Hosoda was partially inspired to write the script for Mirai after seeing his then-three-year-old son's first reactions to having a baby sister in his life. While initially only cautious of the newborn when meeting her for the first time, Hosoda's son threw a tantrum one day, jealous of the attention that his parents were giving his sister. Hosoda's curiosity with how his son reacted, and how he would adapt to being a big brother, prompted him to make the protagonist of Mirai four years old.
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Mirai
(2018)Mirai no Mirai 2
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Runtime | 1 hr 38 min |
Premiere: World | $28 756 961 May 16, 2018 |
USA | $812 794 |
Other countries | $27 944 167 |
Premiere: USA | $812 794 April 9, 2019 |
first day | $210 261 |
first weekend | $63 325 |
theaters | 780 |
rollout | 398 days |
Digital: World | April 19, 2019 |
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Also Known As | Mirai (Japan) |
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A young boy encounters a magical garden which enables him to travel through time and meet his relatives from different eras, with guidance by his younger sister from the future.Сast and Crew
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Critique: 25
Like Hayao Miyazaki, whose mantle Hosoda is often considered to be on an unofficial short list to pick up, Hosoda tells this child’s story at...
A crucial scene at a train station … is almost heartstopping, but the film is never so intimidating that it won’t charm audiences from K...
The fabric of the fantasy world depicted in the film lacks the cohesion of its central theme about appreciating one’s place in a family...
Mirai is admirable as a creative experiment by a popular director who’s demonstrably still restless.
What is it with this country? They don’t need the fatuous dimension-whizzing and CGI hyperbolism that is a growing part of western anima...
There’s enough wisdom to be found in this engaging tale for a trip to the theatre. Whether to take the whole family is up to parents to...
Mirai definitely puts Hosoda in the Japanese industry’s top league, showing a similar spirit of high-blown romanticism as Your Name (201...
The painstaking animation becomes more and more elaborate, culminating in a child’s-eye view of a bustling train station and a bullet train t...
Expands into a lyrical realm that is both very Japanese and entirely universal.
The latest gem from Japanese anime master Mamoru Hosoda concerns a little boy’s conflict with his baby sister. It may be the animator&rs...
It’s the work of a true auteur (in what feels like his most personal film yet) presented as innocuous family entertainment.
The film balances spiralling flights of fancy with glinting observations on parenting and family dynamics.
Merits comparison to works of similar relevance and poetic ambitions, like Shoplifters and Roma, masterworks that share its inquiries about familia...
This is a movie for patient viewers, but trust that you will be richly rewarded.
Tempering its flights of fancy with moments of whimsical humour and kid’s-eye realism, this thoughtful treatise on growing pains reveals ...
Mirai can be recommended to both adults and children…Those aged around eight and up may be amused to recognise aspects of their younger selves.
Hosoda and his team at Studio Chizu match the weighty narrative issues – parents in the audience would be well advised to bring a tissue...
Mirai is admirable as a creative experiment by a popular director who’s demonstrably still restless.
In the best possible way, "Mirai" feels like the dream of a very wise child.
Without any preamble, Kun’s courtyard refuge turns into a kind of magic zone where no-limits fantasy and recognizable reality unapologeticall...
There’s a lot of narrative jump-rope to get through, but it’s still enchanting and brave.
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Exploring the world through the prism of a child’s view and imagination. The picture will be interesting even for adults, there are a lot of things built on symbolism, associations, philosophy and family ties. This kind of design has always attracted attention, very cozy, discreet, in other words, very pleasing to the eye. Translated to English