
Natsume's Book of Friends the Movie: Ephemeral Bond
A gentle, wistful wander through rural Japan where quiet supernatural encounters stir bittersweet memories and a soft ache of longing.
- Directed by
- Hideki Ito, Takahiro Omori
- Genres
- Animation, Fantasy, Drama
- Starring
- Hiroshi Kamiya, Kazuhiko Inoue, Kazuma Horie
- Overview
- Natsume has been busy, navigating between humans and Yokai when he coincidentally reunites with an old classmate, Yuki. It brings back painful memories of a certain Yokai. Meanwhile, Natsume also became acquainted with Yorie Tsumura, a woman in the memories of a Yokai whose name he had returned. Yorie knew much about Reiko, but now lived a peaceful life with her only son, Mukuo. Being with this family was comforting for Natsume, but apparently a mysterious Yokai has been lurking in their town. On the way back from investigating, a “Yokai seed” that had latched itself to Nyanko Sensei drops into the Fujiwaras’ garden and grows overnight into a fruit tree. When Nyanko Sensei eats a fruit that is somehow shaped like himself, he suddenly splits into three!
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- Directed by
- Hideki Ito, Takahiro Omori
- Genres
- Animation, Fantasy, Drama
- Starring
- Hiroshi Kamiya, Kazuhiko Inoue, Kazuma Horie

























