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Drifting Home

Drifting Home

Animation · Fantasy · Adventure · 2022

One fateful summer, a group of elementary school kids set adrift on an abandoned apartment building must look within themselves to find a way back home.

Movie details

Drifting Home

“What is the secret hidden in the apartment complex?”

2022 Animation · Fantasy · Adventure 2h 1m

Critical arithmetic

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TMDB

7.4 / 10

Community rating

One fateful summer, a group of elementary school kids set adrift on an abandoned apartment building must look within themselves to find a way back home.

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The people responsible.

Directed by

Hiroyasu Ishida

Written by

Hiroyasu Ishida · Hayashi Mori

Mutsumi Tamura

Mutsumi Tamura

Kosuke Kumagaya (voice)

Asami Seto

Asami Seto

Natsume Tonai (voice)

Ayumu Murase

Ayumu Murase

Noppo (voice)

Daiki Yamashita

Daiki Yamashita

Yuzuru Tachibana (voice)

Yumiko Kobayashi

Yumiko Kobayashi

Taishi Koiwai (voice)

Inori Minase

Inori Minase

Reina Haba (voice)

Kana Hanazawa

Kana Hanazawa

Juri Ando (voice)

Court is in session

Put Drifting Home on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Arthouse Gremlin

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.