Mirai Anime Film's English Dub Teaser Streamed
by Gokousahil November 09
2018
Fathom Events began
streaming a 30-second English-dubbed teaser for Mamoru
Hosoda's Mirai anime
film on Thursday.
Actress Victoria Grace (The
Last of Us Part II's Yara) announced earlier this
month that she is playing the title character. Other announced cast members
include John
Cho as the father, Rebecca Hall as the mother, and Daniel Dae Kim as the great-grandfather.
The English dub premiered at
Los Angeles' Animation is Film Festival on October 19. Anime
Limited debuted the film in theaters on November 2 and
November 4.
GKIDS and Fathom Events will screen the
film in 700 U.S. theaters on November 29, December 5, and December 8.
Screenings on Thursday, November 29 at 8:00 p.m. and Wednesday, December 5 at
7:00 p.m. will be English-subtitled, while screenings on Saturday, December 8
at 12:55 p.m. will be English-dubbed. GKIDSwill also hold its
own theatrical release in the United States on November 30.
International sales banner Charades represented the film at
Cannes in 2017, and has sold distribution rights to GKIDS in
the United States, MK2 Mile End in Canada, Anime
Limited in the United Kingdom, and Madman Entertainment in Australia and New Zealand.
The 100-minute
film opened at #2 at the box office in Japan on July 20. The film had
its world premiere in May at this year's Directors' Fortnight, an
independent section held in parallel to the Cannes Film Festival. The film
also screened in competition at Annecy in June.
The film's
story centers around a family living in a small house in an obscure corner of a
certain city — in particular, the family's spoiled four-year-old boy Kun-chan.
When Kun-chan gets a little sister named Mirai, he feels that his new sister
stole his parents' love from him, and is overwhelmed by many experiences he
undergoes for the first time in his life. In the midst of it all, he meets an
older version of Mirai, who has come from the future.
Hosoda directed the film at his Studio Chizu, and is also credited as
scriptwriter and for the original story. Hiroyuki Aoyama (animation director
of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Summer Wars, and The Boy and The Beast) and Ayako Hata (key animator on the same
films) returned for this new film as animation directors. Yohei Takamatsu and Takashi Omori, who Hosoda had
previously worked with on The
Boy and The Beast, returned as art directors. Producer Yuichiro Saito returned from
Hosoda's earlier films.
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