Full trailer for ‘Kodomo no Kodomo’

Posted by Kevin Ouellette at 6:32am on Wednesday, August 27, 2008 EDT

Filed under: Drama, Future releases, Trailer Updates

Kodomo no Kodomo flyerIn Koji Hagiuda‘s adaptation of Akira Saso’s manga series Kodomo no Kodomo (literally “child of a child”), newcomer Haruna Amari plays an 11-year-old 5th grader (also named Haruna) who gets pregnant. Now, the obvious question you may be asking right now is, “Gahhh?!” From what I can gather the actual knocking up involves a seemingly innocent and completely oblivious “Let’s put these together” experiment between Haruna and her male friend Hiroyuki. It’s really not that bizarre when you think about it. Avoiding mistakes like that is basically the main reason there’s sex education in grammar schools in the first place.

The new full-length trailer (see below) seems to back up Jason Gray’s thoughts on the film. It appears to be tactfully handled without any sort of creep-out factor that people may have been worried about when this adaptation was first announced.

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“Kodomo no Kodomo” opens in Japan on September 27th.

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Comments

got a good feeling about this one, feels like something of a sleeper.

Posted by logboy at 11:19am EDT on Wednesday, August 27, 2008

“From what I can gather the actual knocking up involves a seemingly innocent and completely oblivious “Let’s put these together” experiment between Haruna and her male friend Hiroyuki.”

That’s exactly what it is. They go behind big tree and…voila. The little boy stays pretty clued out about the whole thing, but Haruna has no choice but to mature beyond her years.

I have a feeling it’ll become a minor festival hit that’ll win “worried” people over once they see it.

Posted by jg at 9:15pm EDT on Wednesday, August 27, 2008

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