses 3/11 displacement, rare in anime—yokai here function as metaphors for communities rebuilding after invisible, incomprehensible loss.
Mana Ashida (Yui) was already a veteran at 16—she'd starred in Japan's Oscar submission 'I Wish' at age 7. Her performance here carries that same preternatural weight.
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