Drifting Home

About Drifting Home

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.

Hiroyasu Ishida's Drifting Home is a 2022 animation fantasy film. The film is filed under slice of life, magic realism, summer vacation, and children.

Mutsumi Tamura takes the lead as Kosuke Kumagaya (voice), Asami Seto as Natsume Tonai (voice), Ayumu Murase as Noppo (voice), and Daiki Yamashita as Yuzuru Tachibana (voice). Released in September 2022, it runs 121 minutes.

The screenplay is by Hayashi Mori and Hiroyasu Ishida. Production companies include Studio Colorido and Twin Engine. In the United States it streams on Netflix and Netflix Standard with Ads.

anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day - The Movie, Her Blue Sky, and Aria the Crepuscolo make useful companions to Drifting Home, all filed under coming of age and friendship. TMDB voters put it at 7.4 out of 10 across 363 votes and it carries a PG rating.