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Drifting Home (2022)

★ 7.3 · 335 ratings on TMDB

What is the secret hidden in the apartment complex?

Drifting Home poster★ 7.3

One fateful summer, a group of elementary school kids set adrift on an abandoned apartment building must look within themselves to find a way back home.

DirectorHiroyasu Ishida
CastAsami Seto, Ayumu Murase, Bin Shimada, Daiki Yamashita, Inori Minase, Kana Hanazawa
GenresAdventure, Animation, Fantasy
The emergence reading

Drifting Home keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing memory, grief, friendship, survival, growth.

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Also inFilms about griefFilms about memoryFilms about survival
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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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