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Penguin Highway
Directed by
Hiroyasu Ishida
Not Rated
2019
1h 58m
Animation
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Comedy
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7.1
100%
77%
7.2
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A fourth-grader, Aoyama-kun, investigates the mysterious reason behind the sudden appearance of penguins in his village, which is somehow related to a power from a young woman working at a dental clinic.
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Cast of Penguin Highway
Kana Kita
Aoyama-kun (voice)
Rie Kugimiya
Uchida (voice)
Yu Aoi
Onē-san (voice)
Miki Fukui
Suzuki (voice)
Misaki Kuno
Aoyama's Sister (voice)
Megumi Han
Hamamoto (voice)
Mamiko Noto
Aoyama's Mother (voice)
Hidetoshi Nishijima
Aoyama's Father (voice)
Naoto Takenaka
Hamamoto's Father (voice)
Hiroyasu Ishida
Director
Makoto Ueda
Screenplay
Tomihiko Morimi
Novel
Sho Ohtani
Associate Producer
Tetsuya Nakatake
Associate Producer
Katsuhiro Takei
Producer
Yoko Matsuzaki
Executive Producer
Koji Yamamoto
Executive Producer
Taku Matsuo
Producer
Noriko Ozaki
Producer
Takamasa Masuki
Art Direction
Penguin Highway Ratings & Reviews
Asian Movie Pulse
Panos Kotzathanasis
Hiroyasu Ishida directs an anime in the style mostly established by the aforementioned in the prologue, mixing fantasy with reality, through a story mostly involving children but actually carrying messages that are addressed to adults.
FilmWeek (LAist)
Charles Solomon
This is a very promising, engaging film... Strange and charming.
Sunshine State Cineplex
Alan French
The use of CG to augment the hand-drawn animation continues to push the boundaries of how to integrate the new technology into traditional Japanese animation.
Sean Chandler Talks About
Sean Chandler
I enjoyed it more than Spirited Away, because it's more straight-forward. This one is weird, but it's also grounded to human emotions.
Chicago Reader
Andrea Gronvall
Making his feature debut, 30-year-old director Hiroyasu Ishida confidently adapts Tomihiko Morimi's bestselling coming-of-age novel, gracefully segueing...
Spectrum Culture
Pat Padua
Comes off as if a lascivious purveyor of adult-oriented anime got their hands on a Miyazaki project.
San Francisco Chronicle
G. Allen Johnson
The joy of discovery is at the heart of "Penguin Highway," a delightful new anime that is about the mysteries of life, both scientific and personal. Oh, and it's about penguins, too.
IGN Movies
Natasha H.
Penguin Highway is a sweet and charming movie that revisits it's like to be young and curious again.
CBR
Reuben Baron
Those who love the art of animation and want to seek out something new and different from the norm are advised to see Penguin Highway.
The Young Folks
AJ Caulfield
Enchanting, exuberant, and odd enough to stick to the sides of one's brain for days post-viewing, Penguin Highway is a must-watch for anime fans. And for people yearning for a heady hit of bliss to brighten their dark days. For everyone, really.
Rachel's Reviews (YouTube)
Rachel Wagner
It is a weird movie and it's kind of an anime version of Stranger Things...but it's charming in its own way
Variety
Peter Debruge
An irresistibly out-there mystery that plays like a cross between "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and "Stranger Things," if either of those influences' sense of horror were replaced with wonder...
Common Sense Media
Joyce Slaton
Magic, mystery, some mature content in lovely anime.
Diario La Estrella (Fort Worth, TX)
Laura Hiros
An unforgettable summer adventure. [Full review in Spanish]
Maven's Nest
Nora Lee Mandel
Charming anime children's story that also celebrates science education...Follows the child scientist doing careful scientific observation... though writing is un-translated.
ChrisStuckmann.com
Chris Stuckmann
A wonderful film that uses unexplainable phenomena as a backdrop for childhood innocence and discovery.
Washington City Paper
Amy Guay
Backed by a gorgeous score, Aoyama's quest for answers is only somewhat satisfied by the time the credits roll. And that is perfectly fine, Ishida seems to say.
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