Penguin Highway (Blu-ray + DVD) R
A penguin has appeared in my town.
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Blu-ray Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 58 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: August 6, 2019
- Originally Released: 2018
- Label: Shout Factory
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Hiroyasu Ishida | |
Voice: | Kana Kita, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Yû Aoi & Naoto Takenaka |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3.5/5 --
Comes off as if a lascivious purveyor of adult-oriented anime got their hands on a Miyazaki project.
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Spectrum Culture
This is a very promising, engaging film... Strange and charming.
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FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
Rating: 3/4 --
The use of CG to augment the hand-drawn animation continues to push the boundaries of how to integrate the new technology into traditional Japanese animation.
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We Bought a Blog
Rating: 8/10 --
Penguin Highway is a sweet and charming movie that revisits it's like to be young and curious again.
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IGN Movies
A coming-of-age story outfitted with an engaging anthropomorphic overlay that can make you forget you're watching an intimately filmed documentary instead of an animated adventure.
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Hollywood Reporter
An irresistibly out-there mystery that plays like a cross between "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and "Stranger Things," if either of those influences' sense of horror were replaced with wonder...
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Variety
Making his feature debut, 30-year-old director Hiroyasu Ishida confidently adapts Tomihiko Morimi's bestselling coming-of-age novel, gracefully segueing...
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Chicago Reader
Product Description:
This Japanese animated adventure directed by Hiroyasu Ishida follows science enthusiast Aoyama-kun (Kana Kita), a fourth-grader who begins to investigate something strange in his village. He has noticed that penguins have appeared, and somehow their appearance is linked to a lady from his local dentist's office, a link he must explore further to truly understand.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 106,989
- UPC: 826663198911
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
- International Shipping: 2 items