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The Boy and the Beast
Why this pick
Like Mirai, it turns a child’s everyday hurt and growth into a warm, visually imaginative journey, with playful fantasy and a tender focus on learning how to belong in a family.
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MOVIE2018 1h 38m JPN
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Why this pick
Its buoyant visual storytelling and fantasy rooted in ordinary adolescent life echo Mirai’s ability to make time, memory, and growing up feel both playful and deeply personal.
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
Its loose, affectionate snapshots of a Japanese family find humor and tenderness in sibling friction, parental imperfection, and the small domestic moments Mirai observes so vividly.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Kun is a boy born to an executive mother and an Architecture father. The family lives in a stepped house in Isogo-ku, Yokohama,Yokohama that Kun's father designed around a tree, where Kun spends his days playing with the family dog, Yukko, and his beloved toy train sets. When Kun is four, his sister Mirai, Japanese language for "future", is born, and he is happy at first when his mother returns home with her. But he soon grows jealous when his parents focus all their attention on her, and has to be restrained from hitting her with one of his toy trains. He lashes out first at his mother, and then at his father when he becomes a stay-at-home dad working from home while his mother returns to work.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Haru Kuroki
Miraï (voice)
Gen Hoshino
Father (voice)
Kumiko Aso
Mother (voice)
Koji Yakusho
Grandfather (voice)