Mirai - The girl from the future
| Anime movie | |
|---|---|
| title | Mirai - The girl from the future |
| Original title | 未来 の ミ ラ イ |
| transcription | Mirai no Mirai |
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| Lettering | |
| Country of production |
 Japan
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| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 2018 |
| Studio | Studio Chizu |
| length | 98 minutes |
| genre | Fantasy |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Mamoru Hosoda |
| idea | Mamoru Hosoda |
| script | Mamoru Hosoda |
| production |
Nozomu Takahashi , Yūichirō Saitō , Takuya Itō, Yūichi Adachi , Genki Kawamura |
| music |
Masakatsu Takagi , Tatsurō Yamashita (opening & main theme song) |
Mirai - The girl from the future (original title: 未来 の ミ ラ イ Mirai no Mirai ) is an anime film by Mamoru Hosoda from Studio Chizu . The film had its official premiere on May 16, 2018 at Directors' Fortnight as part of the Cannes Film Festival , before it was shown in Japanese cinemas on July 20 of the same year .
Performances followed in 2018 in Australia , New Zealand , the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, as well as in the United States and Canada . Mirai received several nominations, including in the category Best Animated Film at the Golden Globe Awards 2019 and the Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2019 as well as at the Annie Awards and the Art Cinema Awards of the Hamburg Film Festival .
Mamoru Hosoda developed the film single-handedly and did not work with his long-time cast, which he justified, among other things, with the fact that the film is based on his children, is very personal and therefore wanted to create an environment that was as realistic as possible. Mirai - The Girl from the Future is shown from the perspective of four-year-old Kun, who was the baby of the family until his little sister Mirai was born and who believes that his parents have lost all interest in him. Only when, through a visit to the older Mirai , he arrives in a world in which the past , present and future merge, does Kun learn what it means to be a big brother.
action
Kun was born the son of a manager and an architect . The family lives with their dog Yukko in a multi-level house in Isogo-ku that his father built around a tree , where Kun plays most of the time with the family dog and his toy train . When Kun was four years old, his little sister Mirai - Japanese for "future" - was born. At first, Kun is happy that his mother is coming home with her, but he soon develops jealousy towards his little sister, as he has the impression that his parents are mainly focused on her, and hits his little sister with a toy train Face. He initially takes out his anger on his mother, and later also on his father, who moves his work home while the mother goes to work away again.
One day when he runs into the garden out of anger, he meets a mysterious man who introduces himself as the “prince of the house”. When the man complains all the time that his parents lost their interest in him when Kun was born, he realizes that the man is Yukko, the dog who has assumed a human form. Despite the fact that Yukko has assumed a human form, Kun finds the dog's tail and pulls it off. After he "infects" his tail himself, Kun turns into a dog. Later, visibly calmed down, Kun tells his parents how much fun he had running as a dog through the garden and transfers Yukko's feelings to himself.
The girls' festival is approaching and the family begins putting up traditional dolls and wishing Mirai luck. However, at the end of the festival, the family failed to put the dolls away again. Once again frustrated that his parents are taking care of his little sister again, he runs into the garden again, where he meets a girl of middle school age and says that she is Mirai from the future. She says that she traveled back in time to check whether the dolls from the family celebration were put away, as with each passing day a year has to pass before Mirai can later marry. The future Mirai manages to pack away the dolls together with Kun and the anthropomorphic dog Yukko.
Kun's grandmother shows him pictures of his mother when she, like him, was four years old. However, he is still aggressive towards his mother. He storms into the garden one more time, from where he travels 20 years into the past and meets a little girl whom he identifies as his mother based on pictures. She is angry with her mother for not wanting to buy her a cat as a pet. At home, Kun's four-year-old mother starts spreading toys on the floor and food on the table. When his mother's mother comes home, Kun is urged to leave the house through the back door. Nevertheless, Kun hears how his mother is insulted by her mother and she cries hysterically. He returns to his time and manages to show his mother sympathy , but Kun complains and weeps about every little thing.
Kun is given a bike with training wheels , but after seeing older children on their bikes in the park, he wants to learn to ride without training wheels. His father tries his best to help Kun, but he does not seem to be able to keep his balance . Back at home, Kun runs into the garden again and ends up in a workshop in rural Japan that existed several decades ago. A young man with an injured leg introduces Kun to many of the horses that live near the workshop and takes the visibly frightened Kun on a ride and later lets him ride on his motorcycle . Back in his timeline, Kun manages to ride a bicycle based on his past experiences. His grandmother shows Kun more pictures and explains that this man is his great-grandfather, who worked on motorcycles when he was young, but who recently passed away.
One day the family decides to go on a day trip. However, Kun is again desperate because he doesn't fit into his favorite yellow pants. He runs away and hides. When he emerges from his hiding place, he finds that his entire family has left. In the garden he finds a train station where a train is approaching. An older youth warns Kun not to get on the train, but Kun ignores this warning. The train takes Kun to Tokyo station , where he panics because he is all alone. He finds a train attendant who asks Kun to give his parents 'names so that he can reach them, but Kun discovers that he cannot remember his parents' names. He takes Kun to a kite-shaped express kit . The companion says that he has to go to the lonely land (" Lonely Land ") if nobody picks him up at a train stop. He looks like a baby looking like Mirai, tries to get on the train and saves her, pleading not to be put on the train. From this point on, Kun realizes that he is Mirai's older brother, so that the train attendant can get in touch with her. The baby disappears and the older Mirai then appears and brings Kun back home with both of them flying in the air. They land on a tree that tells the story of the family members: Kun sees that his father was not physically strong enough to ride a bicycle, that Yukko left his mother behind to become a pet, that his mother stopped loving cats when she saw a stray cat kill a bird , a fight during World War II that injured his great-grandfather's leg and the way he went to be able to marry his great-grandmother. Kun also sees the future and realizes that the young person at the train station was his future self. Having arrived in his own timeline, Kun decides to go on the excursion without his yellow pants and makes up with his parents and his little sister.
production
On October 24, 2017, Studio Chizu secured the name Mirai no Mirai as a brand . This includes, among other things, future DVD and Blu-ray releases, potential mobile games and various merchandising articles. The English-language entertainment magazine Variety reported in May of the same year that director Mamoru Hosoda was in the Chizu studio to work on his latest film, the working title of which was Mirai at the time.
