If you loved Twelve Months, try Coo of the Far Seas

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Twelve Months

1980 · dir. Kimio Yabuki, Yugo Serikawa, Tetsuo Imazawa

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Both films are directed by Tetsuo Imazawa, and they both carry the cozy, tender mood tags, and they sit in Adventure / Animation territory. If that's the register that drew you to Twelve Months, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Coo of the Far Seas is

E.T. if it chirped. A boy finds a baby plesiosaur after a typhoon. Soon, others come looking for the dinosaur, complicating their idyllic island life. A pleasant, minor entry in the '90s kid-and-creature canon.

If you loved Twelve Months, try Coo of the Far Seas

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