Ein Sommer mit Coo (2007)
9KEin Sommer mit Coo: Directed by Keiichi Hara. With Kazato Tomizawa, Takahiro Yokokawa, Naoki Tanaka, Naomi Nishida. Kôichi Uehara is a fourth grade student living in Higashikurume City, a suburb of Tokyo. One day he picks up what he thinks to be a fossil of an ancient creature but turns out to be a baby kappa (a mythical Japanese water creature) that was sleeping underground for the past 300 years, and he names it “Coo”. Kôichi and Coo become good friends and the kappa starts living with the human boy’s family. However, Coo cannot not fully adjust to life in present-day Higashikurume and starts to miss his own family. On a hot summer day, Kôichi and Coo decide to go on an adventurous road trip to find his own kind.
“A sad but ultimately uplifting story of a kappa whose father is killed by a samurai wanting to convert their swamp to farmland, and the boy who much later discovers his son, u0026quot;Coou0026quot; (Japanese Kû, evidently) as a fossil, in modern Japan. Despite numerous difficulties, mostly from suspicious outsiders, spirit and human are reconciled, at least for this family. Oh, and Coo loves to sumo wrestle, despite his small size. Not by Miyazaki, but of Ghibli quality.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eSiennau0026#39;s Rating: 8 StarsnPauls Rating:8 starsnSebs Rating:9 stars.”
