Summary
A drama of two aging women who live a solitary life collecting discarded items from a nearby town. One day they return home to find a young girl knitting a red sweater in their house. Each time the girl finishes her dress, she promptly unravels it and the mystery unfolds.
Where to watch
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Critics like it more than audiences (+31)
Critics 100Audiences 69GoodWatch 83
Tomatometer100%
Audience score75%
IMDb6.3
Running time
1 h 39 min
A typical length for animated movies, +10 min on the typical 89
typical 8999Half of all animated movies run 80–99 min.
Released
2006
October 28, 2006
20 years ago
Genres
AnimationComedyFantasyLanguage
Japanese
Original language
Made in
Japan
Directing · 2
- Mai Tominaga Director, Screenplay
- Masayuki Taniguchi Other
Production · 5
- Nobuhiko Sako Executive Producer
- Masatoshi Matsue Executive Producer
- Masuo Takahashi Executive Producer
- Kazuhiko Yusa Producer
- Masahiro Harada Producer
Editing · 1
- Katsuichi Nagashima Editor
Sound · 1
- Hiroyasu Yaguchi Original Music Composer
Art · 2
- Yuji Tsuzuki Art Direction
- Hirohide Shibata Set Decoration
Visual Effects · 3
- Kikuji Nakano Visual Effects
- Mariko Matsunari Animation
- Osamu Sakai Animation Director
Lighting · 1
- Tomoharu Ozaki Gaffer
Other crew · 5
- Daichi Ichihara Second Unit
- Alesia Weston Thanks
- Ichiho Maeda Sound Recordist
- Satoshi Seno Cinematography
- Chieko Murata Thanks
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