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Stidio CHIZU and director Mamoru Hosoda—known for Summer Wars, Wolf Children, BELLE and other acclaimed films—have officially revealed their next project. Scarlet, known as Hateshinaki Scarlet in Japan—is set to premiere sometime in winter 2025. Details are light, but Hosoda says this one is based …Read more »
Believe it or not, Mamoru Hosoda’s Summer Wars is 15 years old! The film was released in 2009 to huge acclaim, and is still considered one of the director’s best. Now there’s a new commercial airing in Japan (and on YouTube) celebrating the 15th anniversary …Read more »
The anime films of Mamoru Hosoda officially have a new home. The first four films from the acclaimed director are joining 2018’s Mirai and 2021’s Belle at GKIDS, which now has North American distribution rights for Hosoda’s full catalog. The deal spans 2006’s The Girl …Read more »
It’s been exactly 10 years since the Japanese premiere of Mamoru Hosoda’s Wolf Children anime film, which hit theaters in Japan on July 21, 2012. To mark the occasion, Studio Chizu shared a memorial illustration by animation director Takaaki Yamashita and art director Hiroshi Ohno. …Read more »
BELLE takes inspiration from the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast, but it’s put into the modern world. Teenage Suzu has been struggling emotionally since a tragedy in her early childhood, but when she becomes “Bell” on the virtual platform U, things turn around for …Read more »
The US premiere of Mamoru Hosoda’s BELLE anime film is right around the corner on January 14, and GKIDS is getting ahead of the event with a look at the opening. The latest trailer has arrived to preview the movie’s first three minutes, including the …Read more »
BELLE, Mamoru Hosoda’s new film, is now officially his top grosser. The film has earned 5.87 billion yen (about $53.4 million) at the Japanese box office — that’s more than Hosoda’s Boy and the Beast, which brought in 5.85 billion. And it’s still playing in …Read more »
Director Mamoru Hosoda is riding high off the success of his latest film, BELLE, but that didn’t stop him from recommending some other essential anime you absolutely have to see. During Saturday’s “The Most Useful School in the World” program, Hosoda ran through a list …Read more »
BELLE director Mamoru Hosoda recently appeared to throw some shade at Hayao Miyazaki, but a recent survey put Hosoda in competition with Your Name director Makoto Shinkai, not Miyazaki. Japanese company 1Screen questioned survey respondents whether they liked Mamoru Hosoda’s or Makoto Shinkai’s films more. …Read more »
Director Mamoru Hosoda, whose movie BELLE just opened in Japan, does not think anime treats female characters well. “You only have to watch Japanese animation to see how young women are underestimated and not taken seriously in Japanese society,” he remarked in a recent interview. …Read more »
Director Mamoru Hosoda is preparing to premiere BELLE, a film exploring virtual reality, music, and love. The upcoming film is already proving to be eyecatching, just from the visuals alone. But we’ve been following the production, and there are a few reasons in particular we’re enthralled with …Read more »
Director Mamoru Hosoda is breaking more new ground with his next feature film, BELLE. In addition to opening in standard theaters in Japan on July 16, Hosoda’s latest will mark the director’s first journey to the even bigger screen of IMAX. The latest trailer from …Read more »
Mamoru Hosoda is getting a short-term exhibit of his work at the “Studio Chizu Exhibition at animate ONLYSHOP” located in the Yokohama Vivre building. But even if you’re not local or unable to travel, you can visit the exhibit digitally on July 15. YouTuber and …Read more »
BELLE, the latest anime film from director Mamoru Hosoda, has confirmed its North American distribution via GKIDS. The LA-based distributor came through with a new English-subtitled trailer for the feature, lining it up for a Winter 2021 theatrical debut. GKIDS also plans to put BELLE …Read more »
While we wait for the latest anime film from director Mamoru Hosoda, one of his previous hits is making a comeback in an unexpected way. A musical adaptation has been announced for Hosoda’s 2015 feature Bakemono no Ko, AKA The Boy and the Beast, with …Read more »
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