Synopsis
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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Cast
- Mutsumi TamuraKosuke Kumagaya (voice)
- Asami SetoNatsume Tonai (voice)
- Ayumu MuraseNoppo (voice)
- Daiki YamashitaYuzuru Tachibana (voice)
- Yumiko KobayashiTaishi Koiwai (voice)
- Inori MinaseReina Haba (voice)
- Kana HanazawaJuri Ando (voice)
- Bin ShimadaYasuji Kumagaya (voice)
- Rikako AikawaYasuko Kumagaya (voice)
- Nana MizukiSatoko Tonai (voice)
Recommendations
- 75
Polygon
The film is admirable for its patient commitment to unpacking the children’s feelings about each other, the building, and other relics from their pasts, all as they learn how to carry their attachments and memories to new places. - 70
Los Angeles Times
The deep strangeness of Drifting Home can take some time to adjust to. But in this quirky and boisterous picture, the surreal predicament is ultimately just an offshoot of these kids’ common fears about growing up. - 50
RogerEbert.com
It's not a complicated narrative, possibly because the movie’s designed for younger viewers. But the conception of “Drifting Home” is so stunted that its only memorable thing is its untapped potential. - 40
The New York Times
Though Drifting Home delivers a great visual concept . . . it doesn’t deliver on the action. The pacing lags and the beats are predictable; the film’s go-to antic is having children repeatedly topple overboard.
