Film202197 min

Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko

Name: Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family
Released: 2021
Duration: 97 min
Cast: Shinobu Otake, Cocomi, Natsuki Hanae, Ikuji Nakamura, Izumi Ishii

Taste attributes: animationdramafamilycomedyfastfresh & originalwholesomelightimaginarylinearglossyemotive & stirringcomplex relationshipunlikely connections

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Boxlist takeExpect a good-natured, accessible animated family film, heightened rather than true to life. Best if you like escapism over depth.

Taste details

Pace: fast · Originality: fresh · Tone: very wholesome · Weight: very light · Realism: imaginary world · Story: balanced · Structure: very linear · Look: glossy · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score

Quality rating

7.6 /10

TMDB · 25 votes

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What lines up

Originality: Fresh / original, just how this profile likes it
Setting / scale: Balanced setting / scale, just how this profile likes it

What might not click

Weightiness: Light / accessible, where this profile leans weighty / heavy
Wholesomeness: Wholesome, where this profile leans unsavoury

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Synopsis

Nikuko is a brash, jolly, scattered, and passionate woman in an otherwise sleepy seaside town in northern Japan. She’s also the single mother of 11-year-old Kikuko, who is her opposite in many ways. Kikuko is a string-bean of a young girl, pensive, quietly curious, and methodical in how she approaches life in this small harbor town. Nikuko embarrasses Kikuko as any mom of a preteen would, but Nikuko’s bold spirit makes her especially well-known in a town where Kikuko herself wants nothing more than to simply blend in. As Kikuko navigates the everyday social dramas of middle school, enhanced with touches of magical realism from her ever-present imagination, a shocking revelation from the past threatens to uproot the pair’s tender relationship.

Synopsis: TMDB