I just watched this movie, and I was just wondering what became of Souhei. Did he go on to junior high, or did he decide to become a lone wolf like Ame? It's too bad that he felt like he was going be replaced by his step-brother.
shareAt the end of the film there is a photograph of the older Yuki at school standing next to a young man that I thought could have been Souhei.
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That's actually Hana. If you watch the movie with the English songs/signs subtitles and the English dub, the sign says Junior High and the narrator (Yuki) explains that her mother came to visit her at school.
Because of how Japanese schools work, it's actually likely that Souhei simply transferred to the same junior high school that Yuki did.
In any case, it doesn't matter, because Wolf Children isn't his story, or even Yuki's. It's Hana's, and she barely knows the boy. And that's an important thing to understand about the movie that might be easy to miss. Yuki is telling the story of her mother.
- Dark Reality
Haha! I think you might be looking at the wrong picture. Just before the one of Yuki and Hana, there is a shot of a few other photos stuck on the fridge. The most central photo has Yuki with her friends and it looks like Souhei just behind them (he's mostly obscured by another photo, but it definitely looks like him). Also, to confirm that it is a Junior High photo, they are all wearing a school uniform (they didn't wear uniforms for school in the film).
But I also agree, Wolf Children is Hana's story. I don't understand why people think the film needs more closure for the children. I think the ending had more than enough closure and was perfectly satisfactory and wonderful, and definitely does not need a sequel. This is a story about a mother doing everything in her power, even giving up her own life, to raise her children to be amazing people (or wolves). By the end of the film the children leave home and she is happy having raised her children well. This is the story of every good parent.
Kinda of waste for Hana. She's in college, has to drop out because she got pregnant and then ends up living alone in the booneys in near poverty.
shareIt's only a waste if she regrets it. She loved her family and seems to have no regrets with having children.
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Kinda of waste for Hana. She's in college, has to drop out because she got pregnant and then ends up living alone in the booneys in near poverty.
I think that he's only partly visible is a hint that he won't be playing a big role in Yuki's life anymore.
In the German dub they say that Yuki transfered to an all-girls boarding school (or was it dorm).
They also made it sound like Hana just lived there till the end. Did she have many friends there? I feel not. I wanted to start a thread "I wished she was dead" because I feel sorry for her. She only ever really cared for her kids and their father. They could at least have said that Ame visited her for tea or something or that she found another man. On the other hand it was real love between her and her children's father and they will sure meet again like when she almost drowned. I just wished there was more closure for her in the movie. She gave up everything, ruined her health and risked her life. One could argue that this is a really conservative view on womanhood.
Well Souhei accepted Yuki for who/what she was so I assumed they continued to pursue each other! :) I like happy endings!
shareSouhei was one of my favourite characters!! So sweet!
shareI thought that maybe he and Yuki got together. But I could be wrong.
sharethere was a picture of a teenage yuki with a teenage boy at high school that i assumed was sohei. i believed they eventually married because they were clearly soulmates.
The manga has an epilogue that shows Yuki and Souhei going to school together and still being friends.
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