Director: Daisuke Nishio

Cast: Haruto Shima, Hiroshi Iwasaki, Kazuhiro Yamaji, Ikkei Watanabe, Sakiko Uran

Magic Candies is a 2025 Japanese animated fantasy film directed by Daisuke Nishio, following a quietly lonely child whose world opens up after a chance purchase at a candy shop reveals that the ordinary can hold extraordinary voices and hidden inner lives.

What is Magic Candies about?

Dong-Dong is a soft-spoken boy who has grown used to spending his afternoons alone, rolling marbles across the pavement while other children organize their own games without him. Then a small bag of multicolored candies changes everything. Each piece unlocks something unexpected — the ability to hear the thoughts and feelings of the world around him, whether from objects, animals, or the quiet spaces between people. As Dong-Dong moves through his neighborhood with this new perception, he begins to understand why connections have felt so hard to form and what it might mean to truly reach out to someone else. The film unfolds gently, without rushing toward resolution, letting the strangeness of the premise breathe alongside the boy's inner emotional landscape.

Cast & crew

The film is directed by Daisuke Nishio, a veteran of Japanese animation known for long-running series and children's features. The voice cast includes Haruto Shima and Hiroshi Iwasaki alongside Kazuhiro Yamaji, Ikkei Watanabe, and Sakiko Uran, bringing a range of warmth and texture to the ensemble of voices Dong-Dong gradually learns to hear.

Context & significance

For Persian-speaking audiences in the diaspora, Magic Candies offers the kind of quiet, emotionally grounded animated storytelling that resonates across languages and borders. Japanese animation has long held a special place among Iranian viewers of all ages, and this short feature continues that tradition with a story about childhood solitude and the longing to be understood — feelings that travel well across cultures. The film is in its original Japanese audio without Persian dubbing or subtitles, so it is best suited for viewers comfortable with subtitled viewing or families exploring world animation together.

Where & how to watch

Magic Candies is available to watch on K-Time. The film plays in its original Japanese audio without Persian dubbing or subtitles. Stream it on your browser, TV, or phone with no VPN needed and no geo-blocking. Cancel your K-Time subscription anytime.