Mamoru Hosoda's latest film revealed: The Boy and The Beast

Ian Wolf

Ian Wolf

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Anime film director Mamoru Hosoda has revealed his latest project, <em>The Boy and The Beast </em>(<em>Bakemono no Ko</em>) will be released on 11 July 2015.



Hosoda, whose past films have included <em>The Girl Who Leapt Through Time</em> and <em>Summer Wars</em>, revealed the details in a Tokyo press conference. The film will be made by his own company Studio Chizu, and will be his first project since <em>Wolf Children</em> back in 2012.

Hosoda described the film thus: "The movie is a training story about a boy who was separated from his parents and becomes a disciple of a <em>bakemono</em> (supernatural creature). It's going to be a traditional yet novel story."

The story is split between Tokyo's Shibuya ward and the <em>bakemono</em> realm or "Shibutenmachi", which are two worlds that are not meant to cross over. However, a lonely boy crosses into the <em>bakemono </em>realm and encounters the lonely <em>bakemono </em>Kumatetsu. Kumatetsu trains up the boy who he renames Kyuta.

While it is not yet known if the film will be shown in the UK, theatrical screenings have already been set for France, with French movie studio Gaumont handling international sales outside of Asia.

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If it is up the standard of Hosoda's previous films, this should be good.
 
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Reminds me that I should probably rewatch Girl Who Leapt Through Time as I didn't really 'get it' as much as I felt I should the first time I watched it. I absolutely adored Summer Wars though.
 
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I adore Wolf Children and went back to see The Girl Who Leapt Through Time after, both brilliant movies. Never seen Summer Wars but I need to before this surfaces...

Really like the sound of this so far, hopefully it lives up to Mamoru's previous works. ^^
 
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Nice, I was wondering when he'd get another film out. For my money, Hosoda hasn't yet made an outright masterpiece, but I'm convinced he'll do it eventually, so I always look forward to anything new from him.
 
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This sounds great. I really must get a move on and find time to watch Summer Wars.
 
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Admittedly, I think the only one of Hosoda's movies that I'd say I'm a huge fan of is Wolf Children - I still shake my fist at FUNimation when I remember that they didn't submit it for an Oscar nomination.

I thought that The Girl Who Leapt Through Time was good, but not great and Summer Wars kinda fell apart in the climax when I realised that I didn't know the rules of Koi-Koi. So I am looking forward to this new film, but hoping that Wolf Children is now his new standard.
 
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The climax in summers wars was just people saying koi, koi to me. It's Kinda un-believable because only the japs probably play it.
 
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GET THAT DELICIOUS SUPERFLAT IN MY EYEBALLS!
black1blade said:
The climax in summers wars was just people saying koi, koi to me. It's Kinda un-believable because only the japs probably play it.
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...seriously?
 
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As such things go, it didn't seem all that desperately complicated. If anything, I was more bothered by the fact that saving the world ultimately hinged on beating the computer in a couple of hands of a childrens' card game than any failure to fully comprehend the rules, or it being mostly specific to south-east asia.

I liked Summer Wars well enough the first time I saw it, but subsequent viewings have rather soured me on it.
 
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Love Hosoda's work, will definitely be keeping an eye on this.
 
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I like Summer Wars for its atmosphere; it's very familiar and nostalgic somehow if you have relatives like that. My favourite is definitely Wolf Children, though, and I'll be there for this new film the moment it's available!

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Professor Irony said:
As such things go, it didn't seem all that desperately complicated. If anything, I was more bothered by the fact that saving the world ultimately hinged on beating the computer in a couple of hands of a childrens' card game
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Years of watching Yu-Gi-Oh! kinda conditioned me to just accept that.
 
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Re: Mamoru Hosoda's latest film revealed: The Boy and The Be

Looked up bakemono on Wiki.

Obake (お化け?) and bakemono (化け物?) are a class of yōkai, preternatural creatures in Japanese folklore. Literally, the terms mean a thing that changes, referring to a state of transformation or shapeshifting.

A bakemono's true form may be an animal such as a fox (kitsune), a raccoon dog (tanuki), a badger (mujina), a transforming cat (bakeneko), the spirit of a plant—such as a kodama, or an inanimate object which may possess a soul in Shinto and other animistic traditions. Obake derived from household objects are often called tsukumogami.

A bakemono usually either disguises itself as a human or appears in a strange or terrifying form such as a hitotsume-kozō, an ōnyūdō, or a noppera-bō. In common usage, any bizarre apparition can be referred to as a bakemono or an obake whether or not it is believed to have some other form, making the terms roughly synonymous with yōkai.
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Looks like it might be a guy with furry ears and a tail, but who knows.

I suppose they could translate bakemono as "spirit beast" or "beast demon" in the subtitles/dub.
 
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Dannielle said:
The hype begins!
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As do the comparisons.

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