Ring Wandering

Feb 19, 2022

1h 44m

★ 9.2

Overview

In central Tokyo, a young man, Sosuke, aspires to be a manga artist. His current work is about a battle between a hunter and a Japanese wolf. He can’t draw the extinct wolf well and struggles to develop the story. One winter’s day, Sosuke finds an animal’s skull while digging foundations at a construction site and takes it home. Is it a Japanese wolf’s skull?

Genres

Drama

Fantasy

Production Companies

kinone

Project Dawn

Laughter

monkey syndicate

Ring Wandering Trailers

Cast

Ma Sosuke

Show Kasamatsu

Midori Kawauchi / Kozue

Junko Abe

Seiichi Kawauchi

Ken Yasuda

Aiko Kawauchi

Reiko Kataoka

Ginzo

Hatsunori Hasegawa

Kota Kawauchi (old age)

Tōru Shinagawa

Shioya

Yoji Tanaka

Kota Kawauchi (boy)

Shunta Ito

Momoko Kawauchi

Michiyo Yokoyama

Toshiro Kawauchi

Ryuta Furuya

Daishi Naito

Shūichirō Masuda

Tsuneo Chiba

Manabu Hosoi

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