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Children of the Sea

7.1(358)20191h 51m6

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.

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Status
Released
Budget
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Box office
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Language
Japanese
  • friendship
  • aquarium
  • philosophy
  • supernatural
  • based on manga
  • seinen
  • anime

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Produced in

China, Hong Kong, Japan

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PhysicalShout Factory DVD and Blu Ray1 Sept 2020
    • TheatricalNRDubbed13 Jun 2021
    • TheatricalNR15 Jun 2021
  • AustraliaAU

    • PremiereSydney Film Festival15 Jun 2019
    • TheatricalPG12 Dec 2019
  • CanadaCA

    • PremiereOttawa International Animation Festival26 Sept 2019
  • ChinaCN

    • Theatrical20 Nov 2020
  • FinlandFI

    • TheatricalK-72 Oct 2020
  • FranceFR

    • PremiereAnnecy International Animation Film Festival10 Jun 2019
    • TheatricalTP10 Jul 2019
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical625 Jan 2020
  • Hong KongHK

    • TheatricalI27 Jun 2019
  • ItalyIT

    • TheatricalT2 Dec 2019
  • JapanJP

    • PremiereGTokyo19 May 2019
    • TheatricalG7 Jun 2019
  • RussiaRU

    • Theatrical6+10 Oct 2019
    • Digital / OTT6+7 Nov 2019
  • South KoreaKR

    • TheatricalALL30 Sept 2020

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Children of the Sea was released on 7 June 2019.

Audience reviews

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    SWITCH.

    6/21/2019

    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 …

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