Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window

A film that clearly thinks kids are people. Expelled from public school, young Totto-chan finds a home at an alternative academy run by a benevolent, if eccentric, headmaster. Its gentle lessons perhaps work best on the very young.

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Shinnosuke Yakuwa directed Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window in 2023. See Shinnosuke Yakuwa's full filmography, where to start with Shinnosuke Yakuwa, or where to go after you've seen everything by Shinnosuke Yakuwa.

Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window was released in 2023 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 114 minutes.