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Animal Crossing: The Movie

Animal Crossing: The Movie

Do you want to live in Animal Crossing?

20066.81h 27m

Overview

Ai, a self-reliant girl who moves to Animal Village and works at Nook's Cranny, gradually becomes part of the community with guidance from its residents and embarks on a quest to plant pine trees for a Winter Festival miracle after finding a message in a bottle.

Directed by Joji Shimura
Written by Aya Matsui, Takenori Kawada, Jouji Shimura
Produced by Makoto Ōmura, Takuya Yui, Fumiyoshi Kajiya
Box Office0Revenue: $16.2M

Top Cast

Yui Horie

Yui Horie

Ai (voice)

Misato Fukuen

Misato Fukuen

Buke (voice)

Fumiko Orikasa

Fumiko Orikasa

Sari (voice)

Yu Kobayashi

Yu Kobayashi

Yuu (voice)

Takatoshi Kaneko

Takatoshi Kaneko

Alberto (voice)

Masaki Terasoma

Masaki Terasoma

Apollo (voice)

Yurika Hino

Yurika Hino

Bianka (voice)

Yasuhiro Takato

Yasuhiro Takato

Saruo (voice)

Kazuya Tatekabe

Kazuya Tatekabe

Alan (voice)

Yuji Ueda

Yuji Ueda

Sakurajima (voice)

Themes & Keywords

slice of lifebased on video gameanime

About Animal Crossing: The Movie

Animal Crossing: The Movie is a animation, drama, family film released in 2006 exploring themes of slice of life, based on video game, anime. Directed by Joji Shimura, it stars Yui Horie, Misato Fukuen, Fumiko Orikasa. Ai, a self-reliant girl who moves to Animal Village and works at Nook's Cranny, gradually becomes part of the community with guidance from its residents and embarks on a quest to plant pine trees for a Winter Festival miracle after finding a message in a bottle.

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