Movie Cosmos - Children of the Sea

Description:

Ruka is a young girl whose parents are separated and whose father works in an aquarium. When two boys, Umi and Sora, who were raised in the sea by dugongs, are brought to the aquarium, Ruka feels drawn to them and begins to realize that she has the same sort of supernatural connection to the ocean that they do. Umi and Sora's special power seems to be connected to strange events that have been occurring more and more frequently, such as the appearance of sea creatures far from their home territory and the disappearance of aquarium animals around the world. However, the exact nature of the boys' power and of the abnormal events is unknown, and Ruka gets drawn into investigating the mystery that surrounds her new friends.

Top Cast >

Mana Ashida

As Ruka Azumi (voice)

Hiiro Ishibashi

As Umi (voice)

Seishu Uragami

As Sora (voice)

Win Morisaki

As Anglade (voice)

Goro Inagaki

As Masaaki Azumi (voice)

Yu Aoi

As Kanako Azumi (voice)

Tohru Watanabe

As Teacher (voice)

Min Tanaka

As Jimu (voice)

Sumiko Fuji

As Dede (voice)

Top Crew >

Ayumu Watanabe

Director

Ken Yamamoto

Key Animation

Eri Taguchi

Key Animation

Kenichi Konishi

Supervising Animation Director, Second Unit Director, Character Designer

Saku Konohana

Screenplay

Daisuke Igarashi

Comic Book

Miyuki Ito

Color Designer, Special Effects

Koji Kasamatsu

Sound Director, Sound Effects

Kenshi Yonezu

Theme Song Performance

Ayako Hata

Animation Director, Key Animation

Yuuya Geshi

Animation Director, Key Animation

Izumi Murakami

Animation Director, Key Animation

Tatsuzo Nishida

Key Animation

Kaori Hayashi

Key Animation

Sanae Shimada

Key Animation

Akiko Itagaki

Key Animation

Nahoko Machida

Key Animation

Kazuhiko Yabumoto

Key Animation

Minami Seki

Key Animation

Tomohiro Shinoda

Key Animation

Hirokazu Kojima

Key Animation

Takashi Mukouda

Key Animation

Masahiko Kubo

Key Animation

Kenji Hachizaki

Key Animation

Tomoyo Kamoi

Key Animation

Yukiko Nagao

Key Animation

Maiko Kobayashi

Key Animation

Takahiro Tanaka

Key Animation

Tetsuro Karai

Key Animation

Shigeru Kimishima

Key Animation

Ryota Furukawa

Key Animation

Yuuko Sera

Key Animation

Yasuyuki Shimizu

Key Animation

Kayoko Ishikawa

Key Animation

Yumi Chiba

Key Animation

Tatsumori Imoto

Key Animation

Saki Hasegawa

Key Animation

Yuki Oomori

Key Animation

Manabu Akita

Key Animation

Takana Shirai

Key Animation

Yasue Sosogi

Key Animation

Mari Futamatsu

Key Animation

Nanako Tatsu

Key Animation

Miki Kurihara

Key Animation

Soichiro Kubo

Key Animation

Manami Sugimoto

Key Animation

Emi Matsunaga

Key Animation

Saori Koike

Key Animation

Udo Komuro

Key Animation

Etsuko Yamamoto

Key Animation

Yuichiro Komuro

Key Animation

Yuta Yokoo

Key Animation

Hideyuki Sugiura

Key Animation

Kenichi Yamaguchi

Key Animation

Shingo Ishikawa

Key Animation

Yoshiko Hoshi

Key Animation

Takuya Saito

Key Animation

Rika Ota

Key Animation

Hitomi Kariya

Key Animation

China

Key Animation

Ryo Imamura

Key Animation

Eri Irei

Key Animation

Yosuke Kudo

Key Animation

Ran Kamezawa

Key Animation

Toko Yatabe

Key Animation

Daiki Harashina

Key Animation

Shintaro Doge

Key Animation

Shougo Furuya

Key Animation

Hiroyuki Aoyama

Key Animation

Ryo Konishi

Key Animation

Ryoko Ina

Background Designer

Sadayuki Arai

Background Designer

Sara Hasegawa

Background Designer

Mika Nishimura

Background Designer

Aiwa Narihata

Background Designer

Mika Yamaguchi

Foley Artist

Nobumasa Sawabe

Co-Producer

Ayumi Inoguchi

Co-Producer

Kenichiro Akimoto

CGI Director

Akito Takahashi

Associate Producer

Junya Okamoto

Associate Producer

Eiko Tanaka

Executive Producer, Producer

Keiji Kameyama

Executive Producer

Masakazu Kubo

Executive Producer

Keiji Ota

Executive Producer

Kimihisa Tsutsui

Executive Producer

Hajime Inoue

Executive Producer

Lovinia Chiu

Executive Producer

Kiyoshi Hirose

Editor

Kosuke Hayashi

Background Designer

Takafumi Ishida

CG Animator

Takanori Nakajima

CG Animator

Shinji Kimura

Art Direction

Joe Hisaishi

Original Music Composer

Moaang

Key Animation

MYOUN

Key Animation

Alex Boil

CG Artist

Shohei Chino

CG Artist

Reviews:

SWITCH. (3/10)

This film epitomises the risk that filmmakers (both live-action and animated) take with adapting a long-running or ongoing manga - a vast amount of material has to be peeled back to the core essentials to make a film with a feature-length running time.

Sometimes you can shorten the plot of the manga considerably, add in scenes and motifs and end up with a timeless piece of art like Katsuhiro Otomo’s ‘Akira’. Chop out too much or pick the wrong elements to keep, and you can sink even a film as visually rich as ‘Children of the Sea’ beneath waves of turgid storytelling.