Stars: Damien Bichir, Evan Whitten, Christian Slater, Ashley Ciarra While parents are seldom found in Shinkai’s films, their exclusion here is felt. The spectacle of a Shinkai film is part of what people love about them, and here the best of CoMix Wave Films’ panoply is reserved for grass, ruins and stars. It’s a film that imagines modern Japan as a post-apocalyptic setting, evoking the animated beauty and “mono no aware” of pastoral iyashikei.
From onsen towns and amusement parks that didn’t survive recessions, to abandoned schools and buried towns, Sōta closes doors that, left open, invite disaster.
Sōta (Hokuto Matsumura and Josh Keaton), a Closer, is on the search for doors in Japan’s many abandoned communities. The 17-year-old lives in Kyushu with her aunt Tamaki (Eri Fukatsu and Jennifer Sun Bell), when a mysterious and very pretty boy crosses her path looking for a door. In Suzume, Suzume Iwato (Nanoka Hara and Nichole Sakura) is an orphan from Tohoku. Shinkai’s filmography had come to be characterized by love stories and blue skies, but also by existential threats and apocalyptic events. Makoto Shinkai had already courted comparisons to legendary director Hayao Miyazaki when his 2016 film Your Name rewrote records-and expectations-for anime around the world. Stars: Nanoka Hara, Hokuto Matsumura, Eri Fukatsu, Shota Sometani, Sairi Ito, Kotone Hanase, Kana Hanazawa, Matsumoto Hakuō II Here are 15 of the biggest new kids movies from the last few months: We’re keeping a running list of the latest movies for children for you to peruse and find something that the whole family might enjoy.
I was always so thankful for those rare family films made with the same kind of care that went into the latest arthouse flick. And I also remember feeling like studios took advantage of that desperation for entertainment, filling the latest unoriginal script with enough silly gags that the little ones would giggle as the parents checked the time.
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As the father of three young adults, I remember clearly those days when we’d watch just about any new kids movie that was released.
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