Summer Days with Coo

(2007)

★ 7.8 IMDb · 146 votes

Genres: Animation, Fantasy, Comedy, Romance, Drama, Family

Year: 2007

Runtime: 138 мин

Country: Japan

Director: 原恵一

Cast: 冨澤風斗, Такахиро Йококава, 田中直樹, 松元環季, なぎら健壱, Nanako Hirata, Кёске Икеда, Kazuki Matsuoka, Souta Murakami, Saki Yoshihara

Plot

A small, lone Kappa miraculously survives over 200 years into modern day Japan, when he is found by young Koichi. Coo, who is secretly adopted by Koichi's family, searches with his new human friend for unpopulated places in hopes of finding any remaining of his kind.

Kôichi Uehara is a fourth grade student living in Higashikurume City, a suburb of Tokyo. One day he picks up what he thinks to be a fossil of an ancient creature but turns out to be a baby kappa (a mythical Japanese water creature) that was sleeping underground for the past 300 years, and he names it "Coo". Kôichi and Coo become good friends and the kappa starts living with the human boy's family. However, Coo cannot not fully adjust to life in present-day Higashikurume and starts to miss his own family. On a hot summer day, Kôichi and Coo decide to go on an adventurous road trip to find his own kind.