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Okko survives the car crash that kills her parents. She goes to live with her grandmother, who runs an old-line hot springs inn. The ghost of a young boy persuades Okko to become the "junior innkeeper". Between the flashbacks, the ghosts only she sees, and the mean girl in school, can she find peace?

This animated film by Kitarô Kôsaka is not just Japanese; it is VERY Japanese, with is old-fashioned virtues of service to others, tradition, and to a westerner, exaggerated fear of losing face. Like all good fantasies, it has a strong symbolic message to support the surface plot. Then visual style combines full animation of simple yet effective character design with lush, almost candybox background work.

This film was a solid insight into Japanese values and culture. Tradition, death, work ethic, youth, aging, family, spirits, health, food, healing and respect, all set in a beautiful hot spring onsen (bath) village sea side community. There's a lot to like about this film, and even more so if you're ready to look at culture's outside of hollywood western brat formats. A fun watch if a little bit by the numbers for Japanese values.

A beautiful film, ideal to teach a child what death is.

A lonely female child going to a small town and becoming part of the local culture and growing while being supported by supernatural friends is already a formula, one that has served Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli well. If you like this kind of thing, you will like Okko's Inn.

The problem, though, is that events don't naturally flow from one to another. It's a cute girl going through processing of personal drama, but her behavior is almost robotic. And I don't mean STTNG's "Hero Worship" type of thing, it's just that she goes through all of the actions required by the script without any internal conflict. She starts off afraid of countryside insects, but accepts ghosts immediately, for example. Maybe it was an editing problem, but I doubt it.

In order for a story to hit, things need to happen for a reason that is clear to the audience and slightly forcing to the characters. A person who just does what she was supposed to do and then the movie ends doesn't really fall into that.

Bottom line: really cute, satisfactory, but totally predictable and derivative.

I really love to watch anime movies like this, it moves your heart and soul, so much that it leaves you happy and relieved or relaxed at the end.

I am an adult person who is simply tired, nay exhausted, with all the churned out negativity, post apocalyptic, dark, depressing, soul sucking churn out from the anglosphere.

On a rainy day, I decided to watch this anime in the hope of a little colour, in the hope of a little hope.

Two hours later, having laughed, and cried, and clapped, in other words, having been thoroughly entertained for a change, I knew I had to come here and write a review.

This is just a beautiful movie, a delightful story that stays with you.

Okko's Inn has the purity of spirit, of love, of energy that is so sadly lacking in the Anglosphere these days and I did not realise just how much I was missing this.

Ten stars and THANK YOU to the creators.

We enjoyed it! It was good and fun. What a great innkeeper! Great food scene too near the end of the middle, lots of food. Pretty nice and cute movie! We'd stay at this inn, love the food

I really thought they were going to go more into the ghosts and their backstory after the first half of the movie, but really this movie is just about "hard work" and "Japanese values" and things like that. I guess if you're REALLY into Japanese inns, then this might be a great movie. For me, I had to fast forward the end because I couldn't take it anymore. The one little twist was nice (in a sad way), but that was it. Maybe they could have focused more on her difficulty with losing her parents and less on this weird stuff about working at an inn. That is just my personal opinion.

A beautiful film, that progressively got me more teary eyed as it went on. I'm a sucker for any movie that deals with loss like this, hits so close to home and I appreciate experiencing a good cry sometimes

Ok, I don't really make reviews on movies I love, but I'm making an exception for this one. The story of Okko's Inn will glue you to your screen. The plot of this movie has this sense of calm and excitement. I was amazed on how the twist of the story entered the scene, that I literally clapped my hands momentarily.

I normally know where the story of films I watch take me, but for Okko's Inn I was caught by surprise. I love how the plot took my enthusiasm to watch it higher and higher, then all of a sudden, the great Twist comes in. It's like fireworks everywhere.

I love this film that it tops my list, above Spirited Away.

Lastly, if you have shallow tears, a hankie or a tissue will come in handy.

It amazes me every time I watch another anime movie...the simplicity and modesty, that are one of the few but most important examples we should see in every anime movie, and in movies in general...as an educative example for kids mostly. Himura Kenshin would be a good example.

I think that the importance of such things, is being omitted in many reviews...and as such the awareness bar is being kept very low.

The natural dialog and the unique feeling of entertainment, is not only for the mind but for the heart too...and is something that cannot be taken lightly.

Images and graphics are nothing without the soul/heart of the picture. Depicting the/a story meaningfully in a way that helps you be a better child/teen and even a mature man or woman.

I guess that's why they are the best:)

Watched this with my family, this is such a beautiful movie. Beautiful in both animation and plot. This movie was amazing! My family and I cried while watching this movie.

