Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms

Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms

2018 · 115 min · JA · PG-13 · 8.1 (744 votes)
Dir. Mari Okada · Starring Manaka Iwami, Miyu Irino, Yuuki Sakurai, Ai Kayano, Yuki Kaji, Yoshimasa Hosoya · Music Kenji Kawai

“I weave my life with yours.”

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Fleeing the war, the immortal Maquia, graced with eternal youth, finds a baby abandoned in the forest and decides to raise it as her own child, sparking a moving story between a mortal and a being who does not age.

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This is a deeply moving, visually stunning journey through the bittersweet beauty of an immortal's love for a mortal child. It's an emotionally rich, melancholic epic that explores the profound joys and inevitable heartbreaks of motherhood and the relentless march of time, leaving a tender, poignant ache.

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