Look Back (2024)

Look Back rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.8/10· 21K votes

Rotten Tomatoes100%

Metacritic90%

TMDb8.1/10· 543 votes

With 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.8/10 on IMDb and 90/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Look Back

Popular, outgoing Fujino is celebrated by her classmates for her funny comics in the class newspaper. One day, her teacher asks her to share the space with Kyomoto, a truant recluse whose beautiful artwork sparks a competitive fervor in Fujino. What starts as jealousy transforms when Fujino realizes their shared passion for drawing.

Cast of Look Back

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  Yuumi Kawai

  as Fujino (voice)

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  Mizuki Yoshida

  as Kyomoto (voice)

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  Yoichiro Saito

  as Homeroom Teacher (voice)

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  Kota Oka

  as Man (voice)

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  Kureha Maki

  as Fujino's Sister (voice)

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  Koya Yoshihashi

  as Editor (voice)

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  Takeshi Miyajima

  as Newscaster (voice)

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  Daisuke Takahashi

  as Announcer (voice)

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  Jun Ito

  as Teacher (voice)

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  Kaori Takeuchi

  as Friend's Mother (voice)

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  Masumi Taira

  as Grandmother (voice)

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  Rina Endou

  as Classmate (voice)

Look Back facts

Original title

ルックバック

Box office

$12.6M

Our take on Look Back

This 2024 anime film distils a story of two girls — one outgoing, one reclusive — bound by drawing manga together, into a brief, overwhelming meditation on creativity, friendship and loss. Spare, beautifully animated and emotionally enormous, it lands like a held breath. If its quiet power and ache moved you, seek out intimate anime films and dramas about artistry, regret and the people who shape who we become.