skunkandburningtires: First Look: Mamoru Hosoda’s ‘Mirai’ Mamoru Hosoda, the Japanese director of hi
skunkandburningtires: First Look: Mamoru Hosoda’s ‘Mirai’ Mamoru Hosoda, the Japanese director of hit animated feature The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Summer Wars, Wolf Children and The Boy and the Beast, is back with his newest film, Mirai. Mirai is about a 4-year old boy who is struggling to cope with the arrival of a little sister – until things turn magical. A mysterious garden in the backyard of the boy’s home becomes a gateway allowing the child to travel back in time and encounter his mother as a little girl and his great-grandfather as a young man. These fantasy-filled adventures allow the child to change his perspective and help him become the big brother he was meant to be. Hosoda told Variety: “There is a common thread in the themes of my films. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time was about youth. Summer Wars was about family, Wolf Children was about motherhood. The Boy and The Beast was about the father, and my new film is about the relationship between brothers and sisters. Mirai is about a boy who is trying to reclaim the love of his parents. “If I decided to tell the story of a brother and sister, it’s because after the birth of my second child, our eldest one got the impression that this newly arrived baby stole her parents, which made her ferociously jealous.” Mirai hits Japanese movie theaters July 20, 2018. GKIDS has announced it has acquired the North American distribution rights and will release the film theatrically this fall in both its original Japanese language and a new English dubbed version. Quotes and plot description via Variety -- source link
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