I found it worthless from the beginning. It was boring until the end. It is not worth watching it. It is impossible for an elementary school student, Oriko, to work at an old inn. So many jokes about Steve Jobs, Tolstoy and Walt Disney are really boring. Whoever they make this story, it was meaningless. The Japanese hot springs and the child features were cute characters. So I give it three stars.

I might say that this film is not going to overall improve animation of the 2010's as a whole considering they might always have more disgusting shows & films after the decade is over later, but at the moment it is really doing good, and it is unique, I just think that as time goes on the Gkids company is going to get even better.

I am a big animation fan. My newsfeed gets crowded with articles of "Top 100 Best Animated Movies" or even "100 underrated anime films" and this film still has yet to ever show up. Whenever I bring it up to people no one has ever seen it. I just saw the Blu-ray one day at Target, thought it looked interesting and gave it a watch. The film has a "100%" on Rotten Tomatoes. How is it that no one is talking about this film? It's like it is a film I just dreamt up one day, or I entered another dimension and only I know about this film. But it is real! And it is Good!

"Okko's Inn" follows a girl named Okko as she goes off to live with her grandma who runs an inn. It is one of the sweetest most heartwarming stories I've ever seen. The animation is adorable. Looking behind the scenes a lot of the animators worked on Studio Ghibli Films, and this one definitely has that feel. The main character is infectiously optimistic.

The movie does have some pacing problems. A lot of the movie is spent just chilling with the characters. If you are watching the film and wondering, "what's the big deal?" Just keep watching, this is a film where the ending is the best part. It takes the movie from just being good, to being one of the best. It hits hard with the feels, it hits everyone emotional beat just right, and ends on the pitch perfect frame to end the film on.

Just go and watch it, you won't regret it.

When one spends even a small amount of time exploring Japanese animation, it quickly seems as if like fare from elsewhere simply won't do any more. Or at least that's been my experience; give me the predominant 2D style of anime over day over the best 3D rendering that Disney, Pixar, or DreamWorks have to offer. As far as I'm concerned we routinely get a resplendent visual experience from Japanese studios that their counterparts in other regions just can't match, with rich detail and texture, vibrant color, fine consideration for lighting, shading, and color, gorgeous backgrounds and environments, superb designs for characters, creatures, and other active elements, fluid and exciting action, dazzling effects, and so on. Moreover, computer-generated imagery commonly ages rapidly and looks worse the more we see of it, but employed sparingly in modern anime as embellishment or augmentation, the result tends to be pretty sharp. No, it's not as if all anime is equal - but even if the art style of 'Okko's Inn' is arguably a tad more simplistic, I don't think there's much arguing that it looks great, and is lovely and charming as it immerses us in the world of the movie. Where the flick does deign to be more sophisticated and indulgent with the sights to greet us the results are fantastic, and I can't help but love the character designs. It's a promising start even before the story particularly begins.

I'm also well of the mind that storytelling in anime films tends to be a step above kindred fare, though again it's not true across the board. One doesn't need to know anything about the source material to quickly gain a sense that this piece is geared for a younger audience, or in the very least is is of a much more lighthearted and cutesy tenor, and is perhaps less outright substantive. Yet that doesn't make it any less endearing, enjoyable, and satisfying with the gentle, warm narrative and themes that it does have to impart. Young orphan Okko, given to the care of her grandmother, begins to learn the ropes at her small inn, while also benefiting from the friendship of spirits that only she can see. What ensues is a sweet comedy-drama with garnishes of light humor while touching upon broad notions of empathy, compassion, hospitality, finding happiness in that of others, and maturing through responsibility. With more dramatic beats come soft emphasis of loss, grief, and acceptance, yet even as some more difficult emotions come into play the picture remains low-key and cozy, deftly weaving all together into an organic blend. The lighter moments remain grounded, the heavier moments are approached delicately, and the sum total is engaging and rewarding even if it's never specifically striking. Not every feature needs to be a revelation, and 'Okko's Inn' is splendid exactly as it is.

Rounded out with admirable voice acting, pleasant music, and firm direction, this really is a minor joy when all is said and done. It's not the sort of title that is likely to have praise enthusiastically lavished upon it, but nor is it of any such a mind. 'Okko's Inn' is nothing if not a comfortable, warmhearted diversion, and in some measure the sort to suggest meaningful takeaways for the younger viewers, and no matter one's demographics there's much to appreciate here in every capacity. I'd hardly say one needs to go out of their way for it, but if you're looking for something of a bent that's more good-natured and refreshing, this will absolutely fit the bill. I'm very pleased with how good 'Okko's Inn' is, and I'm glad to give it my solid recommendation.