Penguin Highway

2018, Adventure/Anime, 1h 58m

24 Reviews 100+ Ratings

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Movie Info

A fourth-grade student investigates when penguins appear in his village.
  • Genre:
    Adventure, Anime
  • Original Language:
    Japanese
  • Director:
    Hiroyasu Ishida
  • Writer:
    Makoto Ueda
  • Release Date (Theaters):
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  • Distributor:
    Eleven Arts

Cast & Crew

Kana Kita
Aoyama-kun
Voice
Yû Aoi
Onê-san
Voice
Miki Fukui
Suzuki
Voice
Megumi Han
Hamamoto
Voice
Rie Kugimiya
Uchida
Voice
Hiroyasu Ishida
Director
Makoto Ueda
Screenwriter
Umitarô Abe
Music
Tetsu Machida
Cinematographer
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Critic Reviews for Penguin Highway

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Audience Reviews for Penguin Highway

  • Feb 19, 2020
    An at times charming and wonderous movie, but all too often a movie that just survives on strangeness and lack of explanation. The weird thing is it overexplains some things, but then other things it never bothers to explain. Why penguins for one? Why is any of this really happening? Never explained, and while it's arguably not important, the movie put a lot of attention this investigation so the lack of answers and overwhelming weirdness of it makes the unresolved element kind of frustrating. It's an overall cute movie, and a nice coming of age story, and often it's beautiful with strong emotions in the right place. Other times though, it's just strange to be strange and even weirdly crass. I don't know, I love penguins, but this one just felt a little off to me.
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