Brave Story

A quiet Tokyo afternoon, textbooks tossed aside. Wataru and his friends hunt for ghosts in the skeleton of a half-demolished school. Mitsuru presses a brass door knob that shouldn’t exist; beyond it, a world where fate is tendered like coins. A director steeped in 1980s anime magic delivers adolescent wishes with barely a wink.

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Koichi Chigira directed Brave Story in 2006. See Koichi Chigira's full filmography, where to start with Koichi Chigira, or where to go after you've seen everything by Koichi Chigira.

Brave Story was released in 2006 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 112 minutes.