SHIRANUI
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8/21/2026Runtime
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Summer 1996 – Minato, a 10-year-old boy, is neglected by his alcoholic father and keeps to himself at home in a town by the sea. His only source of solace is Ben-chan, a girl goddess that appears on Benten Island. As Minato faces a new life in an orphanage and a painful parting from Ben-chan, he makes a wish to Shiranui for her. However, growing hatred toward his father gradually turns the wish into a malicious "curse" against him…
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A haunting animated meditation on a lonely child's desperation and the corrosive power of unresolved hurt, rendered in the hushed, watercolor atmosphere of a 1990s seaside town. The film dwells in the space between childlike magical thinking and the dawning awareness of irreversible loss.
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