Project Author: David Mills
June 23, 2025
PRODUCTION COMPANIES:
Brain’s Base
Hotarubi no Mori e
Genre:
Romance, Animation, Fantasy
Runtime:
45
Released:
2011
Rating:
8.279
Budget:
Box Office:
WRITERS
Yuki Midorikawa, Takahiro Omori
FILM OVERVIEW
Hotarubi no Mori e
One hot summer day a little girl gets lost in an enchanted forest of the mountain god where spirits reside. A young boy appears before her, but she cannot touch him for fear of making him disappear. And so a wondrous adventure awaits…
DIRECTOR
Takahiro Omori
GALLERY
PRODUCTION TEAM
Makoto Yoshimori (Original Music Composer)
Hiroshi Yakou (Key Animation)
Takahiro Omori (Director)
Akira Takata (Animation Director)
Akira Takata (Character Designer)
Kazuhiko Seki (Editor)
Yukihiro Shibutani (Art Direction)
Hitoshi Tamura (Director of Photography)
Orie Tanaka (Key Animation)
Risako Yoshida (Animation)
CAST MEMBERS
Izumi Sawada
Hayato Taya
Ayane Sakura
Koki Uchiyama
Shinpachi Tsuji
Kanehira Yamamoto
Masanori Machida
Mami Uchida
Hiroki Goto
Kumiko Tashiro
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