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Mirai—the latest acclaimed anime film from director Mamoru Hosoda (Wolf Children, The Boy and the Beast, Summer Wars)—recently made its U.S. theatrical debut, and there’s still time to see it for yourself. The next set of showings are scheduled for this week, with subtitled screenings …Read more »
Mamoru Hosoda, director of Summer Wars , Wolf Children and The Boy and the Beast , is working on a new film to be released in May 2018, Variety reports. The film is called Mirai , and it’s about: “a 4-year old boy who is …Read more »
For three years in a row, the Tokyo International Film Festival has honored an anime director with a series of retrospectives and talk events based around that director’s filmography. Two years ago, it was Evangelion ’s Hideaki Anno ; last year, Mobile Suit Gundam creator …Read more »
Featured Spotlight: Mamoru Hosoda has been delighting anime fans with instant classics for years, from 2006's The Girl Who Leapt Through Time to 2010's Summer Wars and 2012's Wolf Children . Now his latest anime film The Boy and the Beast is finally getting ready …Read more »
Now this is cool. As we mentioned of our review of The Boy and the Beast , the new Mamoru Hosoda ( Wolf Children , Summer Wars ) film, one of the film’s primary locations is Shibuya, the real-life Tokyo ‘hood famed for its shopping, …Read more »
Mamoru Hosoda is back. The director of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time , Summer Wars and Wolf Children ’s first film in three years, The Boy and the Beast ( Bakemono no Ko ), premiered this past weekend in Japan and proceeded to take …Read more »
The Boy and the Beast , the highly-anticipated new film from director Mamoru Hosoda ( Wolf Children ) is set to hit some theaters in the States in February, with others to follow in March, according to theater listings. It’ll be Hosoda’s first film to …Read more »
The hype train for the new Mamoru Hosoda film, The Boy and the Beast , is chugging along at full steam. And speaking of chugging, the latest ad for the film features its main characters gulping down some Green Dakara, a Japanese drink brand. The …Read more »
FUNimation kicked off the weekend by announcing its acquisition of The Boy and the Beast , the latest anime film from acclaimed director Mamoru Hosoda ( Wolf Children , Summer Wars ). In an agreement with Gaumont International, FUNimation landed exclusive rights to theatrical, digital, …Read more »
It took nearly two decades, but Yoshiyuki Sadamoto’s manga adaptation of Neon Genesis Evangelion finally concluded last month with the release of volume 14. Sadamoto of course, is best known for his character designs for the original anime, along with designs for works such as …Read more »
Yesterday we posted about the reveal of the next anime movie from Mamoru Hosoda , the acclaimed director behind The Girl Who Leapt Through Time , Summer Wars , and more. Bakemono no Ko ( The Boy and the Beast ) is scheduled to premiere …Read more »
Fans of director Mamoru Hosoda ( Summer Wars , Wolf Children ), will be jumping for joy with the news his next film has been announced. It’s called The Boy and The Beast ( Bakemono no Ko ) and is set to be released in …Read more »
The live-action adaptation of Eiko Kadono's Kiki's Delivery Service fantasy novels—most known for the Studio Ghibli anime film directed by Hayao Miyazaki—is coming to Japanese theaters on March 1. We've seen some footage in the past, and now website Crank In!! has some fresh stills …Read more »
Mamoru Hosoda, director of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006), Summer Wars (2010), and the first two Digimon movie shorts (1999-2000), appeared at the New York International Children’s Film Festival on March 9, 2013 to present his newest animated feature, Wolf Children , and …Read more »
Wolf Children is Mamoru Hosoda’s third full-length feature (and the third to premiere in the U.S. at the New York International Children’s Film Festival) and it continues his streak of artistically superior works of animation that also happen to be real crowd-pleasers. As good as …Read more »
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