Mamoru Hosada, the man behind the great films, “The Girl Who Leapt Through Time”, “Summer Wars”, and “Wolf Children” is taking on the big screen once more with a new film “expected to come” in May 2018. Announced on Tuesday in the entertainment news magazine Variety, the film is said to be titled “Mirai.”
There is no list for the cast and staff to work on the film, but, it has been noted that Hosada himself will be directing the film at Studio Chizu, a studio which he established to work on the production of “Wolf Children” and “The Boy and The Beast.”
In a separate interview with the entertainment news magazine, Hosoda shared further details in regards to the theme and inspiration behind the film. He stated that in continuation of the themes of “youth” in “The Girl Who Leapt Through Time”, “family” in “Summer Wars”, “motherhood” in Wolf Children, and “fatherhood” in “The Boy and The Beast”, “Mirai” will be taking on the theme of “youth” in “The Girl Who Leapt Through Time”, “family” in “Summer Wars”, “motherhood” in Wolf Children, and “fatherhood” in “The Boy and The Beast”, “Mirai” will be taking on the theme of
The film itself is described as a fantasy tale that centers on a 4-year-old boy and his struggle in coping with his little sister being a new addition to the family. One day the boy finds that the mysterious garden in the backyard of his home has become a time travelling gateway.
From this gateway he ends up travelling back in time and ends up in periods wherein he encounters his mother as a young child and his great grandfather is a young man. Through his time travelling adventures, he gains a new perspective on things and learns what it truly means to be a big brother.
According to Hosada, the title of the film, “Mirai”, which actually translates to future, is not only the name of the little sister in the film but is the name of his eldest daughter as well. He discussed on how the film is inspired from his own experience as a father and how it echoes his real-life experience of his eldest child feeling that his new sibling “stole her parents, which made her ferociously jealous.”
He also expressed that while he mainly wrote the screenplay alone, he was not adverse to the advice of producers.
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Source: AnimeNewsNetwork