What is the name of a movie on [adult swim] where children run around an...

grill_gus

I remember watching a Japanese anime movie on [adult swim] years ago about a group of children wandering around a city that resembles Tokyo, with lion statues and torii . I've looked through this list but none of the movies listed match what I remember. For a long time, I thought the name of the movie was Battle Royale , but I later learned this was false. I think the reason I believed the name was Battle Royale was because it seemed like a...

Originally asked by NobleUplift on Stack Exchange (movies) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

The movie, if I'm not mistaken, was a Halloween special that aired once and then never again called Kakurenbo aka Kakurenbo: Hide & Seek. A young boy named Hikora enters the ruins of a forbidden city with a group of other children to play "Otokoyo" (a game of hide-and-seek where the players are said to be kidnapped by ghosts and demons) to find his missing sister. - IMDb

Full answer by user20985: https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/33968 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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