# Brave Story (2006)

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**Original title**: *ブレイブ ストーリー*
**Runtime**: 112 min
**Genres**: Animation, Adventure, Mystery, Fantasy
**Directed by**: Koichi Chigira
**Written by**: Ichiro Okouchi
**Starring**: Takako Matsu, Eiji Wentz, Shirō Itō, Ayako Kawasumi, Chiwa Saito, Satomi Korogi

> *Are you brave enough to change your fate?*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

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.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, tender

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