Kakurenbo
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Kakurenbo: Hide & Seek (カクレンボ), meaning Hide and Seek in Japanese, is a chilling short 25 minute animated CGI film that is based around an innocent children's game. "Otokoyo", as they call it, is a game of hide and seek, played near the ruins of an old city which no one inhabits. Whenever the children play this game, one by one, they go missing, and it is said demons and ghosts are the cause for their disappearances. One night, a boy named Hikora must play this game and enter the forbidden territory of "Otokoyo" in hopes of finding his missing sister. Of note is that this movie uses CGI animation and cel-shading to achieve the look of a traditional animated movie. The result is a movie which bears the appearance of traditional animation, but is as smoothly animated as most CGI movies. The film was aired across the United States as part of Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block on the Halloween of 2005.
Characters
DemonsOnce the eight children pass through the gates to enter the abandoned street, they are pursued by four different demons and then finally by the one who is "it".
It's important for the understanding of the film that when children play Hide and Seek in Japan, the person who is "it" is also referred to as being the demon, or oni. Awards and nominationsKakurenbo premiered in March 2005 at the Tokyo International Anime Fair, where it won the award for Notable Entry in the General Category. In Korea, it received a Best Film Nomination at the Seoul Comics and Animation Festival. It then went on to win Best Short film at the Fantasia Festival in Montreal Trivia
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