Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window

2023

Japanese

7.6

♡ 7

Animation

based on memoir or autobiography

based on novel or book

Shinnosuke Yakuwa Director

Anne Watanabe as Cho Kuroyanagi

Karen Takizawa as Miss Oishi

Shun Oguri as Moritsuna Kuroyanagi

Kôji Yakusho as Sôsaku Kobayashi

This engaging series of childhood recollections tells of an unconventional school in Tokyo during World War II that combined learning with fun, freedom, and love. The school had old railroad cars for classrooms and was run by an extraordinary man – its founder and headmaster, Sōsaku Kobayashi – who deeply valued children's independence, and who was a firm believer in freedom of expression and activity.