{"id":25875,"date":"2018-11-14T22:28:53","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T22:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=25875"},"modified":"2018-11-14T22:28:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T22:28:53","slug":"mirai-of-the-future-review-an-enchanting-story-of-childhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/mirai-of-the-future-review-an-enchanting-story-of-childhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Mirai of the future review: An enchanting story of childhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Anime genius Mamoru Hosoda portrays, in his latest picture, the beauty within day-to-day life through a child\u2019s eyes.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>There is a time in every sibling\u2019s life where envy is deeply endured, time is temporarily interrupted and attention is immensely craved. This is the inevitable moment in which childhood meets maturity- that is depicted so poignantly and innocently by director Mamoru Hosoda.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mirai &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MamoruHosoda?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MamoruHosoda<\/a>&#39;s latest feature &#8211; selected at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Quinzaine?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Quinzaine<\/a> des R\u00e9alisateurs!! First World Premiere of a Japanese Animation ever in Cannes! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cannes2018?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Cannes2018<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JS6OUk7V69\">pic.twitter.com\/JS6OUk7V69<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mirai (@Mirai_Hosoda) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mirai_Hosoda\/status\/986182073915461632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 17, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In this charming film, Kun (Moka Kamishiraishi) a 4-year-old boy who is accustomed to the undivided attention of his parents, experiences the challenging phase of becoming a brother when his baby sister, Mirai, arrives home. Kun\u2019s furious tantrums lead him to experience the visit of three fantasised characters like an early Christmas Carol, which include his recently deceased great-grandfather, his parents as children, his dog reincarnated as a human, who seems more like a Steven Tyler wanna-be than anything else and Mirai as a teenager.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mamoru Hosoda for Mirai movie at Cannes festival<br \/>\u00a9\ufe0fLaurent Koffel<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/cannes2018?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#cannes2018<\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mirai?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#mirai<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mamoruhosoda?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#mamoruhosoda<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/festivaldecannes?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#festivaldecannes<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FestivaldeCannes2018?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FestivaldeCannes2018<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ncYNtbHYQj\">pic.twitter.com\/ncYNtbHYQj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Laurent Koffel (@laurentkoffel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/laurentkoffel\/status\/997061585779773440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Hosoda eloquently captures the beauty of the mundane moments of day-to-day life, turning into the most decisive and meaningful; there is a moment when Kun learns how to ride a bike for the first time thanks to the advice of his great-grandfather which becomes intensely touching. However, the film does carry this subtle touch of loneliness due to the remembrance of the passage of time.<\/p>\n<p>Mirai of the future definitely elevates Hosoda to one of the masters of anime at the moment. The film\u2019s soundtrack is simply outstanding and it continuously portrays a nostalgic journey through childhood. I was completely overwhelmed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Words: Raquel Pacheco | Subbing: Matilde Moro<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anime genius Mamoru Hosoda portrays, in his latest picture, the beauty within day-to-day life through a child\u2019s eyes. There is a time in every sibling\u2019s life where envy is deeply endured, time is temporarily interrupted&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":25885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10,33,149,42,54],"tags":[496,1299,2361,3950,5258],"class_list":["post-25875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-arts","category-culture","category-culture-travel","category-entertainment","category-film-2","tag-anime","tag-childhood","tag-film","tag-mamoru-hosoda","tag-review"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}