With the TV series out this spring for Wakaokami wa Shogakusei, which didn’t get a simulcast pickup, we got our first look at the feature film part of the project a couple of weeks ago. The film is coming up in September in Japan with Okko’s Inn and now a new teaser has landed for it alongside a new theatrical poster. The film is also getting a presentation at Annecy in June with Gaga International handling distribution for that.
Kitaro Kousaka is directing this with Reiko Yoshida handling the screenplay. Animation Production is handled by DLE and Madhouse.
The Japanese cast includes Seiran Kobayashi as Oriko “Okko” Seki, Etsuko Kozakura as Suzuki, Masaki Terasoma as Kōnosuke “Kō-san” Minoda, Nana Mizuki as Matsuki Akino, Satsumi Matsuda as Makoto “Uri-bō” Tachiuri, Teiyu Ichiryusai as Etsuko Tajima, and Youko Asagami as Mineko Seki.
Plot Concept: After losing her parents in a car accident, Okko starts living with her grandmother in the countryside who runs a hot-spring ryokan – traditional Japanese inn. There, the young girl can somehow see friendly ghosts who help her get used to the ryokan life, and she becomes the apprentice as its future proprietress after her grandmother.