For conceptual reasons, Hosoda did not work as usual with his long-term partner Anri Jojo , but hired the architect Makoto Tanijiri for this project. The director justified this step with the fact that the characters in the film are based on his children and he therefore wanted someone by his side who could implement the cinematic environment such as the house, the express train and the picture books as realistically as possible.
The couple Hiroyuki Aoyama and Ayako Hata were involved as animation supervisors in the film project, which was the first involvement of a married couple in an anime film since Taro the Dragon Boy from 1980. Mirai is the second film Mamoru Hosoda made without the support of Satoko Okudera . He justified this with the fact that the film was inspired by his children and was therefore a personal concern. Compared to his earlier works, Hosoda worked more with CGI animations at Mirai .
publication
movie theater
The official film premiere was celebrated by Mirai - The Girl from the Future during Directors' Fortnight as part of the Cannes Film Festival on May 16, 2018. As early as December 2017, it was announced that the film would be shown in 57 countries worldwide, including the United States and France .
This was followed by several screenings at the Annecy International Animation Festival, where the film was also in competition for the Cristal Award , and at the Sydney Film Festival . On July 20, 2018, the animated film was shown all over Japan .
On October 13, 2018, Mirai was screened during the London Film Festival , followed by a nationwide screening in the United Kingdom on November 2 of the same year in original language and two days later in English. On October 19, 2018, the animated film was shown for the first time in the United States at the Animation Is Film Festival in Los Angeles , before the film was shown nationwide in more than 700 theaters on November 29.
In the meantime, other broadcasts have taken place in Ukraine , Russia , Hungary , Southeast Asia , Italy , Singapore , Taiwan and Hong Kong .
In Germany , the film was shown in the original language for the first time on September 28, 2018 as part of the Hamburg Film Festival . In February, the anime publisher Kazé secured the rights to the film. The film will be shown for the first time on May 28, 2019 as part of the Kazé Anime Nights 2019 and then start regularly in theaters from May 30, 2019. The premiere of the German synchronization will take place on March 21, 2019 after a reading of the novel at the Leipzig Book Fair as part of the reading festival “Leipzig Reads”.
synchronization
The German synchronization was created at VSI Synchron under the dialogue direction of Fritz Rott .
| role | Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Kun |
Moka Kamishiraishi Tasuku Hatanaka (youth) |
Peggy Pollow Linus Drews (Adolescent) |
| Mirai |
Haru Kuroki Kaede Hondo (toddler) |
Julia Meynen Anja Rybiczka (toddler) |
| Kun's father | Gen Hoshino | Fabian Oscar Vienna |
| Kun's mother |
Kumiko Aso Sakura Saiga (young) |
Nadine Heidenreich Moira May (young) |
| Mysterious man | Mitsuo Yoshihara | Florian Clyde |
| Kun's grandmother | Yoshiko Miyazaki | Nina Herting |
| Kun's grandfather | Koji Yakusho | Hans Bayer |
| Great grandfather | Masaharu Fukuyama | Matti Klemm |
reception
Grossing results
Worldwide played the girl from the future - Mirai been nearly 24.1 million US dollars one. In Japan the film grossed just under $ 3.6 million on the opening weekend, in Hungary a little more than $ 2,500. In the United States , the film grossed just over $ 670,000 in its first week of showing.
Reviews
Phil Hoad wrote in his Guardian review that Mirai brings director Mamoru Hosoda into the elite class of the Japanese film industry. The film shows a similar romance as the world success Your Name. - Yesterday, today and forever , although Mirai does not show the same narrative skills as Makoto Shinkai's work from 2016.
Awards and nominations
| year | Award | category | For | result | swell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Annecy International Animation Festival | Feature Film (Crystal Award) | Mirai - The girl from the future | Nominated | |
| Hamburg Film Festival | Art Cinema Award | Nominated | |||
| Satellite Awards | Best film (animated film or real / animated film) | Nominated | |||
| Sitges Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya | Best movie | Won | |||
| Animation Is Film Festival | Best movie | Nominated | |||
| Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards | Best animated feature film | Nominated | |||
| 2019 | Academy Awards | Best animated film | Nominated | ||
| Japanese Academy Awards | Best animated film | Won | |||
| Golden Globe Awards | Best animated film | Nominated | |||
| Critics' Choice Movie Awards | Best animated feature film | Nominated | |||
| Annie Award | Best Animated Independent Feature | Won | |||
| Outstanding Achievement for Writing in an Animated Feature Production | Nominated | ||||
| The Anime Awards | Best movie | Nominated |
Implementations
In April 2018 it was announced that Mamoru Hosoda was working on a novel based on the film and will be released in three versions on different labels, one each on June 15, June 30 and July 1, 2018. Yen Press secured the rights for a publication in the English-speaking area. Kazé Germany licensed the novel and plans to publish it in two editions, either soft or hardcover, on April 4, 2019.
Web links
- Official Website (Japanese)
- Official website (German)
- Mirai in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Mirai at Anime News Network (English)
- Mirai at rotten tomatoes (English)
- Mirai at Metacritic (English)
Individual evidence
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