Mamoru HOSODA 細田守

The Boy And The Beast

バケモノの子

Nippon Animation   ³ 

Ren, an orphan boy living on the streets of Tokyo, finds the secret entrance to a parallel world inhabited by talking beasts. There, he becomes the apprentice of a sword fighter. Several years later, Ren finds a way back to the human world, and soon finds himself torn between the two worlds. Mamoru HOSODA’s latest masterpiece proves him to be one of the most important animation filmmakers of our time.

バケモノの子
Bakemono no ko

Japan 2015

120 minutes

Director
Mamoru HOSODA

Script
Mamoru HOSODA

About Mamoru HOSODA
細田守

Mamoru HOSODA, born in Toyama Prefecture in 1967, started his film career after graduating from Kanazawa Art College in 1991 as an animator for Toei Animation. In 1997, he directed the anime series GEGEGE NO KITARO. After directing his first feature-length film ONE PIECE: BARON OMATSURI AND THE SECRET ISLAND (2005), he joined the animation studio Madhouse, where he directed THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME (2006). In 2011, he co-founded Studio Chizu. He has since directed the multi-award-winning anime films WOLF CHILDREN (2012 / NC ’13), THE BOY AND THE BEAST (2015 / NC ’18) and MIRAI (2018 / NC ’19).