Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko

Ayumu Watanabe
2021-06-11


7.145
97 min

Nikuko is a brash, jolly, scattered, and passionate woman in an otherwise sleepy seaside town in northern Japan. She’s also the single mother of 11-year-old Kikuko, who is her opposite in many ways. Kikuko is a string-bean of a young girl, pensive, quietly curious, and methodical in how she approaches life in this small harbor town. Nikuko embarrasses Kikuko as any mom of a preteen would, but Nikuko’s bold spirit makes her especially well-known in a town where Kikuko herself wants nothing more than to simply blend in. As Kikuko navigates the everyday social dramas of middle school, enhanced with touches of magical realism from her ever-present imagination, a shocking revelation from the past threatens to uproot the pair’s tender relationship.

Cast

Name Character Team
Shinobu Ôtake Nikuko-chan (voice) Unowned
Cocomi Kikuko (voice) Unowned
Natsuki Hanae Ninomiya (voice) Unowned
Ikuji Nakamura Sassan (voice) Unowned
Izumi Ishii Maria (voice) Unowned
Atsushi Yamanishi Zenji (voice) Unowned
Yuichi Yasoda Old man at the aquarium / Other characters (voice) Unowned
Matsuko Deluxe Darcia (voice) Unowned
Riho Yoshioka Miu (voice) Unowned
Hiro Shimono Lizard / Gecko (voice) Unowned
Rena Motomura (voice) Unowned
Koko Ueno (voice) Unowned